Transcriptional activation of the adenoviral genome is mediated by capsid protein VI.

abstract：:Members of the major candidate phylum Dependentiae (a.k.a. TM6) are widespread across diverse environments from showerheads to peat bogs; yet, with the exception of two isolates infecting amoebae, they are only known from metagenomic data. The limited knowledge of their biology indicates that they have a long evolutio...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Deeg CM,Zimmer MM,George EE,Husnik F,Keeling PJ,Suttle CA

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific and intervarietal hybridization may contribute to the biological diversity of fungal populations. Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic yeast and the most common fungal cause of meningitis in patients with AIDS. Most patients are infected with either of the two varieties of C. neoformans, designated as...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Litvintseva AP,Lin X,Templeton I,Heitman J,Mitchell TG

更新日期：2007-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Since mucosal surfaces may be simultaneously colonized by multiple species, the success of an organism may be determined by its ability to compete with co-inhabitants of its niche. To explore the contribution of host factors to polymicrobial competition, a murine model was used to study the initiation of colonization ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lysenko ES,Ratner AJ,Nelson AL,Weiser JN

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial bloodstream infections (BSI) are a major health concern and can cause up to 40% mortality. Pseudomonas aeruginosa BSI is often of nosocomial origin and is associated with a particularly poor prognosis. The mechanism of bacterial persistence in blood is still largely unknown. Here, we analyzed the behavior of...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pont S,Fraikin N,Caspar Y,Van Melderen L,Attrée I,Cretin F

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesviruses are antigenically rich agents that induce strong CD8+T cell responses in primary infection yet persist for life, continually challenging T cell memory through recurrent lytic replication and potentially influencing the spectrum of antigen-specific responses. Here we describe the first lytic proteom...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Forrest C,Hislop AD,Rickinson AB,Zuo J

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue is the most common mosquito-borne viral disease in humans. Changes of lipid-related metabolites in endoplasmic reticulum of dengue virus (DENV) infected cells have been associated with replicative complexes formation. Previously, we reported that DENV infection inhibits HMGCR phosphorylation generating a choles...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Soto-Acosta R,Bautista-Carbajal P,Cervantes-Salazar M,Angel-Ambrocio AH,Del Angel RM

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia utilizes a sophisticated type III secretion system to enhance its chances of survival and to overcome the host immune system. SmpB (small protein B) and SsrA (small stable RNA A) are components of a unique bacterial translational control system that help maintain the bacterial translational machinery in a ful...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Okan NA,Bliska JB,Karzai AW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of prion diseases is accurately predictable despite long latency periods, suggesting that prion pathogenesis is driven by precisely timed molecular events. We constructed a searchable genome-wide atlas of mRNA abundance and splicing alterations during the course of disease in prion-inoculated mice....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sorce S,Nuvolone M,Russo G,Chincisan A,Heinzer D,Avar M,Pfammatter M,Schwarz P,Delic M,Müller M,Hornemann S,Sanoudou D,Scheckel C,Aguzzi A

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular pathogens must withstand nitric oxide (NO.) generated by host phagocytes. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium interferes with intracellular trafficking of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and possesses multiple systems to detoxify NO.. Consequently, the level of NO. stress encountered by S. Typ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Richardson AR,Soliven KC,Castor ME,Barnes PD,Libby SJ,Fang FC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is a global health burden and the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea worldwide, causing severe gastrointestinal disease and death. Three well characterised toxins are encoded by this bacterium in two genetic loci, specifically, TcdB (toxin B) and TcdA (toxin A) in the Pathogenicity ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lyon SA,Hutton ML,Rood JI,Cheung JK,Lyras D

更新日期：2016-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus usurps host signaling factors to regulate its replication. One example is mTOR, a cellular regulator of protein synthesis, growth and motility. While the role of mTORC1 in viral infection has been studied, the mechanisms that induce mTORC1 activation and the substrates regulated by mTORC1 during infl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kuss-Duerkop SK,Wang J,Mena I,White K,Metreveli G,Sakthivel R,Mata MA,Muñoz-Moreno R,Chen X,Krammer F,Diamond MS,Chen ZJ,García-Sastre A,Fontoura BMA

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component, self-assembling nanoparticles represent a versatile platform for multivalent presentation of viral antigens. Computational design of protein nanoparticles with differing sizes and geometries enables combination with antigens of choice to test novel multimerization concepts in immunization strategies whe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Antanasijevic A,Ueda G,Brouwer PJM,Copps J,Huang D,Allen JD,Cottrell CA,Yasmeen A,Sewall LM,Bontjer I,Ketas TJ,Turner HL,Berndsen ZT,Montefiori DC,Klasse PJ,Crispin M,Nemazee D,Moore JP,Sanders RW,King NP,Baker D

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain pathogens deliver effectors into plant cells to modify host protein targets and thereby suppress immunity. These target modifications can be detected by intracellular immune receptors, or Resistance (R) proteins, that trigger strong immune responses including localized host cell death. The accelerated cell dea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Palma K,Thorgrimsen S,Malinovsky FG,Fiil BK,Nielsen HB,Brodersen P,Hofius D,Petersen M,Mundy J

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylated derivatives of phosphatidylinositol (PIPs) are key membrane lipid residues involved in clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME). CME relies on PIP species PI(4,5)P2 to mark endocytic sites at the plasma membrane (PM) associated to clathrin-coated vesicle (CCV) formation. The highly diverged parasitic protist...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cernikova L,Faso C,Hehl AB

