Environmental constraints guide migration of malaria parasites during transmission.

abstract：:Immunocompromised individuals tend to suffer from influenza longer with more serious complications than otherwise healthy patients. Little is known about the impact of prolonged infection and the efficacy of antiviral therapy in these patients. Among all 189 influenza A virus infected immunocompromised patients admitt...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： van der Vries E,Stittelaar KJ,van Amerongen G,Veldhuis Kroeze EJ,de Waal L,Fraaij PL,Meesters RJ,Luider TM,van der Nagel B,Koch B,Vulto AG,Schutten M,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Many thousands of endoparasitic wasp species are known to inject polydnavirus (PDV) particles into their caterpillar host during oviposition, causing immune and developmental dysfunctions that benefit the wasp larva. PDVs associated with braconid and ichneumonid wasps, bracoviruses and ichnoviruses respectively, both ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Volkoff AN,Jouan V,Urbach S,Samain S,Bergoin M,Wincker P,Demettre E,Cousserans F,Provost B,Coulibaly F,Legeai F,Béliveau C,Cusson M,Gyapay G,Drezen JM

更新日期：2010-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:PB1-F2 is a 90 amino acid protein that is expressed from the +1 open reading frame in the PB1 gene of some influenza A viruses and has been shown to contribute to viral pathogenicity. Notably, a serine at position 66 (66S) in PB1-F2 is known to increase virulence compared to an isogenic virus with an asparagine (66N) ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Varga ZT,Ramos I,Hai R,Schmolke M,García-Sastre A,Fernandez-Sesma A,Palese P

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) nonstructural protein 2 (NS2) is a hydrophobic, transmembrane protein that is required not only for NS2-NS3 cleavage, but also for infectious virus production. To identify cellular factors that interact with NS2 and are important for HCV propagation, we screened a human liver cDNA library by sp...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Suzuki R,Matsuda M,Watashi K,Aizaki H,Matsuura Y,Wakita T,Suzuki T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein C inhibitor (PCI) is a heparin-binding serine proteinase inhibitor belonging to the family of serpin proteins. Here we describe that PCI exerts broad antimicrobial activity against bacterial pathogens. This ability is mediated by the interaction of PCI with lipid membranes, which subsequently leads to their pe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Malmström E,Mörgelin M,Malmsten M,Johansson L,Norrby-Teglund A,Shannon O,Schmidtchen A,Meijers JC,Herwald H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) T cell loss is central to HIV pathogenesis. In the initial weeks post-infection, the great majority of dying cells are uninfected CD4(+) T cells. We previously showed that the 3S motif of HIV-1 gp41 induces surface expression of NKp44L, a cellular ligand for an activating NK receptor, on uninfected bystander CD...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Fausther-Bovendo H,Vieillard V,Sagan S,Bismuth G,Debré P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiome and the phage meta-genome within the human gut are influenced by antibiotic treatments. Identifying a novel mechanism, here we demonstrate that bacteria use the universal communication molecule AI-2 to induce virulence genes and transfer them via phage release. High concentrations (i.e. 100 μM) of AI-2 ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rossmann FS,Racek T,Wobser D,Puchalka J,Rabener EM,Reiger M,Hendrickx AP,Diederich AK,Jung K,Klein C,Huebner J

更新日期：2015-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ingested Vibrio cholerae pass through the stomach and colonize the small intestines of its host. Here, we show that V. cholerae requires at least two types of DNA repair systems to efficiently compete for colonization of the infant mouse intestine. These results show that V. cholerae experiences increased DNA damage i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Davies BW,Bogard RW,Dupes NM,Gerstenfeld TA,Simmons LA,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the tubercle bacillus to arrest phagosome maturation is considered one major mechanism that allows its survival within host macrophages. To identify mycobacterial genes involved in this process, we developed a high throughput phenotypic cell-based assay enabling individual sub-cellular analysis of over ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brodin P,Poquet Y,Levillain F,Peguillet I,Larrouy-Maumus G,Gilleron M,Ewann F,Christophe T,Fenistein D,Jang J,Jang MS,Park SJ,Rauzier J,Carralot JP,Shrimpton R,Genovesio A,Gonzalo-Asensio JA,Puzo G,Martin C,Brosch R

更新日期：2010-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron, an essential co-factor of respiratory chain proteins, is critical for mitochondrial function and maintenance of its redox balance. We previously reported a role for iron uptake in differentiation of Leishmania amazonensis into virulent amastigotes, by a mechanism that involves reactive oxygen species (ROS) produ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mittra B,Laranjeira-Silva MF,Perrone Bezerra de Menezes J,Jensen J,Michailowsky V,Andrews NW

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006120.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kinosada H,Yasunaga JI,Shimura K,Miyazato P,Onishi C,Iyoda T,Inaba K,Matsuoka M

