Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of appressorium development by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.

abstract：:Highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza A viruses have spread throughout Asia, Europe, and Africa, raising serious worldwide concern about their pandemic potential. Although more than 250 people have been infected with these viruses, with a consequent high rate of mortality, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hatta M,Hatta Y,Kim JH,Watanabe S,Shinya K,Nguyen T,Lien PS,Le QM,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2007-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:B cell follicles in secondary lymphoid tissues represent an immune privileged sanctuary for AIDS viruses, in part because cytotoxic CD8+ T cells are mostly excluded from entering the follicles that harbor infected T follicular helper (TFH) cells. We studied the effects of native heterodimeric IL-15 (hetIL-15) treatmen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Watson DC,Moysi E,Valentin A,Bergamaschi C,Devasundaram S,Fortis SP,Bear J,Chertova E,Bess J Jr,Sowder R,Venzon DJ,Deleage C,Estes JD,Lifson JD,Petrovas C,Felber BK,Pavlakis GN

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterosexual risk group has become the largest HIV infected group in the United Kingdom during the last 10 years, but little is known of the network structure and dynamics of viral transmission in this group. The overwhelming majority of UK heterosexual infections are of non-B HIV subtypes, indicating viruses orig...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hughes GJ,Fearnhill E,Dunn D,Lycett SJ,Rambaut A,Leigh Brown AJ,UK HIV Drug Resistance Collaboration.

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus asymbiotica is one of the three recognized species of the Photorhabdus genus, which consists of gram-negative bioluminescent bacteria belonging to the family Morganellaceae. These bacteria live in a symbiotic relationship with nematodes from the genus Heterorhabditis, together forming a complex that is hi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Jančaříková G,Houser J,Dobeš P,Demo G,Hyršl P,Wimmerová M

更新日期：2017-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are constantly exposed to a large and diverse array of microbes; however, most plants are immune to the majority of potential invaders and susceptible to only a small subset of pathogens. The cytoskeleton comprises a dynamic intracellular framework that responds rapidly to biotic stresses and supports numerous ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Henty-Ridilla JL,Shimono M,Li J,Chang JH,Day B,Staiger CJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading viral cause of acute pediatric lower respiratory tract infections worldwide, with no available vaccine or effective antiviral drug. To gain insight into virus-host interactions, we performed a genome-wide siRNA screen. The expression of over 20,000 cellular genes ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lingemann M,McCarty T,Liu X,Buchholz UJ,Surman S,Martin SE,Collins PL,Munir S

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a Delta-proteobacterium that oscillates between free-living growth and predation on Gram-negative bacteria including important pathogens of man, animals and plants. After entering the prey periplasm, killing the prey and replicating inside the prey bdelloplast, several motile B. bacteriov...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hobley L,Fung RK,Lambert C,Harris MA,Dabhi JM,King SS,Basford SM,Uchida K,Till R,Ahmad R,Aizawa S,Gomelsky M,Sockett RE

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-like particles (VLPs) have not been observed in Caenorhabditis germ cells, although nematode genomes contain low numbers of retrotransposon and retroviral sequences. We used electron microscopy to search for VLPs in various wild strains of Caenorhabditis, and observed very rare candidate VLPs in some strains, in...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dennis S,Sheth U,Feldman JL,English KA,Priess JR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) is a human pathogen that causes acute and chronic pediatric diarrhea. The hallmark of EPEC infection is the formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions in the intestinal epithelium. Formation of A/E lesions is mediated by genes located on the pathogenicity island locus of enterocy...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cepeda-Molero M,Berger CN,Walsham ADS,Ellis SJ,Wemyss-Holden S,Schüller S,Frankel G,Fernández LÁ

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the within-host frequencies of resistance-associated amino acid variants (RAVs) is important to the identification of optimal drug combinations for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Multiple RAVs may exist in infected individuals, often below detection limits, at any resistance locus, de...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Raja R,Pareek A,Newar K,Dixit NM

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:The agr quorum-sensing system of Staphylococcus aureus modulates the expression of virulence factors in response to autoinducing peptides (AIPs). Recent studies have suggested a role for the agr system in S. aureus biofilm development, as agr mutants exhibit a high propensity to form biofilms, and cells dispersing fro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Boles BR,Horswill AR

更新日期：2008-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:For Hepatitis C virus (HCV), initiation of translation is cap-independently mediated by its internal ribosome entry site (IRES). Unlike other IRES-containing viruses that shut off host cap-dependent translation, translation of HCV coexists with that of the host. How HCV IRES-mediated translation is regulated in the in...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Huang JY,Su WC,Jeng KS,Chang TH,Lai MM

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:The factors determining the functional avidity and its relationship with the broad heterogeneity of antiviral T cell responses remain partially understood. We investigated HIV-specific CD8 T cell responses in 85 patients with primary HIV infection (PHI) or chronic (progressive and non-progressive) infection. The funct...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Viganò S,Bellutti Enders F,Miconnet I,Cellerai C,Savoye AL,Rozot V,Perreau M,Faouzi M,Ohmiti K,Cavassini M,Bart PA,Pantaleo G,Harari A

