Towards a structural comprehension of bacterial type VI secretion systems: characterization of the TssJ-TssM complex of an Escherichia coli pathovar.

abstract：:Enterococci are robust gram-positive bacteria that are found in a variety of surroundings and that cause a significant number of healthcare-associated infections. The genus possesses a high-efficiency pheromone-responsive plasmid (PRP) transfer system for genetic exchange that allows antimicrobial-resistance determina...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sterling AJ,Snelling WJ,Naughton PJ,Ternan NG,Dooley JSG

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic nematodes are of medical and veterinary importance, adversely affecting human health and animal welfare. Ascaris suum is a gastrointestinal parasite of pigs; in addition to its veterinary significance it is a good model of the human parasite Ascaris lumbricoides, estimated to infect approximately 1.4 billion...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Williamson SM,Robertson AP,Brown L,Williams T,Woods DJ,Martin RJ,Sattelle DB,Wolstenholme AJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria starts with the infection of the liver of the host by Plasmodium sporozoites, the parasite form transmitted by infected mosquitoes. Sporozoites migrate through several hepatocytes by breaching their plasma membranes before finally infecting one with the formation of an internalization vacuole. Migration throug...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ono T,Cabrita-Santos L,Leitao R,Bettiol E,Purcell LA,Diaz-Pulido O,Andrews LB,Tadakuma T,Bhanot P,Mota MM,Rodriguez A

更新日期：2008-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains in Toll-like receptors are essential for initiating and propagating the eukaryotic innate immune signaling cascade. Here, we investigate TirS, a Staphylococcus aureus TIR mimic that is part of a novel bacterial invasion mechanism. Its ectopic expression in eukaryotic cells inh...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Patot S,Imbert PR,Baude J,Martins Simões P,Campergue JB,Louche A,Nijland R,Bès M,Tristan A,Laurent F,Fischer A,Schrenzel J,Vandenesch F,Salcedo SP,François P,Lina G

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Endemic Burkitt's lymphoma (eBL) arises from the germinal center (GC). It is a common tumor of young children in tropical Africa and its occurrence is closely linked geographically with the incidence of P. falciparum malaria. This association was noted more than 50 years ago. Since then we have learned that eBL contai...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Torgbor C,Awuah P,Deitsch K,Kalantari P,Duca KA,Thorley-Lawson DA

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA deaminase APOBEC3G converts cytosines to uracils in retroviral cDNA, which are immortalized as genomic strand G-to-A hypermutations by reverse transcription. A single round of APOBEC3G-dependent mutagenesis can be catastrophic, but evidence suggests that sublethal levels contribute to viral genetic diversity a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Refsland EW,Hultquist JF,Harris RS

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:In bacteria, transformation and restriction-modification (R-M) systems play potentially antagonistic roles. While the former, proposed as a form of sexuality, relies on internalized foreign DNA to create genetic diversity, the latter degrade foreign DNA to protect from bacteriophage attack. The human pathogen Streptoc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Johnston C,Martin B,Granadel C,Polard P,Claverys JP

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:The host's immune system plays a key role in modulating growth of pathogens and the intestinal microbiota in the gut. In particular, inflammatory bowel disorders and pathogen infections induce shifts of the resident commensal microbiota which can result in overgrowth of Enterobacteriaceae ("inflammation-inflicted bloo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nedialkova LP,Denzler R,Koeppel MB,Diehl M,Ring D,Wille T,Gerlach RG,Stecher B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community acquired-methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is a socially problematic pathogen that infects healthy individuals, causing severe disease. CA-MRSA is more virulent than hospital associated-MRSA (HA-MRSA). The underlying mechanism for the high virulence of CA-MRSA is not known. The transcript...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kaito C,Saito Y,Ikuo M,Omae Y,Mao H,Nagano G,Fujiyuki T,Numata S,Han X,Obata K,Hasegawa S,Yamaguchi H,Inokuchi K,Ito T,Hiramatsu K,Sekimizu K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, has cholesterol and cholesterol-glycolipids that are essential for bacterial fitness, are antigenic, and could be important in mediating interactions with cells of the eukaryotic host. We show that the spirochetes can acquire cholesterol from plasma membranes of epithel...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crowley JT,Toledo AM,LaRocca TJ,Coleman JL,London E,Benach JL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant pathogens secrete an arsenal of effector proteins to impair host immunity. Some effectors possess enzymatic activities that can modify their host targets. Previously, we demonstrated that a Phytophthora sojae RXLR effector Avr3b acts as a Nudix hydrolase when expressed in planta; and this enzymatic activity is r...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kong G,Zhao Y,Jing M,Huang J,Yang J,Xia Y,Kong L,Ye W,Xiong Q,Qiao Y,Dong S,Ma W,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The tremendous success of S. aureus as a human pathogen has been explained primarily by its array of virulence factors that enable the organism to evade host immunity. Perhaps equally important, but less well understood, is the importance of the intensity of the host response in determining the extent of pathology ind...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Parker D,Planet PJ,Soong G,Narechania A,Prince A

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of the determinants of pathogen reservoir potential is central to understand disease emergence. It has been proposed that host lifespan is one such determinant: short-lived hosts will invest less in costly defenses against pathogens, so that they will be more susceptible to infection, more competent as ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hily JM,García A,Moreno A,Plaza M,Wilkinson MD,Fereres A,Fraile A,García-Arenal F

