The Vibrio cholerae colonization factor GbpA possesses a modular structure that governs binding to different host surfaces.

abstract：:Acute resistance to low dose M. tuberculosis (Mtb) infection is not dependent on Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2. However, whether TLR2 contributes to resistance in chronic Mtb infection has remained uncertain. Here we report that, following low dose aerosol infection with Mtb, mice lacking TLR2 (TLR2KO), in comparison wit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： McBride A,Konowich J,Salgame P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola (EBOV) and Marburg (MARV) viruses are members of the Filoviridae family which cause outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever. The filovirus VP40 matrix protein is essential for virus assembly and budding, and its PPxY L-domain motif interacts with WW-domains of specific host proteins, such as Nedd4 and ITCH, to facilitate...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Liang J,Sagum CA,Bedford MT,Sidhu SS,Sudol M,Han Z,Harty RN

更新日期：2017-01-11 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：: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：: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：: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：:During blood stage Plasmodium falciparum infection, merozoites invade uninfected erythrocytes via a complex, multistep process involving a series of distinct receptor-ligand binding events. Understanding each element in this process increases the potential to block the parasite's life cycle via drugs or vaccines. To i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Weiss GE,Gilson PR,Taechalertpaisarn T,Tham WH,de Jong NW,Harvey KL,Fowkes FJ,Barlow PN,Rayner JC,Wright GJ,Cowman AF,Crabb BS

更新日期：2015-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain cutaneous human papillomaviruses (HPVs), which are ubiquitous and acquired early during childhood, can cause a variety of skin tumors and are likely involved in the development of non-melanoma skin cancer, especially in immunosuppressed patients. Hence, the burden of these clinical manifestations demands for a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vinzón SE,Braspenning-Wesch I,Müller M,Geissler EK,Nindl I,Gröne HJ,Schäfer K,Rösl F

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of Toll pathway defense against bacterial infection has been well established in shrimp, however how this pathway responds to viral infection is still largely unknown. In this study, we report the Toll4-Dorsal-AMPs cascade restricts the white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) infection of shrimp. A total of nine...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li H,Yin B,Wang S,Fu Q,Xiao B,Lǚ K,He J,Li C

更新日期：2018-09-26 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：:The retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I)-like receptors (RLRs), including RIG-I and melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5), sense cytoplasmic viral RNA and initiate innate antiviral responses. How RIG-I and MDA5 are differentially regulated remains enigmatic. In this study, we identified the guanylate-bin...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhong X,Feng L,Zang R,Lei CQ,Yang Q,Shu HB

更新日期：2020-04-06 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：:Future HIV vaccines are expected to induce effective Th1 cell-mediated and Env-specific antibody responses that are necessary to offer protective immunity to HIV infection. However, HIV infections are highly prevalent in helminth endemic areas. Helminth infections induce polarised Th2 responses that may impair HIV vac...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dzhivhuho GA,Rehrl SA,Ndlovu H,Horsnell WGC,Brombacher F,Williamson AL,Chege GK

更新日期：2018-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis is sensitive to nitric oxide generated by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). Consequently, to ensure its survival in macrophages, M. tuberculosis inhibits iNOS recruitment to its phagosome by an unknown mechanism. Here we report the mechanism underlying this process, whereby mycobacteri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Davis AS,Vergne I,Master SS,Kyei GB,Chua J,Deretic V

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous pathogen that can cause disability in newborns and serious clinical diseases in immunocompromised patients. HCMV has a large genome with enormous coding potential; its viral particles are equipped with complicated glycoprotein complexes and can infect a wide range of human ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ye X,Gui X,Freed DC,Ku Z,Li L,Chen Y,Xiong W,Fan X,Su H,He X,Rustandi RR,Loughney JW,Ma N,Espeseth AS,Liu J,Zhu H,Wang D,Zhang N,Fu TM,An Z

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The envelope glycoprotein (Env) of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) is a critical determinant of viral infectivity, tropism and is the main target for humoral immunity; however, little is known about the cellular machinery that directs Env trafficking and its incorporation into nascent virions. Here we ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Groppelli E,Len AC,Granger LA,Jolly C

