Mycobacterium tuberculosis WhiB3 maintains redox homeostasis by regulating virulence lipid anabolism to modulate macrophage response.

abstract：:Ronald Ross and George Macdonald are credited with developing a mathematical model of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission. A systematic historical review suggests that several mathematicians and scientists contributed to development of the Ross-Macdonald model over a period of 70 years. Ross developed two different m...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Smith DL,Battle KE,Hay SI,Barker CM,Scott TW,McKenzie FE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen causing a wide spectrum of nosocomial and community-associated infections with high morbidity and mortality. S. aureus generates a large number of virulence factors whose timing and expression levels are precisely tuned by regulatory proteins and RNAs. The aptitude of ba...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Felden B,Vandenesch F,Bouloc P,Romby P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax can cause severe malaria, however its pathogenesis is poorly understood. In contrast to P. falciparum, circulating vivax parasitemia is low, with minimal apparent sequestration in endothelium-lined microvasculature, and pathogenesis thought unrelated to parasite biomass. However, the relationships bet...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Barber BE,William T,Grigg MJ,Parameswaran U,Piera KA,Price RN,Yeo TW,Anstey NM

更新日期：2015-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine protease cascades regulate important insect immune responses namely melanization and Toll pathway activation. An important component of these cascades are clip-domain serine protease homologs (cSPHs), which are non-catalytic, but essential for activating the enzyme prophenoloxidase (PPO) in the melanization res...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： El Moussawi L,Nakhleh J,Kamareddine L,Osta MA

更新日期：2019-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is a fundamental epigenetic modification that regulates gene expression and represses endogenous transposons and invading DNA viruses. As a counter-defense, the geminiviruses encode proteins that inhibit methylation and transcriptional gene silencing (TGS). Some geminiviruses have acquired a betasatell...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yang X,Xie Y,Raja P,Li S,Wolf JN,Shen Q,Bisaro DM,Zhou X

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural flexibility or 'breathing' of the envelope (E) protein of flaviviruses allows virions to sample an ensemble of conformations at equilibrium. The molecular basis and functional consequences of virus conformational dynamics are poorly understood. Here, we identified a single mutation at residue 198 (T198F...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Goo L,VanBlargan LA,Dowd KA,Diamond MS,Pierson TC

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Since Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV or human herpesvirus 8) was first identified in Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) lesions of HIV-infected individuals with AIDS, the basic biological understanding of KSHV has progressed remarkably. However, the absence of a proper animal model for KSHV continues to impede direc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chang H,Wachtman LM,Pearson CB,Lee JS,Lee HR,Lee SH,Vieira J,Mansfield KG,Jung JU

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectin-like bacteriocins consist of tandem monocot mannose-binding domains and display a genus-specific killing activity. Here we show that pyocin L1, a novel member of this family from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, targets susceptible strains of this species through recognition of the common polysaccharide antigen (CPA) of...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： McCaughey LC,Grinter R,Josts I,Roszak AW,Waløen KI,Cogdell RJ,Milner J,Evans T,Kelly S,Tucker NP,Byron O,Smith B,Walker D

更新日期：2014-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Betanodaviruses cause massive mortality in marine fish species with viral nervous necrosis. The structure of a T = 3 Grouper nervous necrosis virus-like particle (GNNV-LP) is determined by the ab initio method with non-crystallographic symmetry averaging at 3.6 Å resolution. Each capsid protein (CP) shows three major ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen NC,Yoshimura M,Guan HH,Wang TY,Misumi Y,Lin CC,Chuankhayan P,Nakagawa A,Chan SI,Tsukihara T,Chen TY,Chen CJ

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a pandemic. Critical to the rapid evaluation of vaccines and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 is the development of tractable animal models to understand the adaptive immune response to the virus. To this end, the use of ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hassert M,Geerling E,Stone ET,Steffen TL,Feldman MS,Dickson AL,Class J,Richner JM,Brien JD,Pinto AK

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In many bacteria, inhibition of cell wall synthesis leads to cell death and lysis. The pathways and enzymes that mediate cell lysis after exposure to cell wall-acting antibiotics (e.g. beta lactams) are incompletely understood, but the activities of enzymes that degrade the cell wall ('autolysins') are thought to be c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dörr T,Davis BM,Waldor MK

