Protein C inhibitor--a novel antimicrobial agent.

abstract：:Human Group IIA secreted phospholipase A2 (hGIIA) is an acute phase protein with bactericidal activity against Gram-positive bacteria. Infection models in hGIIA transgenic mice have suggested the importance of hGIIA as an innate defense mechanism against the human pathogens Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and Group B Stre...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： van Hensbergen VP,Movert E,de Maat V,Lüchtenborg C,Le Breton Y,Lambeau G,Payré C,Henningham A,Nizet V,van Strijp JAG,Brügger B,Carlsson F,McIver KS,van Sorge NM

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain pathogens deliver effectors into plant cells to modify host protein targets and thereby suppress immunity. These target modifications can be detected by intracellular immune receptors, or Resistance (R) proteins, that trigger strong immune responses including localized host cell death. The accelerated cell dea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Palma K,Thorgrimsen S,Malinovsky FG,Fiil BK,Nielsen HB,Brodersen P,Hofius D,Petersen M,Mundy J

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactivation of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is important for persistent infection in the host as well as viral oncogenesis. The replication and transcription activator (RTA) encoded by KSHV ORF50 plays a central role in the switch from viral latency to lytic replication. Given that RTA is a transcri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wei X,Bai L,Dong L,Liu H,Xing P,Zhou Z,Wu S,Lan K

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an RNA virus in the Family Paramyxoviridae. Here, the activities performed by the RSV polymerase when it encounters the viral antigenomic promoter were examined. RSV RNA synthesis was reconstituted in vitro using recombinant, isolated polymerase and an RNA oligonucleotide template ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Noton SL,Deflubé LR,Tremaglio CZ,Fearns R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) causes lifelong infection affecting between 50 and 90% of the global population. In addition to causing dermal lesions, HSV-1 is a leading cause of blindness resulting from recurrent corneal infection. Corneal disease is characterized by loss of corneal immunologic privilege and extensiv...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wuest T,Zheng M,Efstathiou S,Halford WP,Carr DJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 200 million people have, and another 600 million are at risk of contracting, schistosomiasis, one of the major neglected tropical diseases. Transmission of this infection, which is caused by helminth parasites of the genus Schistosoma, depends upon the release of parasite eggs from the human host. However, approx...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Freitas TC,Jung E,Pearce EJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aspergillus fumigatus sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP) SrbA belongs to the basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) family of transcription factors and is crucial for antifungal drug resistance and virulence. The latter phenotype is especially striking, as loss of SrbA results in complete loss of virulence i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chung D,Barker BM,Carey CC,Merriman B,Werner ER,Lechner BE,Dhingra S,Cheng C,Xu W,Blosser SJ,Morohashi K,Mazurie A,Mitchell TK,Haas H,Mitchell AP,Cramer RA

更新日期：2014-11-06 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：:This study investigated the role of prion infection of the olfactory mucosa in the shedding of prion infectivity into nasal secretions. Prion infection with the HY strain of the transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) agent resulted in a prominent infection of the olfactory bulb and the olfactory sensory epithelium in...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bessen RA,Shearin H,Martinka S,Boharski R,Lowe D,Wilham JM,Caughey B,Wiley JA

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of Francisella tularensis, the etiological agent of tularemia, relies on an atypical type VI secretion system (T6SS) encoded by a genomic island termed the Francisella Pathogenicity Island (FPI). While the importance of the FPI in F. tularensis virulence is clearly established, the precise role of most o...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rigard M,Bröms JE,Mosnier A,Hologne M,Martin A,Lindgren L,Punginelli C,Lays C,Walker O,Charbit A,Telouk P,Conlan W,Terradot L,Sjöstedt A,Henry T

更新日期：2016-09-07 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：:Mycobacterium leprae, an obligate intracellular bacillus, infects Schwann cells (SCs), leading to peripheral nerve damage, the most severe leprosy symptom. In the present study, we revisited the involvement of phenolic glycolipid I (PGL I), an abundant, private, surface M. leprae molecule, in M. leprae-SC interaction ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Díaz Acosta CC,Dias AA,Rosa TLSA,Batista-Silva LR,Rosa PS,Toledo-Pinto TG,Costa FDMR,Lara FA,Rodrigues LS,Mattos KA,Sarno EN,Bozza PT,Guilhot C,de Berrêdo-Pinho M,Pessolani MCV

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus that has caused a worldwide pandemic of the human respiratory illness COVID-19, resulting in a severe threat to public health and safety. Analysis of the genetic tree suggests that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the same Betacoronavirus group a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tang D,Comish P,Kang R

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:G3BP-1 and -2 (hereafter referred to as G3BP) are multifunctional RNA-binding proteins involved in stress granule (SG) assembly. Viruses from diverse families target G3BP for recruitment to replication or transcription complexes in order to block SG assembly but also to acquire pro-viral effects via other unknown func...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Götte B,Panas MD,Hellström K,Liu L,Samreen B,Larsson O,Ahola T,McInerney GM

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic events associated with maintaining redox homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) during infection are poorly understood. Here, we discovered a novel redox switching mechanism by which Mtb WhiB3 under defined oxidizing and reducing conditions differentially modulates the assimilation of propionate...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Singh A,Crossman DK,Mai D,Guidry L,Voskuil MI,Renfrow MB,Steyn AJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pandemic influenza A virus (IAV) remains a significant threat to global health. Preparedness relies primarily upon a single class of neuraminidase (NA) targeted antivirals, against which resistance is steadily growing. The M2 proton channel is an alternative clinically proven antiviral target, yet a near-ubiquitous S3...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Scott C,Kankanala J,Foster TL,Goldhill DH,Bao P,Simmons K,Pingen M,Bentham M,Atkins E,Loundras E,Elderfield R,Claridge JK,Thompson J,Stilwell PR,Tathineni R,McKimmie CS,Targett-Adams P,Schnell JR,Cook GP,Evans S,B