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) has antiviral functions and many viruses encode gene products that disrupt PML nuclear bodies (PML NBs). However, evidence of the relevance of PML NB modification for viral pathogenesis is limited and little is known about viral gene functions required for PML NB disruption in infe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang L,Oliver SL,Sommer M,Rajamani J,Reichelt M,Arvin AM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) capsid or core protein (HBc) contains an N-terminal domain (NTD) and a C-terminal domain (CTD) connected by a short linker peptide. HBc plays a critical role in virtually every step of viral replication, which is further modulated by dynamic phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of its CTD. Whi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Xi J,Luckenbaugh L,Hu J

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cassette of the cell wall integrity (CWI) pathway is primarily responsible for orchestrating changes of cell wall. However, functions of this cassette in other cellular processes are not well understood. Here, we found that the Botrytis cinerea mutant of MAPK kinase (BcMkk1)...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yin Y,Wu S,Chui C,Ma T,Jiang H,Hahn M,Ma Z

更新日期：2018-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is the most frequent cause of oral fungal infections. However, the exact pathogenicity mechanisms that this fungus employs are largely unknown and many of the genes expressed during oral infection are uncharacterized. In this study we sought to functionally characterize 12 previously unknown function ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mayer FL,Wilson D,Jacobsen ID,Miramón P,Große K,Hube B

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Apicomplexans are obligate intracellular parasites that actively penetrate their host cells to create an intracellular niche for replication. Commitment to invasion is thought to be mediated by the rhoptries, specialized apical secretory organelles that inject a protein complex into the host cell to form a tight-junct...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Beck JR,Fung C,Straub KW,Coppens I,Vashisht AA,Wohlschlegel JA,Bradley PJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaginal HIV transmission accounts for the majority of new infections worldwide. Currently, multiple efforts to prevent HIV transmission are based on pre-exposure prophylaxis with various antiretroviral drugs. Here, we describe two novel nanoformulations of the reverse transcriptase inhibitor rilpivirine for pericoital...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kovarova M,Council OD,Date AA,Long JM,Nochi T,Belshan M,Shibata A,Vincent H,Baker CE,Thayer WO,Kraus G,Lachaud-Durand S,Williams P,Destache CJ,Garcia JV

更新日期：2015-08-13 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：:Cells of the innate immune system act in synergy to provide a first line of defense against pathogens. Here we describe that dendritic cells (DCs), matured with viral products or mimics thereof, including Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), activated natural killer (NK) cells more efficiently than other mature DC preparations. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Strowig T,Brilot F,Arrey F,Bougras G,Thomas D,Muller WA,Münz C

更新日期：2008-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramyxoviruses are known to replicate in the cytoplasm and bud from the plasma membrane. Matrix is the major structural protein in paramyxoviruses that mediates viral assembly and budding. Curiously, the matrix proteins of a few paramyxoviruses have been found in the nucleus, although the biological function associat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang YE,Park A,Lake M,Pentecost M,Torres B,Yun TE,Wolf MC,Holbrook MR,Freiberg AN,Lee B

更新日期：2010-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal pathogen Candida albicans is frequently associated with catheter-based infections because of its ability to form resilient biofilms. Prior studies have shown that the transcription factor Bcr1 governs biofilm formation in an in vitro catheter model. However, the mechanistic role of the Bcr1 pathway and its ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nobile CJ,Andes DR,Nett JE,Smith FJ,Yue F,Phan QT,Edwards JE,Filler SG,Mitchell AP

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogenic bacterium Brucella generates a replicative vacuole (rBCV) derived from the endoplasmic reticulum via subversion of the host cell secretory pathway. rBCV biogenesis requires the expression of the Type IV secretion system (T4SS) VirB, which is thought to translocate effector proteins that mo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Myeni S,Child R,Ng TW,Kupko JJ 3rd,Wehrly TD,Porcella SF,Knodler LA,Celli J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase (RT) is the target for the majority of anti-HIV-1 drugs. As with all anti-AIDS treatments, continued success of RT inhibitors is persistently disrupted by the occurrence of resistance mutations. To explore latent resistance mechanisms potentially accessible to therapeutically challenged HIV-1 vir...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Galilee M,Alian A

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito-borne flaviviruses are among the most significant arboviral pathogens worldwide. Vaccinations and mosquito population control programs remain the most reliable means for flavivirus disease prevention, and live attenuated viruses remain one of the most attractive flavivirus vaccine platforms. Some live attenua...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tsetsarkin KA,Liu G,Kenney H,Bustos-Arriaga J,Hanson CT,Whitehead SS,Pletnev AG

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Eliciting broad tier 2 neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) is a major goal of HIV-1 vaccine research. Here we investigated the ability of native, membrane-expressed JR-FL Env trimers to elicit nAbs. Unusually potent nAb titers developed in 2 of 8 rabbits immunized with virus-like particles (VLPs) expressing trimers (trimer...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crooks ET,Tong T,Chakrabarti B,Narayan K,Georgiev IS,Menis S,Huang X,Kulp D,Osawa K,Muranaka J,Stewart-Jones G,Destefano J,O'Dell S,LaBranche C,Robinson JE,Montefiori DC,McKee K,Du SX,Doria-Rose N,Kwong PD,Mascola

更新日期：2015-05-29 00:00:00