Non-human primate model of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection.

abstract：:Cardioviruses, including encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) and the human Saffold virus, are small non-enveloped viruses belonging to the Picornaviridae, a large family of positive-sense RNA [(+)RNA] viruses. All (+)RNA viruses remodel intracellular membranes into unique structures for viral genome replication. Accumul...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dorobantu CM,Albulescu L,Harak C,Feng Q,van Kampen M,Strating JR,Gorbalenya AE,Lohmann V,van der Schaar HM,van Kuppeveld FJ

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus (IAV) infection can be severe or even lethal in toddlers, the elderly and patients with certain medical conditions. Infection of apparently healthy individuals nonetheless accounts for many severe disease cases and deaths, suggesting that viruses with increased pathogenicity co-circulate with pandemi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vasilijevic J,Zamarreño N,Oliveros JC,Rodriguez-Frandsen A,Gómez G,Rodriguez G,Pérez-Ruiz M,Rey S,Barba I,Pozo F,Casas I,Nieto A,Falcón A

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:For many viruses, one or two proteins allow cell attachment and entry, which occurs through the plasma membrane or following endocytosis at low pH. In contrast, vaccinia virus (VACV) enters cells by both neutral and low pH routes; four proteins mediate cell attachment and twelve that are associated in a membrane compl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Laliberte JP,Weisberg AS,Moss B

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infects about 50% of the US population, is the leading infectious cause of birth defects, and is considered the most important infectious agent in transplant recipients. The virus infects many cell types in vivo and in vitro. While previous studies have identified several cellular proteins...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li Q,Wilkie AR,Weller M,Liu X,Cohen JI

更新日期：2015-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartonellae are Gram-negative facultative-intracellular pathogens that use a type-IV-secretion system (T4SS) to translocate a cocktail of Bartonella effector proteins (Beps) into host cells to modulate diverse cellular functions. BepC was initially reported to act in concert with BepF in triggering major actin cytoske...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Marlaire S,Dehio C

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To replicate, HIV-1 capitalizes on endogenous cellular activation pathways resulting in recruitment of key host transcription factors to its viral enhancer. RNA interference has been a powerful tool for blocking key checkpoints in HIV-1 entry into cells. Here we apply RNA interference to HIV-1 transcription in primary...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ranjbar S,Tsytsykova AV,Lee SK,Rajsbaum R,Falvo JV,Lieberman J,Shankar P,Goldfeld AE

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebolaviruses, highly lethal zoonotic pathogens, possess longer genomes than most other non-segmented negative-strand RNA viruses due in part to long 5' and 3' untranslated regions (UTRs) present in the seven viral transcriptional units. To date, specific functions have not been assigned to these UTRs. With reporter as...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shabman RS,Hoenen T,Groseth A,Jabado O,Binning JM,Amarasinghe GK,Feldmann H,Basler CF

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of the determinants of pathogen reservoir potential is central to understand disease emergence. It has been proposed that host lifespan is one such determinant: short-lived hosts will invest less in costly defenses against pathogens, so that they will be more susceptible to infection, more competent as ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hily JM,García A,Moreno A,Plaza M,Wilkinson MD,Fereres A,Fraile A,García-Arenal F

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005822.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Abdelrahman Y,Ouellette SP,Belland RJ,Cox JV

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii and Hammondia hammondi are closely-related coccidian intracellular parasites that differ in their ability to cause disease in animal and (likely) humans. The role of the host response in these phenotypic differences is not known and to address this we performed a transcriptomic analysis of a monocyte...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wong ZS,Sokol-Borrelli SL,Olias P,Dubey JP,Boyle JP

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase (RT) is the target for the majority of anti-HIV-1 drugs. As with all anti-AIDS treatments, continued success of RT inhibitors is persistently disrupted by the occurrence of resistance mutations. To explore latent resistance mechanisms potentially accessible to therapeutically challenged HIV-1 vir...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Galilee M,Alian A