更新日期：2015-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:NKT cells play an important role in autoimmune diseases, tumor surveillance, and infectious diseases, providing in most cases protection against infection. NKT cells are reactive to CD1d presented glycolipid antigens. They can modulate immune responses by promoting the secretion of type 1, type 2, or immune regulatory...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Karmakar S,Bhaumik SK,Paul J,De T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that in wild ecosystems viruses are often plant mutualists, whereas agroecosystems favour pathogenicity. We seek evidence for virus pathogenicity in wild ecosystems through the analysis of plant-virus coevolution, which requires a negative effect of infection on the host fitness. We focus on the i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Montes N,Alonso-Blanco C,García-Arenal F

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas syringae acetyltransferase HopZ1a is delivered into host cells by the type III secretion system to promote bacterial growth. However, in the model plant host Arabidopsis thaliana, HopZ1a activity results in an effector-triggered immune response (ETI) that limits bacterial proliferation. HopZ1a-triggere...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bastedo DP,Khan M,Martel A,Seto D,Kireeva I,Zhang J,Masud W,Millar D,Lee JY,Lee AH,Gong Y,Santos-Severino A,Guttman DS,Desveaux D

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that secretes an array of immune-modulatory molecules, including secondary metabolites (SMs), which contribute to enhancing fungal fitness and growth within the mammalian host. Gliotoxin (GT) is a SM that interferes with the function and recruitment of innate i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ries LNA,Pardeshi L,Dong Z,Tan K,Steenwyk JL,Colabardini AC,Ferreira Filho JA,de Castro PA,Silva LP,Preite NW,Almeida F,de Assis LJ,Dos Santos RAC,Bowyer P,Bromley M,Owens RA,Doyle S,Demasi M,Hernández DCR,Netto LES

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 buds form infected cells in an immature, non-infectious form. Maturation into an infectious virion requires proteolytic cleavage of the Gag polyprotein at five positions, leading to a dramatic change in virus morphology. Immature virions contain an incomplete spherical shell where Gag is arranged with the N-term...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Marco A,Müller B,Glass B,Riches JD,Kräusslich HG,Briggs JA

更新日期：2010-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs play an important role in the interplay between bacterial pathogens and host cells, participating as host defense mechanisms, as well as exploited by bacteria to subvert host cellular functions. Here, we show that microRNAs modulate infection by Shigella flexneri, a major causative agent of bacillary dysente...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sunkavalli U,Aguilar C,Silva RJ,Sharan M,Cruz AR,Tawk C,Maudet C,Mano M,Eulalio A

更新日期：2017-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut microbiota facilitate many aspects of human health and development, but dysbiotic microbiota can promote hyperplasia and inflammation and contribute to human diseases such as cancer. Human patients infected with the gastric cancer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori have altered microbiota; however, whether dysb...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Jones TA,Hernandez DZ,Wong ZC,Wandler AM,Guillemin K

更新日期：2017-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito-borne flaviviruses are among the most significant arboviral pathogens worldwide. Vaccinations and mosquito population control programs remain the most reliable means for flavivirus disease prevention, and live attenuated viruses remain one of the most attractive flavivirus vaccine platforms. Some live attenua...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tsetsarkin KA,Liu G,Kenney H,Bustos-Arriaga J,Hanson CT,Whitehead SS,Pletnev AG

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in vaccination has been poorly investigated. We have reported that vaccination with ex vivo-generated dendritic-cells (DC) loaded with HIV-lipopeptides (LIPO-5-DC vaccine) in HIV-infected patients was well tolerated and highly immunogenic. These responses and their relation to vi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brezar V,Ruffin N,Richert L,Surenaud M,Lacabaratz C,Palucka K,Thiébaut R,Banchereau J,Levy Y,Seddiki N

