The Haemophilus influenzae HMW1C protein is a glycosyltransferase that transfers hexose residues to asparagine sites in the HMW1 adhesin.

abstract：:The factors that govern the development of tuberculosis disease are incompletely understood. We hypothesized that some strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) are more capable of causing disseminated disease than others and may be associated with polymorphisms in host genes responsible for the innate i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Caws M,Thwaites G,Dunstan S,Hawn TR,Lan NT,Thuong NT,Stepniewska K,Huyen MN,Bang ND,Loc TH,Gagneux S,van Soolingen D,Kremer K,van der Sande M,Small P,Anh PT,Chinh NT,Quy HT,Duyen NT,Tho DQ,Hieu NT,Torok E,Hien

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducing broad spectrum neutralizing antibodies against challenging pathogens such as HIV-1 is a major vaccine design goal, but may be hindered by conformational instability within viral envelope glycoproteins (Env). Chemical cross-linking is widely used for vaccine antigen stabilization, but how this process affects ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schiffner T,Pallesen J,Russell RA,Dodd J,de Val N,LaBranche CC,Montefiori D,Tomaras GD,Shen X,Harris SL,Moghaddam AE,Kalyuzhniy O,Sanders RW,McCoy LE,Moore JP,Ward AB,Sattentau QJ

更新日期：2018-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated to what extent natural transformation acting on free DNA substrates can facilitate transfer of mobile elements including transposons, integrons and/or gene cassettes between bacterial species. Naturally transformable cells of Acinetobacter baylyi were exposed to DNA from integron-carrying strains ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Domingues S,Harms K,Fricke WF,Johnsen PJ,da Silva GJ,Nielsen KM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal metabolism and uncontrolled angiogenesis are two important characteristics of malignant tumors. The occurrence of both events involves many key molecular changes including miRNA. However, EBV encoded miRNAs are rarely mentioned as capable of regulating tumor metabolism and tumor angiogenesis. Here, we reporte...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lyu X,Wang J,Guo X,Wu G,Jiao Y,Faleti OD,Liu P,Liu T,Long Y,Chong T,Yang X,Huang J,He M,Tsang CM,Tsao SW,Wang Q,Jiang Q,Li X

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The human parvovirus Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) type 2 can only replicate in cells co-infected with a helper virus, such as Adenovirus or Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 (HSV-1); whereas, in the absence of a helper virus, it establishes a latent infection. Previous studies demonstrated that the ternary HSV-1 helicase/pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Alazard-Dany N,Nicolas A,Ploquin A,Strasser R,Greco A,Epstein AL,Fraefel C,Salvetti A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestine is a common site for invasion by intracellular pathogens, but little is known about how pathogens restructure and exit intestinal cells in vivo. The natural microsporidian parasite N. parisii invades intestinal cells of the nematode C. elegans, progresses through its life cycle, and then exits cells in a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Estes KA,Szumowski SC,Troemel ER

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Leishmania parasites are transmitted to vertebrate hosts by female phlebotomine sand flies as they bloodfeed by lacerating the upper capillaries of the dermis with their barbed mouthparts. In the sand fly midgut secreted proteophosphoglycans from Leishmania form a biological plug known as the promastigote secretory ge...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Giraud E,Lestinova T,Derrick T,Martin O,Dillon RJ,Volf P,Műller I,Bates PA,Rogers ME

更新日期：2018-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertical transmission (VT) and horizontal transmission (HT) of pathogens refer to parental and non-parental chains of host-to-host transmission. Combining HT with VT enlarges considerably the range of ecological conditions in which a pathogen can persist, but the factors governing the relative frequency of each transm...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lequime S,Paul RE,Lambrechts L

更新日期：2016-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To further its pathogenesis, S. Typhimurium delivers effector proteins into host cells, including the novel E3 ubiquitin ligase (NEL) effector SspH2. Using model systems in a cross-kingdom approach we gained further insight into the molecular function of this effector. Here, we show that SspH2 modulates innate immunit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bhavsar AP,Brown NF,Stoepel J,Wiermer M,Martin DD,Hsu KJ,Imami K,Ross CJ,Hayden MR,Foster LJ,Li X,Hieter P,Finlay BB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV)--and herpesviruses in general--encode for a multipartite entry/fusion apparatus. In HSV it consists of the HSV-specific glycoprotein D (gD), and three additional glycoproteins, gH/gL and gB, conserved across the Herpesviridae family and responsible for the execution of fusion. According to t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gianni T,Salvioli S,Chesnokova LS,Hutt-Fletcher LM,Campadelli-Fiume G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics and regulation of HIV-1 nuclear import and its intranuclear movements after import have not been studied. To elucidate these essential HIV-1 post-entry events, we labeled viral complexes with two fluorescently tagged virion-incorporated proteins (APOBEC3F or integrase), and analyzed the HIV-1 dynamics of ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Burdick RC,Delviks-Frankenberry KA,Chen J,Janaka SK,Sastri J,Hu WS,Pathak VK

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) arise from retroviruses chromosomally integrated in the host germline. ERVs are common in vertebrate genomes and provide a valuable fossil record of past retroviral infections to investigate the biology and evolution of retroviruses over a deep time scale, including cross-species transmi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhuo X,Feschotte C