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis is an ancient mechanism central to both tissue homeostasis and immune defense. Both the identity of the receptors that mediate bacterial phagocytosis and the nature of the interactions between phagocytosis and other defense mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we report that Croquemort (Crq), a Drosophila mem...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Guillou A,Troha K,Wang H,Franc NC,Buchon N

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Several naked virus species, including members of the Picornaviridae family, have recently been described to escape their host cells and spread infection via enclosure in extracellular vesicles (EV). EV are 50-300 nm sized lipid membrane-enclosed particles produced by all cells that are broadly recognized for playing ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： van der Grein SG,Defourny KAY,Rabouw HH,Galiveti CR,Langereis MA,Wauben MHM,Arkesteijn GJA,van Kuppeveld FJM,Nolte-'t Hoen ENM

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses persist indefinitely in their host through complex and poorly defined interactions that mediate latent, chronic or productive states of infection. Human cytomegalovirus (CMV or HCMV), a ubiquitous β-herpesvirus, coordinates the expression of two viral genes, UL135 and UL138, which have opposing roles in ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Buehler J,Zeltzer S,Reitsma J,Petrucelli A,Umashankar M,Rak M,Zagallo P,Schroeder J,Terhune S,Goodrum F

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of a highly variable RNA plant virus was considered to determine the range of virulence substitutions, the evolutionary pathways to virulence, and whether intraspecific diversity modulates virulence pathways and propensity. In all, 114 isolates representative of the genetic and geographic diversity of Ri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pinel-Galzi A,Rakotomalala M,Sangu E,Sorho F,Kanyeka Z,Traoré O,Sérémé D,Poulicard N,Rabenantoandro Y,Séré Y,Konaté G,Ghesquière A,Hébrard E,Fargette D

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 Vpu protein is expressed from a bi-cistronic message late in the viral life cycle. It functions during viral assembly to maximise infectious virus release by targeting CD4 for proteosomal degradation and counteracting the antiviral protein tetherin (BST2/CD317). Single genome analysis of vpu repertoires thro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pickering S,Hué S,Kim EY,Reddy S,Wolinsky SM,Neil SJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the importance of humoral immunity to malaria has been established, factors that control antibody production are poorly understood. Follicular helper T cells (Tfh cells) are pivotal for generating high-affinity, long-lived antibody responses. While it has been proposed that expansion of antigen-specific Tfh c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Figueiredo MM,Costa PAC,Diniz SQ,Henriques PM,Kano FS,Tada MS,Pereira DB,Soares IS,Martins-Filho OA,Jankovic D,Gazzinelli RT,Antonelli LRDV

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Various bacterial toxins circumvent host defenses through overproduction of cAMP. In a previous study, we showed that edema factor (EF), an adenylate cyclase from Bacillus anthracis, disrupts endocytic recycling mediated by the small GTPase Rab11. As a result, cargo proteins such as cadherins fail to reach inter-cellu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Guichard A,Jain P,Moayeri M,Schwartz R,Chin S,Zhu L,Cruz-Moreno B,Liu JZ,Aguilar B,Hollands A,Leppla SH,Nizet V,Bier E

更新日期：2017-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface recognition and penetration are critical steps in the infection cycle of many plant pathogenic fungi. In Magnaporthe oryzae, cAMP signaling is involved in surface recognition and pathogenesis. Deletion of the MAC1 adenylate cyclase gene affected appressorium formation and plant infection. In this study, we use...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhou X,Zhang H,Li G,Shaw B,Xu JR

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of the vascular system by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) occurs during bacterial dissemination in the body or in blood-borne infections. Type 3 secretion system (T3SS) toxins from Pa induce a massive retraction when injected into endothelial cells. Here, we addressed the role of type 2 secretion system (T2SS) e...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Golovkine G,Faudry E,Bouillot S,Voulhoux R,Attrée I,Huber P