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, the introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) largely eliminated vaccine serotypes (VT); non-vaccine serotypes (NVT) subsequently increased in carriage and disease. Vaccination also disrupts the composition of the pneumococcal pangenome, which includes mobile genetic el...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Azarian T,Grant LR,Arnold BJ,Hammitt LL,Reid R,Santosham M,Weatherholtz R,Goklish N,Thompson CM,Bentley SD,O'Brien KL,Hanage WP,Lipsitch M

更新日期：2018-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 entry can be inhibited by soluble peptides from the gp41 heptad repeat-2 (HR2) domain that interfere with formation of the 6-helix bundle during fusion. Inhibition has also been seen when these peptides are conjugated to anchoring molecules and over-expressed on the cell surface. We hypothesized that potent anti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Leslie GJ,Wang J,Richardson MW,Haggarty BS,Hua KL,Duong J,Secreto AJ,Jordon AP,Romano J,Kumar KE,DeClercq JJ,Gregory PD,June CH,Root MJ,Riley JL,Holmes MC,Hoxie JA

更新日期：2016-11-17 00:00:00

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：:The pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans exhibits morphological changes in cell size during lung infection, producing both typical size 5 to 7 μm cells and large titan cells (> 10 μm and up to 100 μm). We found and optimized in vitro conditions that produce titan cells in order to identify the ancestry of titan c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hommel B,Mukaremera L,Cordero RJB,Coelho C,Desjardins CA,Sturny-Leclère A,Janbon G,Perfect JR,Fraser JA,Casadevall A,Cuomo CA,Dromer F,Nielsen K,Alanio A

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae is a common human commensal and a major life-threatening pathogen in neonates. Adherence to host epithelial cells is the first critical step of the infectious process. Pili have been observed on the surface of several gram-positive bacteria including S. agalactiae. We previously characterized ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Konto-Ghiorghi Y,Mairey E,Mallet A,Duménil G,Caliot E,Trieu-Cuot P,Dramsi S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell division predominantly occurs by a highly conserved process, termed binary fission, that requires the bacterial homologue of tubulin, FtsZ. Other mechanisms of bacterial cell division that are independent of FtsZ are rare. Although the obligate intracellular human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis, the lea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

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

更新日期：2016-08-09 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：:Bacteria that live in the environment have evolved pathways specialized to defend against eukaryotic organisms or other bacteria. In this manuscript, we systematically examined the role of the five type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) of Burkholderia thailandensis (B. thai) in eukaryotic and bacterial cell interactions. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schwarz S,West TE,Boyer F,Chiang WC,Carl MA,Hood RD,Rohmer L,Tolker-Nielsen T,Skerrett SJ,Mougous JD

更新日期：2010-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium abscessus is considered the most common respiratory pathogen among the rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria. Infections with M. abscessus are increasingly found in patients with chronic lung diseases, especially cystic fibrosis, and are often refractory to antibiotic therapy. M. abscessus has two...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bernut A,Nguyen-Chi M,Halloum I,Herrmann JL,Lutfalla G,Kremer L

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease L (RNase L) is an important effector of the innate antiviral response. Mutations or variants that impair function of RNase L, particularly R462Q, have been proposed as susceptibility factors for prostate cancer. Given the role of this gene in viral defense, we sought to explore the possibility that a vira...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Urisman A,Molinaro RJ,Fischer N,Plummer SJ,Casey G,Klein EA,Malathi K,Magi-Galluzzi C,Tubbs RR,Ganem D,Silverman RH,DeRisi JL

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：: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

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：:Genetic exchange by recombination, or reassortment of genomic segments, has been shown to be an important process in RNA virus evolution, resulting often in important phenotypic changes affecting host range and virulence. However, data from numerous systems indicate that reassortant or recombinant genotypes could be s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Escriu F,Fraile A,García-Arenal F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous targeting of host and pathogen processes represents an untapped approach for the treatment of intracellular infections. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is a host cell transcription factor that is activated by and required for the growth of the intracellular protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii at p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brown KM,Suvorova E,Farrell A,McLain A,Dittmar A,Wiley GB,Marth G,Gaffney PM,Gubbels MJ,White M,Blader IJ

更新日期：2014-06-12 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：:The human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax protein hijacks the host ubiquitin machinery to activate IκB kinases (IKKs) and NF-κB and promote cell survival; however, the key ubiquitinated factors downstream of Tax involved in cell transformation are unknown. Using mass spectrometry, we undertook an unbiased pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Choi YB,Harhaj EW

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of virus infection is mediated in part by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) Class Ia presentation of viral peptides to conventional CD8 T cells. Although important, the absolute requirement for MHC Class Ia-dependent CD8 T cells for control of chronic virus infection has not been formally demonstrated. We...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Braaten DC,McClellan JS,Messaoudi I,Tibbetts SA,McClellan KB,Nikolich-Zugich J,Virgin HW

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00