Phytophthora sojae avirulence effector Avr3b is a secreted NADH and ADP-ribose pyrophosphorylase that modulates plant immunity.

abstract：:The ability to switch between yeast and filamentous forms is central to Candida albicans biology. The yeast-hyphal transition is implicated in adherence, tissue invasion, biofilm formation, phagocyte escape, and pathogenesis. A second form of morphological plasticity in C. albicans involves epigenetic switching betwee...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Si H,Hernday AD,Hirakawa MP,Johnson AD,Bennett RJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The matrix (M) proteins of rhabdoviruses are multifunctional proteins essential for virus maturation and budding that also regulate the expression of viral and host proteins. We have solved the structures of M from the vesicular stomatitis virus serotype New Jersey (genus: Vesiculovirus) and from Lagos bat virus (genu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Graham SC,Assenberg R,Delmas O,Verma A,Gholami A,Talbi C,Owens RJ,Stuart DI,Grimes JM,Bourhy H

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission of Helicobacter pylori is thought to occur mainly during childhood, and predominantly within families. However, due to the difficulty of obtaining H. pylori isolates from large population samples and to the extensive genetic diversity between isolates, the transmission and spread of H. pylori remain poorl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schwarz S,Morelli G,Kusecek B,Manica A,Balloux F,Owen RJ,Graham DY,van der Merwe S,Achtman M,Suerbaum S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi infection is characterized by chronic parasitism of non-lymphoid tissues and is rarely eliminated despite potent adaptive immune responses. This failure to cure has frequently been attributed to a loss or impairment of anti-T. cruzi T cell responses over time, analogous to the T cell dysfunction desc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pack AD,Collins MH,Rosenberg CS,Tarleton RL

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most significant pathogens affecting global food security. To cause rice blast disease the fungus elaborates a specialised infection structure called an appressorium. Here, we report genome wide transcriptional profile analysis of appressorium development using ne...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Soanes DM,Chakrabarti A,Paszkiewicz KH,Dawe AL,Talbot NJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 assembly and release are believed to occur at the plasma membrane in most host cells with the exception of primary macrophages, for which exclusive budding at late endosomes has been reported. Here, we applied a novel ultrastructural approach to assess HIV-1 budding in primary macrophages in an immunomarker-inde...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Welsch S,Keppler OT,Habermann A,Allespach I,Krijnse-Locker J,Kräusslich HG

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified from the mutualistic grass endophyte Epichloë festucae a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase gene (sidN) encoding a siderophore synthetase. The enzymatic product of SidN is shown to be a novel extracellular siderophore designated as epichloënin A, related to ferrirubin from the ferrichrome family. Targ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Johnson LJ,Koulman A,Christensen M,Lane GA,Fraser K,Forester N,Johnson RD,Bryan GT,Rasmussen S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As targets of adaptive immunity, influenza viruses are characterized by the fluidity with which they respond to the selective pressure applied by neutralizing antibodies. This mutability of structural determinants of protective immunity is the obstacle in developing universal influenza vaccines. Towards the developmen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang TT,Tan GS,Hai R,Pica N,Petersen E,Moran TM,Palese P

更新日期：2010-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a widespread protein secretion apparatus used by Gram-negative bacteria to deliver toxic effector proteins into adjacent bacterial or host cells. Here, we uncovered a role in interbacterial competition for the two T6SSs encoded by the marine pathogen Vibrio alginolyticus. Using c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Salomon D,Klimko JA,Trudgian DC,Kinch LN,Grishin NV,Mirzaei H,Orth K

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 strains harboring immune escape mutations can persist in circulation, but the impact of selection by multiple HLA alleles on population HIV-1 dynamics remains unclear. In Japan, HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase codon 135 (RT135) is under strong immune pressure by HLA-B*51:01-restricted and HLA-B*52:01-restricted T ce...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Akahoshi T,Gatanaga H,Kuse N,Chikata T,Koyanagi M,Ishizuka N,Brumme CJ,Murakoshi H,Brumme ZL,Oka S,Takiguchi M

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein is directed to the surface of lipid droplets (LD), a step that is essential for infectious virus production. However, the process by which core is recruited from LD into nascent virus particles is not well understood. To investigate the kinetics of core trafficking, we developed me...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Counihan NA,Rawlinson SM,Lindenbach BD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 (NFAT5)/Tonicity enhancer binding protein (TonEBP) is a transcription factor induced by hypertonic stress in the kidney. However, the function of NFAT5 in other organs has rarely been studied, even though it is ubiquitously expressed. Indeed, although NFAT5 was reported to be crit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Qiu Y,Ye X,Zhang HM,Hanson P,Zhao G,Tong L,Xie R,Yang D

更新日期：2017-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus infection (HBV) is a major risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. HBV replicates from a covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) that remains as an episome within the nucleus of infected cells and serves as a template for the transcription of HBV RNAs. The regulatory protein HBx ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ducroux A,Benhenda S,Rivière L,Semmes OJ,Benkirane M,Neuveut C

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular pathogens have evolved diverse strategies to invade and survive within host cells. Among the most studied facultative intracellular pathogens, Listeria monocytogenes is known to express two invasins-InlA and InlB-that induce bacterial internalization into nonphagocytic cells. The pore-forming toxin liste...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vadia S,Arnett E,Haghighat AC,Wilson-Kubalek EM,Tweten RK,Seveau S