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit hemorrhagic disease, first described in China in 1984, causes hemorrhagic necrosis of the liver. Its etiological agent, rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), belongs to the Lagovirus genus in the family Caliciviridae. The detailed molecular structure of any lagovirus capsid has yet to be determined. Here, we...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang X,Xu F,Liu J,Gao B,Liu Y,Zhai Y,Ma J,Zhang K,Baker TS,Schulten K,Zheng D,Pang H,Sun F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is essential for nearly all bacterial pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), but is severely limited in the human host. To meet its iron needs, Mtb secretes siderophores, small molecules with high affinity for iron, and takes up iron-loaded mycobactins (MBT) and carboxymycobactins (cMBT), from the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang L,Hendrickson RC,Meikle V,Lefkowitz EJ,Ioerger TR,Niederweis M

更新日期：2020-02-18 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：:Marek's Disease Virus (MDV) is an alphaherpesvirus that infects chickens, transforms CD4+ T cells and causes deadly lymphomas. In addition, MDV induces immunosuppression early during infection by inducing cell death of the infected lymphocytes, and potentially due to activation of regulatory T (Treg)-cells. Furthermor...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gurung A,Kamble N,Kaufer BB,Pathan A,Behboudi S

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA modification plays an important role in modulating host-pathogen interaction. Flavivirus NS5 protein encodes N-7 and 2'-O methyltransferase activities that are required for the formation of 5' type I cap (m(7)GpppAm) of viral RNA genome. Here we reported, for the first time, that flavivirus NS5 has a novel interna...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dong H,Chang DC,Hua MH,Lim SP,Chionh YH,Hia F,Lee YH,Kukkaro P,Lok SM,Dedon PC,Shi PY

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Babesia bovis is an apicomplexan tick-transmitted pathogen of cattle imposing a global risk and severe constraints to livestock health and economic development. The complete genome sequence was undertaken to facilitate vaccine antigen discovery, and to allow for comparative analysis with the related apicomplexan hemop...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brayton KA,Lau AO,Herndon DR,Hannick L,Kappmeyer LS,Berens SJ,Bidwell SL,Brown WC,Crabtree J,Fadrosh D,Feldblum T,Forberger HA,Haas BJ,Howell JM,Khouri H,Koo H,Mann DJ,Norimine J,Paulsen IT,Radune D,Ren Q,Smith

更新日期：2007-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded protein response (UPR) in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) constitutes a critical component of host innate immunity against microbial infections. In this report, we show that porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) utilizes the UPR machinery for its own benefit. We provide evidence that ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gao P,Chai Y,Song J,Liu T,Chen P,Zhou L,Ge X,Guo X,Han J,Yang H

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut dysbiosis associated with intestinal inflammation is characterized by the blooming of particular bacteria such as adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC). However, the precise mechanisms by which AIEC impact on colitis remain largely unknown. Here we show that antibiotic-induced dysbiosis worsened chemically-induced coli...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ohno M,Hasegawa M,Hayashi A,Caballero-Flores G,Alteri CJ,Lawley TD,Kamada N,Núñez G,Inohara N

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To guide control policies, it is important that the determinants of influenza transmission are fully characterized. Such assessment is complex because the risk of influenza infection is multifaceted and depends both on immunity acquired naturally or via vaccination and on the individual level of exposure to influenza ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cauchemez S,Ferguson NM,Fox A,Mai le Q,Thanh le T,Thai PQ,Thoang DD,Duong TN,Minh Hoa le N,Tran Hien N,Horby P

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular bloodstream form parasite Trypanosoma brucei is supremely adapted to escape the host innate and adaptive immune system. Evasion is mediated through an antigenically variable Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) coat, which is recycled at extraordinarily high rates. Blocking VSG synthesis triggers a pre...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cheung JL,Wand NV,Ooi CP,Ridewood S,Wheeler RJ,Rudenko G

更新日期：2016-11-28 00:00:00