A communal bacterial adhesin anchors biofilm and bystander cells to surfaces.

abstract：:Successful infection of the host requires secretion of effector proteins to evade or suppress plant immunity. Secretion of effectors in root-infecting fungal pathogens, however, remains unexplored. We previously reported that Verticillium dahliae, a root-infecting phytopathogenic fungus, develops a penetration peg fro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhou TT,Zhao YL,Guo HS

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Type VI secretion systems (T6SS) are trans-envelope machines dedicated to the secretion of virulence factors into eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells, therefore required for pathogenesis and/or for competition towards neighboring bacteria. The T6SS apparatus resembles the injection device of bacteriophage T4, and is ancho...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Felisberto-Rodrigues C,Durand E,Aschtgen MS,Blangy S,Ortiz-Lombardia M,Douzi B,Cambillau C,Cascales E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of mosquito populations with insecticide treated bed nets and indoor residual sprays remains the cornerstone of malaria reduction and elimination programs. In light of widespread insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, however, alternative strategies for reducing transmission by the mosquito vector are urgen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Childs LM,Cai FY,Kakani EG,Mitchell SN,Paton D,Gabrieli P,Buckee CO,Catteruccia F

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of host tissues by Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis requires an unusual family of staphylococcal adhesive proteins that contain long stretches of serine-aspartate dipeptide-repeats (SDR). The prototype member of this family is clumping factor A (ClfA), a key virulence factor that mediates adhesion to...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hazenbos WL,Kajihara KK,Vandlen R,Morisaki JH,Lehar SM,Kwakkenbos MJ,Beaumont T,Bakker AQ,Phung Q,Swem LR,Ramakrishnan S,Kim J,Xu M,Shah IM,Diep BA,Sai T,Sebrell A,Khalfin Y,Oh A,Koth C,Lin SJ,Lee BC,Strandh M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) were shown effective in animal models, and are currently evaluated in clinical trials. However, use of these antibodies in humans is hampered by the rapid emergence of resistant viruses. Here we show that soft-randomizatio...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Otsuka Y,Schmitt K,Quinlan BD,Gardner MR,Alfant B,Reich A,Farzan M,Choe H

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecotin is a serine protease inhibitor produced by hundreds of microbial species, including pathogens. Here we show, that ecotin orthologs from Escherichia coli, Yersinia pestis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Leishmania major are potent inhibitors of MASP-1 and MASP-2, the two key activator proteases of the complement lec...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nagy ZA,Szakács D,Boros E,Héja D,Vígh E,Sándor N,Józsi M,Oroszlán G,Dobó J,Gál P,Pál G

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichodysplasia spinulosa-associated Polyomavirus (TSPyV) was isolated from a patient suffering from trichodysplasia spinulosa, a skin disease that can appear in severely immunocompromised patients. While TSPyV is one of the five members of the polyomavirus family that are directly linked to a human disease, details a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ströh LJ,Gee GV,Blaum BS,Dugan AS,Feltkamp MC,Atwood WJ,Stehle T

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavivirus nonstructural protein 5 (NS5) consists of methyltransferase (MTase) and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) domains, which catalyze 5'-RNA capping/methylation and RNA synthesis, respectively, during viral genome replication. Although the crystal structure of flavivirus NS5 is known, no data about the quater...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Klema VJ,Ye M,Hindupur A,Teramoto T,Gottipati K,Padmanabhan R,Choi KH

更新日期：2016-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial pathogens and symbionts use type III secretion machines to interact with their hosts by injecting bacterial effector proteins into host target cells. A central component of this complex machine is the cytoplasmic sorting platform, which orchestrates the engagement and preparation of type III secreted pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lara-Tejero M,Qin Z,Hu B,Butan C,Liu J,Galán JE

更新日期：2019-01-22 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

abstract：:The prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in pathogenic bacteria is a major challenge to treating many infectious diseases. The spread of these genes is driven by the strong selection imposed by the use of antibacterial drugs. However, in the absence of drug selection, antibiotic resistance genes impose a fitness ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Albarracín Orio AG,Piñas GE,Cortes PR,Cian MB,Echenique J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interplay between autophagy and intracellular pathogens is intricate as autophagy is an essential cellular response to fight against infections, whereas numerous microbes have developed strategies to escape this process or even exploit it to their own benefit. The fine tuned timing and/or selective molecular pathw...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Richetta C,Grégoire IP,Verlhac P,Azocar O,Baguet J,Flacher M,Tangy F,Rabourdin-Combe C,Faure M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic variation to evade host immunity has long been assumed to be a driving force of diversifying selection in pathogens. Colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is central to the organism's transmission and therefore evolution, is limited by two arms of the immune system: antibody- and T cell- mediated i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li Y,Gierahn T,Thompson CM,Trzciński K,Ford CB,Croucher N,Gouveia P,Flechtner JB,Malley R,Lipsitch M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of host Rho GTPases is a widespread strategy employed by bacterial pathogens to manipulate mammalian cellular functions and avoid immune defenses. Some bacterial toxins mimic eukaryotic Rho GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) to inactivate mammalian GTPases, probably as a result of evolutionary convergence....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Colinet D,Schmitz A,Depoix D,Crochard D,Poirié M

更新日期：2007-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) US2, US3, US6 and US11 act in concert to prevent immune recognition of virally infected cells by CD8+ T-lymphocytes through downregulation of MHC class I molecules (MHC-I). Here we show that US2 function goes far beyond MHC-I degradation. A systematic proteomic study using Plasma Membrane ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hsu JL,van den Boomen DJ,Tomasec P,Weekes MP,Antrobus R,Stanton RJ,Ruckova E,Sugrue D,Wilkie GS,Davison AJ,Wilkinson GW,Lehner PJ

