Systems biology approaches reveal a specific interferon-inducible signature in HTLV-1 associated myelopathy.

abstract：:The metabolic events associated with maintaining redox homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) during infection are poorly understood. Here, we discovered a novel redox switching mechanism by which Mtb WhiB3 under defined oxidizing and reducing conditions differentially modulates the assimilation of propionate...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Singh A,Crossman DK,Mai D,Guidry L,Voskuil MI,Renfrow MB,Steyn AJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of viruses to mutagenic agents is an important problem for the development of lethal mutagenesis as an antiviral strategy. Previous studies with RNA viruses have documented that resistance to the mutagenic nucleoside analogue ribavirin (1-β-D-ribofuranosyl-1-H-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide) is mediated by am...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Agudo R,Ferrer-Orta C,Arias A,de la Higuera I,Perales C,Pérez-Luque R,Verdaguer N,Domingo E

更新日期：2010-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of next-generation sequencing platforms is set to reveal an unprecedented level of detail on short-term molecular evolutionary processes in bacteria. Here we re-analyse genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) datasets for recently emerged clones of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Castillo-Ramírez S,Harris SR,Holden MT,He M,Parkhill J,Bentley SD,Feil EJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and related lymphocryptoviruses (LCV) from non-human primates infect B cells, transform their growth to facilitate life-long viral persistence in the host, and contribute to B cell oncogenesis. Co-evolution of LCV with their primate hosts has led to species-specificity so that LCVs preferentia...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mühe J,Wang F

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative-sense RNA viruses assemble large ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes that direct replication and transcription of the viral genome. Influenza virus RNPs contain the polymerase, genomic RNA and multiple copies of nucleoprotein (NP). During RNP assembly, monomeric NP oligomerizes along the length of the genomic R...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mondal A,Potts GK,Dawson AR,Coon JJ,Mehle A

更新日期：2015-04-13 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005032.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yelamanchili SV,Lamberty BG,Rennard DA,Morsey BM,Hochfelder CG,Meays BM,Levy E,Fox HS

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a pandemic. Critical to the rapid evaluation of vaccines and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 is the development of tractable animal models to understand the adaptive immune response to the virus. To this end, the use of ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hassert M,Geerling E,Stone ET,Steffen TL,Feldman MS,Dickson AL,Class J,Richner JM,Brien JD,Pinto AK

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncovering how natural selection and genetic drift shape the evolutionary dynamics of virus populations within their hosts can pave the way to a better understanding of virus emergence. Mathematical models already play a leading role in these studies and are intended to predict future emergences. Here, using high-thro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Fabre F,Montarry J,Coville J,Senoussi R,Simon V,Moury B

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:It is poorly understood how progressive brain swelling in experimental cerebral malaria (ECM) evolves in space and over time, and whether mechanisms of inflammation or microvascular sequestration/obstruction dominate the underlying pathophysiology. We therefore monitored in the Plasmodium berghei ANKA-C57BL/6 murine E...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hoffmann A,Pfeil J,Alfonso J,Kurz FT,Sahm F,Heiland S,Monyer H,Bendszus M,Mueller AK,Helluy X,Pham M

更新日期：2016-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), remnants of ancient germline infections, comprise 8% of the human genome. The most recently integrated includes human ERV-K (HERV-K) where several envelope (env) sequences remain intact. Viral pseudotypes decorated with one of those Envs are infectious. Using a recombinant vesicular sto...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Robinson-McCarthy LR,McCarthy KR,Raaben M,Piccinotti S,Nieuwenhuis J,Stubbs SH,Bakkers MJG,Whelan SPJ

更新日期：2018-08-06 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：: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：:We report the identification of a novel polyomavirus present in respiratory secretions from human patients with symptoms of acute respiratory tract infection. The virus was initially detected in a nasopharyngeal aspirate from a 3-year-old child from Australia diagnosed with pneumonia. A random library was generated fr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gaynor AM,Nissen MD,Whiley DM,Mackay IM,Lambert SB,Wu G,Brennan DC,Storch GA,Sloots TP,Wang D

更新日期：2007-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymph nodes (LN) and their resident T follicular helper CD4+ T cells (Tfh) are a critical site for HIV replication and persistence. Therefore, optimizing antiviral activity in lymphoid tissues will be needed to reduce or eliminate the HIV reservoir. In this study, we retained effector immune cells in LN of cART-suppre...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pino M,Paganini S,Deleage C,Padhan K,Harper JL,King CT,Micci L,Cervasi B,Mudd JC,Gill KP,Jean SM,Easley K,Silvestri G,Estes JD,Petrovas C,Lederman MM,Paiardini M

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In host-pathogen interactions, the struggle for iron may have major consequences on the outcome of the disease. To overcome the low solubility and bio-availability of iron, bacteria have evolved multiple systems to acquire iron from various sources such as heme, hemoglobin and ferritin. The molecular basis of iron acq...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Segond D,Abi Khalil E,Buisson C,Daou N,Kallassy M,Lereclus D,Arosio P,Bou-Abdallah F,Nielsen Le Roux C

更新日期：2014-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 replicative capacity (RC) provides a measure of within-host fitness and is determined in the context of phenotypic drug resistance testing. However it is unclear how these in-vitro measurements relate to in-vivo processes. Here we assess RCs in a clinical setting by combining a previously published machine-learn...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kouyos RD,von Wyl V,Hinkley T,Petropoulos CJ,Haddad M,Whitcomb JM,Böni J,Yerly S,Cellerai C,Klimkait T,Günthard HF,Bonhoeffer S,Swiss HIV Cohort Study.