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:Inflammation is critical for controlling pathogens, but also responsible for symptoms of infectious diseases. IL-27 is an important regulator of inflammation and can limit development of IFNγ-producing Tbet+ CD4+ T (Th1) cells. IL-27 is thought to do this by stimulating IL-10 production by CD4+ T cells, but the underl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Montes de Oca M,de Labastida Rivera F,Winterford C,Frame TCM,Ng SS,Amante FH,Edwards CL,Bukali L,Wang Y,Uzonna JE,Kuns RD,Zhang P,Kabat A,Klein Geltink RI,Pearce EJ,Hill GR,Engwerda CR

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The SUPPRESSOR OF rps4-RLD1 (SRFR1) gene was identified based on enhanced AvrRps4-triggered resistance in the naturally susceptible Arabidopsis accession RLD. No other phenotypic effects were recorded, and the extent of SRFR1 involvement in regulating effector-triggered immunity was unknown. Here we show that mutation...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kim SH,Gao F,Bhattacharjee S,Adiasor JA,Nam JC,Gassmann W

更新日期：2010-11-04 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：:Staphylococcus aureus (SA) is the causative agent of both skin/soft tissue infections as well as invasive bloodstream infections. Though vaccines have been developed to target both humoral and T cell-mediated immune responses against SA, they have largely failed due to lack of protective efficacy. Group 1 CD1-restrict...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Visvabharathy L,Genardi S,Cao L,He Y,Alonzo F 3rd,Berdyshev E,Wang CR

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematode parasites secrete molecules which regulate the mammalian immune system, but their genetic intractability is a major impediment to identifying and characterising the biological effects of these molecules. We describe here a novel system for heterologous expression of helminth secreted proteins in the natural p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vaux R,Schnoeller C,Berkachy R,Roberts LB,Hagen J,Gounaris K,Selkirk ME

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African trypanosomes of the Trypanosoma brucei species are extra-cellular parasites that cause human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) as well as infections in game animals and livestock. Trypanosomes are known to evade the immune response of their mammalian host by continuous antigenic variation of their surface coat. He...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Radwanska M,Guirnalda P,De Trez C,Ryffel B,Black S,Magez S

更新日期：2008-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses have evolved several strategies to modify cellular processes and evade the immune response in order to successfully infect, replicate, and persist in the host. By utilizing in-silico testing of a transmembrane sequence library derived from virus protein sequences, we have pin-pointed a nine amino-acid motif sh...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cohen T,Cohen SJ,Antonovsky N,Cohen IR,Shai Y

更新日期：2010-09-02 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：:Hospitalization of the elderly for invasive pneumococcal disease is frequently accompanied by the occurrence of an adverse cardiac event; these are primarily new or worsened heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia. Herein, we describe previously unrecognized microscopic lesions (microlesions) formed within the myocardium...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brown AO,Mann B,Gao G,Hankins JS,Humann J,Giardina J,Faverio P,Restrepo MI,Halade GV,Mortensen EM,Lindsey ML,Hanes M,Happel KI,Nelson S,Bagby GJ,Lorent JA,Cardinal P,Granados R,Esteban A,LeSaux CJ,Tuomanen EI,Or

更新日期：2014-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The ascomycete fungus Fusarium graminearum causes stalk rot in maize. We tracked this pathogen's growth in wound-inoculated maize stalks using a fluorescence-labeled fungal isolate and observed that invasive hyphae grew intercellularly up to 24 h post inoculation, grew intra- and inter-cellularly between 36-48 h, and ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang Y,He J,Jia LJ,Yuan TL,Zhang D,Guo Y,Wang Y,Tang WH

更新日期：2016-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of intracellular pathogenic bacteria by members of the nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat containing (NLR) family triggers immune responses against bacterial infection. A major response induced by several Gram-negative bacteria is the activation of caspase-1 via the Nlrc4 inflammasome. Upon ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Suzuki S,Franchi L,He Y,Muñoz-Planillo R,Mimuro H,Suzuki T,Sasakawa C,Núñez G

更新日期：2014-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1) glycoprotein gE-gI is a transmembrane Fc receptor found on the surface of infected cells and virions that binds human immunoglobulin G (hIgG). gE-gI can also participate in antibody bipolar bridging (ABB), a process by which the antigen-binding fragments (Fabs) of the IgG bind a vira...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ndjamen B,Farley AH,Lee T,Fraser SE,Bjorkman PJ

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential transactivator function of the HIV Tat protein is regulated by multiple posttranslational modifications. Although individual modifications are well characterized, their crosstalk and dynamics of occurrence during the HIV transcription cycle remain unclear.We examine interactions between two critical modi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sakane N,Kwon HS,Pagans S,Kaehlcke K,Mizusawa Y,Kamada M,Lassen KG,Chan J,Greene WC,Schnoelzer M,Ott M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00