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, caused by the apicomplexan parasite Plasmodium, still represents a major threat to human health and welfare and leads to about one million human deaths annually. Plasmodium is a rapidly multiplying unicellular organism undergoing a complex developmental cycle in man and mosquito - a life style that requires r...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kehr S,Sturm N,Rahlfs S,Przyborski JM,Becker K

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of the annual influenza vaccine has declined in recent years, especially for the H3N2 component, and is a concern for global public health. A major cause for this lack in effectiveness has been attributed to the egg-based vaccine production process. Substitutions on the hemagglutinin glycoprotein (HA...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wu NC,Zost SJ,Thompson AJ,Oyen D,Nycholat CM,McBride R,Paulson JC,Hensley SE,Wilson IA

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV capsid self-assembles a protective conical shell that simultaneously prevents host sensing whilst permitting the import of nucleotides to drive DNA synthesis. This is accomplished through the construction of dynamic, highly charged pores at the centre of each capsid multimer. The clustering of charges required...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Renner N,Mallery DL,Faysal KMR,Peng W,Jacques DA,Böcking T,James LC

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive-strand RNA viruses replicate in host cells by forming large viral replication organelles, which harbor numerous membrane-bound viral replicase complexes (VRCs). In spite of its essential role in viral replication, the biogenesis of the VRCs is not fully understood. The authors identified critical roles of cel...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Feng Z,Kovalev N,Nagy PD

更新日期：2020-12-28 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：:The life cycle of the mammalian pathogen Trypanosoma brucei involves commuting between two markedly different environments: the homeothermic mammalian host and the poikilothermic invertebrate vector. The ability to resist temperature and other stresses is essential for trypanosome survival. Trypanosome gene expression...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Minia I,Clayton C

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae, the fungus causing rice blast disease, should contend with host innate immunity to develop invasive hyphae (IH) within living host cells. However, molecular strategies to establish the biotrophic interactions are largely unknown. Here, we report the biological function of a M. oryzae-specific gene,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nishimura T,Mochizuki S,Ishii-Minami N,Fujisawa Y,Kawahara Y,Yoshida Y,Okada K,Ando S,Matsumura H,Terauchi R,Minami E,Nishizawa Y

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial infection leads to activation of the RIG-I/MAVS/TBK1 RNA sensing pathway in macrophages but the consequences of this activation remains poorly defined. In this study, we determined that activation of this RNA sensing pathway stimulates ICAM-1 expression in M.avium-infected macrophage through the inhibiti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cheng Y,Kiene NJ,Tatarian A,Eix EF,Schorey JS

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania donovani causes visceral leishmaniasis (VL), which is typically fatal without treatment. There is substantial variation between individuals in rates of disease progression, response to treatment and incidence of post-treatment sequelae, specifically post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL). Nevertheless, ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lewis MD,Paun A,Romano A,Langston H,Langner CA,Moore IN,Bock KW,Francisco AF,Brenchley JM,Sacks DL

更新日期：2020-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease in humans is caused by several genospecies of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) complex of spirochetal bacteria, including B. burgdorferi, B. afzelii and B. garinii. These bacteria exist in nature as obligate parasites in an enzootic cycle between small vertebrate hosts and Ixodid tick vectors, w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bhatia B,Hillman C,Carracoi V,Cheff BN,Tilly K,Rosa PA

更新日期：2018-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is currently the only approved vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) and is administered in over 150 countries worldwide. Despite its widespread use, the vaccine has a variable protective efficacy of 0-80%, with the lowest efficacy rates in tropical regions where TB is most prevalent. This va...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Price DN,Kusewitt DF,Lino CA,McBride AA,Muttil P

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated protein secretion is required for malaria parasite life cycle progression and transmission between the mammalian host and mosquito vector. During transmission from the host to the vector, exocytosis of highly specialised secretory vesicles, such as osmiophilic bodies, is key to the dissolution of the red blo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kehrer J,Singer M,Lemgruber L,Silva PA,Frischknecht F,Mair GR

更新日期：2016-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of multi-drug (MDR-TB) and extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a major threat to the global management of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. New chemical entities are of need to treat drug-resistant TB. In this study, the mode of action of new, potent quinazoline derivatives was investigated ag...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lupien A,Foo CS,Savina S,Vocat A,Piton J,Monakhova N,Benjak A,Lamprecht DA,Steyn AJC,Pethe K,Makarov VA,Cole ST

更新日期：2020-01-23 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