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a quantitative analysis of the HLA restriction, antigen and epitope specificity of human pathogen specific responses in healthy individuals infected with M. tuberculosis (Mtb), in a South African cohort as a test case. The results estimate the breadth of T cell responses for the first time in the context ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lindestam Arlehamn CS,McKinney DM,Carpenter C,Paul S,Rozot V,Makgotlho E,Gregg Y,van Rooyen M,Ernst JD,Hatherill M,Hanekom WA,Peters B,Scriba TJ,Sette A

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) T cells are essential for the control of Yersinia enterocolitica (Ye) infection in mice. Ye can inhibit dendritic cell (DC) antigen uptake and degradation, maturation and subsequently T-cell activation in vitro. Here we investigated the effects of Ye infection on splenic DCs and T-cell proliferation in an exper...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Autenrieth SE,Linzer TR,Hiller C,Keller B,Warnke P,Köberle M,Bohn E,Biedermann T,Bühring HJ,Hämmerling GJ,Rammensee HG,Autenrieth IB

更新日期：2010-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) in somatic hypermutation and polyclonal antibody affinity maturation has not been shown for polyclonal responses in humans. We investigated whether AID induction in human B cells following H1N1pdm09 vaccination correlated with in-vivo antibody affinity maturation...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Khurana S,Frasca D,Blomberg B,Golding H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum, possesses a bacterial-type lactate dehydrogenase (CpLDH). This is considered to be an essential enzyme, as this parasite lacks the Krebs cycle and cytochrome-based respiration, and mainly-if not solely, relies on glycolysis to produce ATP. Here, we provide evidence that in ext...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang H,Guo F,Zhu G

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial processing peptidases are heterodimeric enzymes (alpha/betaMPP) that play an essential role in mitochondrial biogenesis by recognizing and cleaving the targeting presequences of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins. The two subunits are paralogues that probably evolved by duplication of a gene for a mo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Smíd O,Matusková A,Harris SR,Kucera T,Novotný M,Horváthová L,Hrdý I,Kutejová E,Hirt RP,Embley TM,Janata J,Tachezy J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is essential for nearly all bacterial pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), but is severely limited in the human host. To meet its iron needs, Mtb secretes siderophores, small molecules with high affinity for iron, and takes up iron-loaded mycobactins (MBT) and carboxymycobactins (cMBT), from the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang L,Hendrickson RC,Meikle V,Lefkowitz EJ,Ioerger TR,Niederweis M

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant number of environmental microorganisms can cause serious, even fatal, acute and chronic infections in humans. The severity and outcome of each type of infection depends on the expression of specific bacterial phenotypes controlled by complex regulatory networks that sense and respond to the host environm...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kesarwani M,Hazan R,He J,Que YA,Apidianakis Y,Lesic B,Xiao G,Dekimpe V,Milot S,Deziel E,Lépine F,Rahme LG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, undergoes morphological and transcriptional adaptation in the switch from commensalism to pathogenicity. Although previous gene-knockout studies have identified many factors involved in this transformation, it remains unclear how these factors are regulated to...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Greig JA,Sudbery IM,Richardson JP,Naglik JR,Wang Y,Sudbery PE

更新日期：2015-01-24 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：:In human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), tropism to epithelial and endothelial cells is dependent upon a pentameric complex (PC). Given the structure of the placenta, the PC is potentially an important neutralizing antibody target antigen against congenital infection. The guinea pig is the only small animal model for congenit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Coleman S,Choi KY,Root M,McGregor A

更新日期：2016-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:All pathogenesis and death associated with Plasmodium falciparum malaria is due to parasite-infected erythrocytes. Invasion of erythrocytes by P. falciparum merozoites requires specific interactions between host receptors and parasite ligands that are localized in apical organelles called micronemes. Here, we identify...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dawn A,Singh S,More KR,Siddiqui FA,Pachikara N,Ramdani G,Langsley G,Chitnis CE

更新日期：2014-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The process by which drug-resistant HIV-1 arises and spreads spatially within an infected individual is poorly understood. Studies have found variable results relating how HIV-1 in the blood differs from virus sampled in tissues, offering conflicting findings about whether HIV-1 throughout the body is homogeneously di...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Feder AF,Kline C,Polacino P,Cottrell M,Kashuba ADM,Keele BF,Hu SL,Petrov DA,Pennings PS,Ambrose Z

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00