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ras-GAP SH3 domain-binding proteins (G3BP) are essential regulators of the formation of stress granules (SG), cytosolic aggregates of proteins and RNA that are induced upon cellular stress, such as virus infection. Many viruses, including Semliki Forest virus (SFV), block SG induction by targeting G3BP. In this wo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Panas MD,Schulte T,Thaa B,Sandalova T,Kedersha N,Achour A,McInerney GM

更新日期：2015-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:RANTES (CCL5) is a chemokine expressed by many hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cell types that plays an important role in homing and migration of effector and memory T cells during acute infections. The RANTES receptor, CCR5, is a major target of anti-HIV drugs based on blocking viral entry. However, defects in RA...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crawford A,Angelosanto JM,Nadwodny KL,Blackburn SD,Wherry EJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infection of macrophages plays a key role in viral pathogenesis and progression to AIDS. Polyinosine-polycytidylic acid (poly(I:C); a synthetic analog of dsRNA) and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the ligands for Toll-like receptors (TLR) TLR3 and TLR4, respectively, are known to decrease HIV-1 infection in ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Swaminathan G,Rossi F,Sierra LJ,Gupta A,Navas-Martín S,Martín-García J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the major risk factor for the development of gastric cancer. Our laboratory has reported that the Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway is an early response to infection that is fundamental to the initiation of H. pylori-induced gastritis. H. pylori also induces programmed death lig...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Holokai L,Chakrabarti J,Broda T,Chang J,Hawkins JA,Sundaram N,Wroblewski LE,Peek RM Jr,Wang J,Helmrath M,Wells JM,Zavros Y

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematode parasites secrete molecules which regulate the mammalian immune system, but their genetic intractability is a major impediment to identifying and characterising the biological effects of these molecules. We describe here a novel system for heterologous expression of helminth secreted proteins in the natural p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vaux R,Schnoeller C,Berkachy R,Roberts LB,Hagen J,Gounaris K,Selkirk ME

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal function of macrophages against pneumococci is enhanced by their apoptotic demise, which is controlled by the anti-apoptotic protein Mcl-1. Here, we show that lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) and cytosolic translocation of activated cathepsin D occur prior to activation of a mitochondrial pat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bewley MA,Marriott HM,Tulone C,Francis SE,Mitchell TJ,Read RC,Chain B,Kroemer G,Whyte MK,Dockrell DH

更新日期：2011-01-27 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：:As a canonical adaptor for the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family, myeloid differentiation primary response protein 88 (MyD88) has crucial roles in host defense against infection by microbial pathogens, and its dysregulation might induce autoimmune diseases. Here, we demonstrate that the chicken Cullin 3-based ubiquitin ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li Q,Wang F,Wang Q,Zhang N,Zheng J,Zheng M,Liu R,Cui H,Wen J,Zhao G

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the hallmarks of adaptive immunity is the development of a long-term pathogen specific memory response. While persistent memory T cells certainly impact the immune response during a secondary challenge, their role in unrelated infections is less clear. To address this issue, we utilized lymphocytic choriomening...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crosby EJ,Goldschmidt MH,Wherry EJ,Scott P

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a Delta-proteobacterium that oscillates between free-living growth and predation on Gram-negative bacteria including important pathogens of man, animals and plants. After entering the prey periplasm, killing the prey and replicating inside the prey bdelloplast, several motile B. bacteriov...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hobley L,Fung RK,Lambert C,Harris MA,Dabhi JM,King SS,Basford SM,Uchida K,Till R,Ahmad R,Aizawa S,Gomelsky M,Sockett RE

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transformation is an important mechanism of microbial evolution through which bacteria have been observed to rapidly adapt in response to clinical interventions; examples include facilitating vaccine evasion and the development of penicillin resistance in the major respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. To cha...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Croucher NJ,Harris SR,Barquist L,Parkhill J,Bentley SD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive-strand RNA viruses replicate in host cells by forming large viral replication organelles, which harbor numerous membrane-bound viral replicase complexes (VRCs). In spite of its essential role in viral replication, the biogenesis of the VRCs is not fully understood. The authors identified critical roles of cel...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Feng Z,Kovalev N,Nagy PD

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the majority of pathogenic Salmonella serovars are capable of infecting many different animal species, typically producing a self-limited gastroenteritis, serovars with narrow host-specificity exhibit increased virulence and their infections frequently result in fatal systemic diseases. In our study, a genetic...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kisiela DI,Chattopadhyay S,Libby SJ,Karlinsey JE,Fang FC,Tchesnokova V,Kramer JJ,Beskhlebnaya V,Samadpour M,Grzymajlo K,Ugorski M,Lankau EW,Mackie RI,Clegg S,Sokurenko EV

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoviral vectors have shown significant promise as vaccine delivery vectors due to their ability to elicit both innate and adaptive immune responses. α-defensins are effector molecules of the innate immune response and have been shown to modulate natural infection with adenoviruses, but the majority of α-defensin-ad...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tartaglia LJ,Badamchi-Zadeh A,Abbink P,Blass E,Aid M,Gebre MS,Li Z,Pastores KC,Trott S,Gupte S,Larocca RA,Barouch DH

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00