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:As humans age, they experience a progressive loss of thymic function and a corresponding shift in the makeup of the circulating CD8+ T cell population from naïve to memory phenotype. These alterations are believed to result in impaired CD8+ T cell responses in older individuals; however, evidence that these global cha...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lelic A,Verschoor CP,Ventresca M,Parsons R,Evelegh C,Bowdish D,Betts MR,Loeb MB,Bramson JL

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Intracellular Toll-like receptors (TLRs) expressed by dendritic cells recognize nucleic acids derived from pathogens and play an important role in the immune responses against the influenza virus (IAV), a single-stranded RNA sensed by different receptors including TLR7. However, the importance of TLR7 processing in th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Maschalidi S,Hässler S,Blanc F,Sepulveda FE,Tohme M,Chignard M,van Endert P,Si-Tahar M,Descamps D,Manoury B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the major candidate phylum Dependentiae (a.k.a. TM6) are widespread across diverse environments from showerheads to peat bogs; yet, with the exception of two isolates infecting amoebae, they are only known from metagenomic data. The limited knowledge of their biology indicates that they have a long evolutio...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Deeg CM,Zimmer MM,George EE,Husnik F,Keeling PJ,Suttle CA

更新日期：2019-05-31 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：:Shigella flexneri has evolved the ability to modify host cell function with intracellular active effectors to overcome the intestinal barrier. The detection of these microbial effectors and the initiation of innate immune responses are critical for rapid mucosal defense activation. The guanine nucleotide exchange fact...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Fukazawa A,Alonso C,Kurachi K,Gupta S,Lesser CF,McCormick BA,Reinecker HC

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, undergoes morphological and transcriptional adaptation in the switch from commensalism to pathogenicity. Although previous gene-knockout studies have identified many factors involved in this transformation, it remains unclear how these factors are regulated to...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Greig JA,Sudbery IM,Richardson JP,Naglik JR,Wang Y,Sudbery PE

更新日期：2015-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A pandemic-capable influenza virus requires a hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein that is immunologically unseen by most people and is capable of supporting replication and transmission in humans. HA stabilization has been linked to 2009 pH1N1 pandemic potential in humans and H5N1 airborne transmissibility in the ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Russier M,Yang G,Marinova-Petkova A,Vogel P,Kaplan BS,Webby RJ,Russell CJ

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Poxviruses subvert the host immune response by producing immunomodulatory proteins, including a complement regulatory protein. Ectromelia virus provides a mouse model for smallpox where the virus and the host's immune response have co-evolved. Using this model, our study investigated the role of the complement system ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Moulton EA,Atkinson JP,Buller RM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effectors are molecules used by microbial pathogens to facilitate infection via effector-triggered susceptibility or tissue necrosis in their host. Much research has been focussed on the identification and elucidating the function of fungal effectors during plant pathogenesis. By comparison, knowledge of how phytopath...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tan KC,Oliver RP

更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction systems (TCS) are used by bacteria to sense and respond to their environment. TCS are typically composed of a sensor histidine kinase (HK) and a response regulator (RR). The Vibrio cholerae genome encodes 52 RR, but the role of these RRs in V. cholerae pathogenesis is largely unknown....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cheng AT,Ottemann KM,Yildiz FH

更新日期：2015-05-22 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：:A global increase in invasive infections due to group A Streptococcus (S. pyogenes or GAS) has been observed since the 1980s, associated with emergence of a clonal group of strains of the M1T1 serotype. Among other virulence attributes, the M1T1 clone secretes NAD+-glycohydrolase (NADase). When GAS binds to epithelial...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sharma O,O'Seaghdha M,Velarde JJ,Wessels MR

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) infects pregnant women and causes devastating congenital zika syndrome (CZS). How the virus is vertically transmitted to the fetus and induces neuronal loss remains unclear. We previously reported that Pellino (Peli)1, an E3 ubiquitin ligase, promotes p38MAPK activation in microglia and induction of ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Luo H,Li G,Wang B,Tian B,Gao J,Zou J,Shi S,Zhu S,Peng BH,Adam A,Martinez A,Hein K,Winkelmann ER,Mahmoud Y,Zhou X,Shan C,Rossi S,Weaver S,Barrett ADT,Sun SC,Zhang W,Shi PY,Wu P,Wang T

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:There are 25 auxin response factors (ARFs) in the rice genome, which play critical roles in regulating myriad aspects of plant development, but their role (s) in host antiviral immune defense and the underneath mechanism remain largely unknown. By using the rice-rice dwarf virus (RDV) model system, here we report that...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Qin Q,Li G,Jin L,Huang Y,Wang Y,Wei C,Xu Z,Yang Z,Wang H,Li Y

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease state of amebiasis, caused by Entamoeba histolytica, varies from asymptomatic to severe manifestations that include dysentery and extraintestinal abscesses. The virulence factors of the pathogen, and host defense mechanisms, contribute to the outcomes of infection; however, the underlying genetic factors, ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nakada-Tsukui K,Sekizuka T,Sato-Ebine E,Escueta-de Cadiz A,Ji DD,Tomii K,Kuroda M,Nozaki T

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory CD8 T cells can provide protection from re-infection by respiratory viruses such as influenza and SARS. However, the relative contribution of memory CD8 T cells in providing protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is currently unclear. To address this knowledge gap, we utilized a prime-bo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schmidt ME,Knudson CJ,Hartwig SM,Pewe LL,Meyerholz DK,Langlois RA,Harty JT,Varga SM

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00