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpesviruses, like most other DNA viruses, replicate in the host cell nucleus. Subnuclear domains known as promyelocytic leukemia protein nuclear bodies (PML-NBs), or ND10 bodies, have been implicated in restricting early herpesviral gene expression. These viruses have evolved countermeasures to disperse PML-NBs,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Reichelt M,Wang L,Sommer M,Perrino J,Nour AM,Sen N,Baiker A,Zerboni L,Arvin AM

更新日期：2011-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) replicates its 3 kb DNA genome through capsid-internal reverse transcription, initiated by assembly of 120 core protein (HBc) dimers around a complex of viral pregenomic (pg) RNA and polymerase. Following synthesis of relaxed circular (RC) DNA capsids can be enveloped and secreted as stable vir...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Heger-Stevic J,Zimmermann P,Lecoq L,Böttcher B,Nassal M

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons (IFNs) are a group of cytokines with a well-established antiviral function. They can be induced by viral infection, are secreted and bind to specific receptors on the same or neighbouring cells to activate the expression of hundreds of IFN stimulated genes (ISGs) with antiviral function. Type I IFN has bee...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crotta S,Davidson S,Mahlakoiv T,Desmet CJ,Buckwalter MR,Albert ML,Staeheli P,Wack A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In inflammation, pain is regulated by a balance of pro- and analgesic mediators. Analgesic mediators include opioid peptides which are secreted by neutrophils at the site of inflammation, leading to activation of opioid receptors on peripheral sensory neurons. In humans, local opioids and opioid peptides significantly...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rittner HL,Hackel D,Voigt P,Mousa S,Stolz A,Labuz D,Schäfer M,Schaefer M,Stein C,Brack A

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Mosquito-borne alphaviruses such as chikungunya virus and Ross River virus (RRV) are emerging pathogens capable of causing large-scale epidemics of virus-induced arthritis and myositis. The pathology of RRV-induced disease in both humans and mice is associated with induction of the host inflammatory response within th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gunn BM,Morrison TE,Whitmore AC,Blevins LK,Hueston L,Fraser RJ,Herrero LJ,Ramirez R,Smith PN,Mahalingam S,Heise MT

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of HIV-infected cells after reversal of proviral latency is not well characterized. Simonetti, et al. recently showed that CD4+ T-cells containing intact proviruses can clonally expand in vivo and produce low-level infectious viremia. We hypothesized that reversal of HIV latency by activation of CD4+ T-cells ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bui JK,Halvas EK,Fyne E,Sobolewski MD,Koontz D,Shao W,Luke B,Hong FF,Kearney MF,Mellors JW

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is a bacterial pathogen that colonizes the chitinous exoskeleton of zooplankton as well as the human gastrointestinal tract. Colonization of these different niches involves an N-acetylglucosamine binding protein (GbpA) that has been reported to mediate bacterial attachment to both marine chitin and mam...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wong E,Vaaje-Kolstad G,Ghosh A,Hurtado-Guerrero R,Konarev PV,Ibrahim AF,Svergun DI,Eijsink VG,Chatterjee NS,van Aalten DM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of genes of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) is essential for adherence of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) to intestinal epithelial cells. Gut factors that may modulate LEE gene expression may therefore influence the outcome of the infection. Because nitric oxide (NO) is a critical effecto...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Branchu P,Matrat S,Vareille M,Garrivier A,Durand A,Crépin S,Harel J,Jubelin G,Gobert AP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bank vole is a rodent susceptible to different prion strains from humans and various animal species. We analyzed the transmission features of different prions in a panel of seven rodent species which showed various degrees of phylogenetic affinity and specific prion protein (PrP) sequence divergences in order to i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Agrimi U,Nonno R,Dell'Omo G,Di Bari MA,Conte M,Chiappini B,Esposito E,Di Guardo G,Windl O,Vaccari G,Lipp HP

更新日期：2008-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) belongs to a class of cellular proteins involved in lipid metabolism. ApoE is a polymorphic protein produced primarily in macrophages and astrocytes. Different isoforms of ApoE have been associated with susceptibility to various diseases including Alzheimer's and cardiovascular diseases. ApoE e...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Siddiqui R,Suzu S,Ueno M,Nasser H,Koba R,Bhuyan F,Noyori O,Hamidi S,Sheng G,Yasuda-Inoue M,Hishiki T,Sukegawa S,Miyagi E,Strebel K,Matsushita S,Shimotohno K,Ariumi Y

更新日期：2018-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating virus-host interactions responsible for HIV-1 transmission is important for advancing HIV-1 prevention strategies. To this end, single genome amplification (SGA) and sequencing of HIV-1 within the context of a model of random virus evolution has made possible for the first time an unambiguous identificatio...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li H,Bar KJ,Wang S,Decker JM,Chen Y,Sun C,Salazar-Gonzalez JF,Salazar MG,Learn GH,Morgan CJ,Schumacher JE,Hraber P,Giorgi EE,Bhattacharya T,Korber BT,Perelson AS,Eron JJ,Cohen MS,Hicks CB,Haynes BF,Markowitz M,K

更新日期：2010-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Monepantel is a member of the recently identified class of anthelmintics known as the amino-acetonitrile derivatives (AADs). Monepantel controls all major gastro-intestinal nematodes in sheep including those that are resistant to the classical anthelmintics. Previous studies have shown that the Caenorhabditis elegans ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rufener L,Bedoni N,Baur R,Rey S,Glauser DA,Bouvier J,Beech R,Sigel E,Puoti A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lytic replication proceeds through an ordered cascade of gene expression that integrates lytic DNA amplification and late gene transcription. We and others previously demonstrated that 6 EBV proteins that have orthologs in β- and γ-, but not in α-herpesviruses, mediate late gene transcription ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Djavadian R,Hayes M,Johannsen E

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00