更新日期：2015-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human pegivirus (HPgV), formerly GBV-C, are the only known human viruses in the Hepacivirus and Pegivirus genera, respectively, of the family Flaviviridae. We present the discovery of a second pegivirus, provisionally designated human pegivirus 2 (HPgV-2), by next-generation sequencing of p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Berg MG,Lee D,Coller K,Frankel M,Aronsohn A,Cheng K,Forberg K,Marcinkus M,Naccache SN,Dawson G,Brennan C,Jensen DM,Hackett J Jr,Chiu CY

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is a bacterial pathogen that colonizes the chitinous exoskeleton of zooplankton as well as the human gastrointestinal tract. Colonization of these different niches involves an N-acetylglucosamine binding protein (GbpA) that has been reported to mediate bacterial attachment to both marine chitin and mam...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wong E,Vaaje-Kolstad G,Ghosh A,Hurtado-Guerrero R,Konarev PV,Ibrahim AF,Svergun DI,Eijsink VG,Chatterjee NS,van Aalten DM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a widespread protein secretion apparatus used by Gram-negative bacteria to deliver toxic effector proteins into adjacent bacterial or host cells. Here, we uncovered a role in interbacterial competition for the two T6SSs encoded by the marine pathogen Vibrio alginolyticus. Using c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Salomon D,Klimko JA,Trudgian DC,Kinch LN,Grishin NV,Mirzaei H,Orth K

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Next to the two-component and quorum sensing systems, cell-surface signaling (CSS) has been recently identified as an important regulatory system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. CSS systems sense signals from outside the cell and transmit them into the cytoplasm. They generally consist of a TonB-dependent outer membrane re...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Llamas MA,van der Sar A,Chu BC,Sparrius M,Vogel HJ,Bitter W

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice tungro disease is caused by synergistic interaction of an RNA picorna-like virus Rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV) and a DNA pararetrovirus Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV). It is spread by insects owing to an RTSV-encoded transmission factor. RTBV has evolved a ribosome shunt mechanism to initiate translati...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pooggin MM,Rajeswaran R,Schepetilnikov MV,Ryabova LA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA viruses typically occur in genetically diverse populations due to their error-prone genome replication. Genetic diversity is thought to be important in allowing RNA viruses to explore sequence space, facilitating adaptation to changing environments and hosts. Some arboviruses that infect both a mosquito vector and...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Forrester NL,Guerbois M,Seymour RL,Spratt H,Weaver SC

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To cause infections microbes need to evade host defense systems, one of these being the evolutionarily old and important arm of innate immunity, the alternative pathway of complement. It can attack all kinds of targets and is tightly controlled in plasma and on host cells by plasma complement regulator factor H (FH). ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Meri T,Amdahl H,Lehtinen MJ,Hyvärinen S,McDowell JV,Bhattacharjee A,Meri S,Marconi R,Goldman A,Jokiranta TS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) reduces HIV-associated morbidities and mortalities but cannot cure the infection. Given the difficulty of eradicating HIV-1, a functional cure for HIV-infected patients appears to be a more reachable short-term goal. We identified 14 HIV patients (post-treatment controllers [P...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sáez-Cirión A,Bacchus C,Hocqueloux L,Avettand-Fenoel V,Girault I,Lecuroux C,Potard V,Versmisse P,Melard A,Prazuck T,Descours B,Guergnon J,Viard JP,Boufassa F,Lambotte O,Goujard C,Meyer L,Costagliola D,Venet A,Pancin

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of liver disease worldwide. The HCV RNA genome is translated into a single polyprotein. Most of the cleavage sites in the non-structural (NS) polyprotein region are processed by the NS3/NS4A serine protease. The vital NS2-NS3 cleavage is catalyzed by the NS2 autopro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Isken O,Langerwisch U,Jirasko V,Rehders D,Redecke L,Ramanathan H,Lindenbach BD,Bartenschlager R,Tautz N

更新日期：2015-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The SUPPRESSOR OF rps4-RLD1 (SRFR1) gene was identified based on enhanced AvrRps4-triggered resistance in the naturally susceptible Arabidopsis accession RLD. No other phenotypic effects were recorded, and the extent of SRFR1 involvement in regulating effector-triggered immunity was unknown. Here we show that mutation...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kim SH,Gao F,Bhattacharjee S,Adiasor JA,Nam JC,Gassmann W

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00