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The 14-3-3 molecular scaffolds promote type I interferon (IFN) responses by stabilizing the interaction of RIG-I with the TRIM25 ligase. Viruses have evolved unique strategies to halt this cellular response to support their replication and spread. Here, we report that the ubiquitin deconjugase (DUB) encoded in the N-t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gupta S,Ylä-Anttila P,Sandalova T,Sun R,Achour A,Masucci MG

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions of influenza A virus (IAV) with sialic acid (SIA) receptors determine viral fitness and host tropism. Binding to mucus decoy receptors and receptors on epithelial host cells is determined by a receptor-binding hemagglutinin (HA), a receptor-destroying neuraminidase (NA) and a complex in vivo receptor-repe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Guo H,Rabouw H,Slomp A,Dai M,van der Vegt F,van Lent JWM,McBride R,Paulson JC,de Groot RJ,van Kuppeveld FJM,de Vries E,de Haan CAM

更新日期：2018-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies identified prion protein (PrP) mutants which act as dominant negative inhibitors of prion formation through a mechanism hypothesized to require an unidentified species-specific cofactor termed protein X. To study the mechanism of dominant negative inhibition in vitro, we used recombinant PrP(C) molecu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Geoghegan JC,Miller MB,Kwak AH,Harris BT,Supattapone S

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, innate immune responses are initiated by plasma membrane-located pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) upon recognition of elicitors, including exogenous pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and endogenous damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). Arabidopsis thaliana produces more than 1000 se...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hou S,Wang X,Chen D,Yang X,Wang M,Turrà D,Di Pietro A,Zhang W

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004331.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： PLOS Pathogens Staff.

更新日期：2015-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of liver disease worldwide. The HCV RNA genome is translated into a single polyprotein. Most of the cleavage sites in the non-structural (NS) polyprotein region are processed by the NS3/NS4A serine protease. The vital NS2-NS3 cleavage is catalyzed by the NS2 autopro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Isken O,Langerwisch U,Jirasko V,Rehders D,Redecke L,Ramanathan H,Lindenbach BD,Bartenschlager R,Tautz N

更新日期：2015-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical aspects of HIV-1 infection occur in mucosal tissues, particularly in the gut, which contains large numbers of HIV-1 target cells that are depleted early in infection. We used electron tomography (ET) to image HIV-1 in gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) of HIV-1-infected humanized mice, the first three-dime...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ladinsky MS,Kieffer C,Olson G,Deruaz M,Vrbanac V,Tager AM,Kwon DS,Bjorkman PJ

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Remodelling of the actin cytoskeleton in response to external stimuli is obligatory for many cellular processes in the amoebic cell. A rapid and local rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton is required for the development of the cellular protrusions during phagocytosis, trogocytosis, migration, and invasion. Here, we...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tripathi A,Jain M,Chandra M,Parveen S,Yadav R,Collins BM,Maiti S,Datta S

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Competence stimulating peptide (CSP) is a 17-amino acid peptide pheromone secreted by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Upon binding of CSP to its membrane-associated receptor kinase ComD, a cascade of signaling events is initiated, leading to activation of the competence regulon by the response regulator ComE. Genes encoding...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhu L,Lau GW

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RsaE is a conserved small regulatory RNA (sRNA) which was previously reported to represent a riboregulator of central carbon flow and other metabolic pathways in Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis. Here we show that RsaE contributes to extracellular (e)DNA release and biofilm-matrix switching towards polysacc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schoenfelder SMK,Lange C,Prakash SA,Marincola G,Lerch MF,Wencker FDR,Förstner KU,Sharma CM,Ziebuhr W

更新日期：2019-03-14 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：:We have previously shown that the Mycobacterium tuberculosis universal stress protein Rv2623 regulates mycobacterial growth and may be required for the establishment of tuberculous persistence. Here, yeast two-hybrid and affinity chromatography experiments have demonstrated that Rv2623 interacts with one of the two fo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Glass LN,Swapna G,Chavadi SS,Tufariello JM,Mi K,Drumm JE,Lam TT,Zhu G,Zhan C,Vilchéze C,Arcos J,Chen Y,Bi L,Mehta S,Porcelli SA,Almo SC,Yeh SR,Jacobs WR Jr,Torrelles JB,Chan J

更新日期：2017-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A global increase in invasive infections due to group A Streptococcus (S. pyogenes or GAS) has been observed since the 1980s, associated with emergence of a clonal group of strains of the M1T1 serotype. Among other virulence attributes, the M1T1 clone secretes NAD+-glycohydrolase (NADase). When GAS binds to epithelial...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sharma O,O'Seaghdha M,Velarde JJ,Wessels MR

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial pathogens often establish infection within particular niches of their host for replication. Determining how infection occurs preferentially in specific host tissues is a key aspect of understanding host-microbe interactions. Here, we describe the discovery of a natural microsporidian parasite of the nematode...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Luallen RJ,Reinke AW,Tong L,Botts MR,Félix MA,Troemel ER

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mokola virus (MOKV) belongs to the lyssavirus genus. As other genus members-including rabies virus (RABV)-it causes deadly encephalitis in mammals. MOKV entry into host cells is mediated by its transmembrane glycoprotein G. First, G binds cellular receptors, triggering virion endocytosis. Then, in the acidic endosomal...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Belot L,Ouldali M,Roche S,Legrand P,Gaudin Y,Albertini AA

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic mechanisms and chromatin structure play an important role in development. Their impact is therefore expected to be strong in parasites with complex life cycles and multiple, strikingly different, developmental stages, i.e. developmental plasticity. Some studies have already described how the chromatin struc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Roquis D,Taudt A,Geyer KK,Padalino G,Hoffmann KF,Holroyd N,Berriman M,Aliaga B,Chaparro C,Grunau C,Augusto RC

更新日期：2018-05-21 00:00:00