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica transmembrane kinases (EhTMKs) can be grouped into six distinct families on the basis of motifs and sequences. Analysis of the E. histolytica genome revealed the presence of 35 EhTMKB1 members on the basis of sequence identity (>or=95%). Only six homologs were full length containing an extracellu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shrimal S,Bhattacharya S,Bhattacharya A

更新日期：2010-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking feature of human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is chronic inflammation in the spleen and liver, and VL patients present increased production levels of multiple inflammatory mediators, which contribute to tissue damage and disease severity. Here, we combined an experimental model with the transcriptional profi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sacramento LA,Benevides L,Maruyama SR,Tavares L,Fukutani KF,Francozo M,Sparwasser T,Cunha FQ,Almeida RP,da Silva JS,Carregaro V

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Host control of influenza A virus (IAV) is associated with exuberant pulmonary inflammation characterized by the influx of myeloid cells and production of proinflammatory cytokines including interferons (IFNs). It is unclear, however, how the immune system clears the virus without causing lethal immunopathology. Here,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Stifter SA,Bhattacharyya N,Pillay R,Flórido M,Triccas JA,Britton WJ,Feng CG

更新日期：2016-01-05 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：:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a global public health burden for which no licensed vaccine exists. To aid vaccine development via increased understanding of the protective antibody response to RSV prefusion glycoprotein F (PreF), we performed structural and functional studies using the human neutralizing antibod...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Harshbarger W,Tian S,Wahome N,Balsaraf A,Bhattacharya D,Jiang D,Pandey R,Tungare K,Friedrich K,Mehzabeen N,Biancucci M,Chinchilla-Olszar D,Mallett CP,Huang Y,Wang Z,Bottomley MJ,Malito E,Chandramouli S

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) suppress the transcriptional and post-transcriptional expression of genes in plants. Several miRNA families target genes encoding nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR) plant innate immune receptors. The fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici causes vascular wilt disease in tomat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ouyang S,Park G,Atamian HS,Han CS,Stajich JE,Kaloshian I,Borkovich KA

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of human complement inhibitors to vaccine antigens in vivo could diminish their immunogenicity. A meningococcal ligand for the complement down-regulator, factor H (fH), is fH-binding protein (fHbp), which is specific for human fH. Vaccines containing recombinant fHbp or native outer membrane vesicles (NOMV...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Beernink PT,Shaughnessy J,Pajon R,Braga EM,Ram S,Granoff DM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial superantigens (SAgs) cause Vβ-dependent T-cell proliferation leading to immune dysregulation associated with the pathogenesis of life-threatening infections such as toxic shock syndrome, and necrotizing pneumonia. Previously, we demonstrated that staphylococcal enterotoxin-like toxin X (SElX) from Staphyloco...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tuffs SW,James DBA,Bestebroer J,Richards AC,Goncheva MI,O'Shea M,Wee BA,Seo KS,Schlievert PM,Lengeling A,van Strijp JA,Torres VJ,Fitzgerald JR

更新日期：2017-09-07 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：:In nature, larvae of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster are commonly infected by parasitoid wasps, and so have evolved a robust immune response to counter wasp infection. In this response, fly immune cells form a multilayered capsule surrounding the wasp egg, leading to death of the parasite. Many of the molecular m...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mortimer NT,Kacsoh BZ,Keebaugh ES,Schlenke TA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of honey bees are declining throughout the world, with US beekeepers losing 30% of their colonies each winter. Though multiple factors are driving these colony losses, it is increasingly clear that viruses play a major role. However, information about the molecular mechanisms mediating antiviral immunity i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Galbraith DA,Yang X,Niño EL,Yi S,Grozinger C

更新日期：2015-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis is a disease of great medical and veterinary importance in tropical and subtropical regions, caused by parasitic flatworms of the genus Schistosoma (subclass Digenea). Following major water development schemes in the 1980s, schistosomiasis has become an important parasitic disease of children living in...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Huyse T,Webster BL,Geldof S,Stothard JR,Diaw OT,Polman K,Rollinson D

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) (genus Phlebovirus, family Bunyaviridae) is a negative-stranded RNA virus with a tripartite genome. RVFV is transmitted by mosquitoes and causes fever and severe hemorrhagic illness among humans, and fever and high rates of abortions in livestock. A nonstructural RVFV NSs protein inhibit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ikegami T,Narayanan K,Won S,Kamitani W,Peters CJ,Makino S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission of prions between species is limited by the "species barrier," which hampers a full characterization of human prion strains in the mouse model. We report that the efficiency of primary transmission of prions from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients to a wild rodent species, the bank vole (Clethrionomys gla...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nonno R,Di Bari MA,Cardone F,Vaccari G,Fazzi P,Dell'Omo G,Cartoni C,Ingrosso L,Boyle A,Galeno R,Sbriccoli M,Lipp HP,Bruce M,Pocchiari M,Agrimi U

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular, gram-negative bacterium Chlamydophila pneumoniae (Cpn) has impact as a human pathogen. Little is known about changes in the Cpn transcriptome during its biphasic developmental cycle (the acute infection) and persistence. The latter stage has been linked to chronic diseases. To analyze Cpn C...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mäurer AP,Mehlitz A,Mollenkopf HJ,Meyer TF

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00