Interferon-induced Ifit2/ISG54 protects mice from lethal VSV neuropathogenesis.

abstract：:Inactivation of host Rho GTPases is a widespread strategy employed by bacterial pathogens to manipulate mammalian cellular functions and avoid immune defenses. Some bacterial toxins mimic eukaryotic Rho GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) to inactivate mammalian GTPases, probably as a result of evolutionary convergence....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Colinet D,Schmitz A,Depoix D,Crochard D,Poirié M

更新日期：2007-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) is a widespread RNA virus of honey bees that has been linked with colony losses. Here we describe the transmission, prevalence, and genetic traits of this virus, along with host transcriptional responses to infections. Further, we present RNAi-based strategies for limiting an impor...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen YP,Pettis JS,Corona M,Chen WP,Li CJ,Spivak M,Visscher PK,DeGrandi-Hoffman G,Boncristiani H,Zhao Y,vanEngelsdorp D,Delaplane K,Solter L,Drummond F,Kramer M,Lipkin WI,Palacios G,Hamilton MC,Smith B,Huang SK,Zhe

更新日期：2014-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetherin, also known as BST2, CD317 or HM1.24, was recently identified as an interferon-inducible host-cell factor that interferes with the detachment of virus particles from infected cells. HIV-1 overcomes this restriction by expressing an accessory protein, Vpu, which counteracts tetherin. Since lentiviruses of the ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Jia B,Serra-Moreno R,Neidermyer W,Rahmberg A,Mackey J,Fofana IB,Johnson WE,Westmoreland S,Evans DT

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS, a.k.a. MB21D1), a cytosolic DNA sensor, catalyzes formation of the second messenger 2'3'-cGAMP that activates the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) signaling. How the cGAS activity is modulated remains largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that sentrin/SUMO-specific protease...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cui Y,Yu H,Zheng X,Peng R,Wang Q,Zhou Y,Wang R,Wang J,Qu B,Shen N,Guo Q,Liu X,Wang C

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat-containing (NLR) class of immune receptors of plants and animals recognize pathogen-encoded proteins and trigger host defenses. Although animal NLRs form oligomers upon pathogen recognition to activate downstream signaling, the mechanisms of plant NLR activation remain large...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang J,Chen T,Han M,Qian L,Li J,Wu M,Han T,Cao J,Nagalakshmi U,Rathjen JP,Hong Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiretroviral therapy, antibody and CD8+ T cell-mediated responses targeting human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) exert selection pressure on the virus necessitating escape; however, the ability of CD4+ T cells to exert selective pressure remains unclear. Using a computational approach on HIV gag/pol/nef sequences ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Erdmann N,Du VY,Carlson J,Schaefer M,Jureka A,Sterrett S,Yue L,Dilernia D,Lakhi S,Tang J,Sidney J,Gilmour J,Allen S,Hunter E,Heath S,Bansal A,Goepfert PA

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ronald Ross and George Macdonald are credited with developing a mathematical model of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission. A systematic historical review suggests that several mathematicians and scientists contributed to development of the Ross-Macdonald model over a period of 70 years. Ross developed two different m...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Smith DL,Battle KE,Hay SI,Barker CM,Scott TW,McKenzie FE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) is an approved smallpox vaccine and a promising vaccine vector for other pathogens as well as for cancer therapeutics with more than 200 current or completed clinical trials. MVA was derived by passaging the parental Ankara vaccine virus hundreds of times in chick embryo fibroblast...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Peng C,Wyatt LS,Glushakow-Smith SG,Lal-Nag M,Weisberg AS,Moss B

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertical transmission (VT) and horizontal transmission (HT) of pathogens refer to parental and non-parental chains of host-to-host transmission. Combining HT with VT enlarges considerably the range of ecological conditions in which a pathogen can persist, but the factors governing the relative frequency of each transm...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lequime S,Paul RE,Lambrechts L

更新日期：2016-05-12 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：:Successful infection of the host requires secretion of effector proteins to evade or suppress plant immunity. Secretion of effectors in root-infecting fungal pathogens, however, remains unexplored. We previously reported that Verticillium dahliae, a root-infecting phytopathogenic fungus, develops a penetration peg fro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhou TT,Zhao YL,Guo HS

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To guide control policies, it is important that the determinants of influenza transmission are fully characterized. Such assessment is complex because the risk of influenza infection is multifaceted and depends both on immunity acquired naturally or via vaccination and on the individual level of exposure to influenza ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cauchemez S,Ferguson NM,Fox A,Mai le Q,Thanh le T,Thai PQ,Thoang DD,Duong TN,Minh Hoa le N,Tran Hien N,Horby P

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Septic shock caused by Neisseria meningitidis is typically rapidly evolving and often fatal despite antibiotic therapy. Further understanding of the mechanisms underlying the disease is necessary to reduce fatality rates. Postmortem samples from the characteristic purpuric rashes of the infection show bacterial aggreg...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Melican K,Michea Veloso P,Martin T,Bruneval P,Duménil G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic regulation of leukocyte population size and activation state is crucial for an effective immune response. In malaria, Plasmodium parasites elicit robust host expansion of macrophages and monocytes, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here we show that myeloid expansion during P. chabaudi infection is...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Fontana MF,de Melo GL,Anidi C,Hamburger R,Kim CY,Lee SY,Pham J,Kim CC

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse polyomavirus (MPyV) lytically infects mouse cells, transforms rat cells in culture, and is highly oncogenic in rodents. We have used deep sequencing to follow MPyV infection of mouse NIH3T6 cells at various times after infection and analyzed both the viral and cellular transcriptomes. Alignment of sequencing rea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Garren SB,Kondaveeti Y,Duff MO,Carmichael GG

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease phenotype of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and the molecular/ biological properties of its prion strain, including the host range and the characteristics of BSE-related disorders, have been extensively studied since its discovery in 1986. In recent years, systematic testing of the brains of cattle...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lombardi G,Casalone C,D' Angelo A,Gelmetti D,Torcoli G,Barbieri I,Corona C,Fasoli E,Farinazzo A,Fiorini M,Gelati M,Iulini B,Tagliavini F,Ferrari S,Caramelli M,Monaco S,Capucci L,Zanusso G

更新日期：2008-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics and regulation of HIV-1 nuclear import and its intranuclear movements after import have not been studied. To elucidate these essential HIV-1 post-entry events, we labeled viral complexes with two fluorescently tagged virion-incorporated proteins (APOBEC3F or integrase), and analyzed the HIV-1 dynamics of ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Burdick RC,Delviks-Frankenberry KA,Chen J,Janaka SK,Sastri J,Hu WS,Pathak VK

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary reservoir for HIV is within memory CD4+ T cells residing within tissues, yet the features that make some of these cells more susceptible than others to infection by HIV is not well understood. Recent studies demonstrated that CCR5-tropic HIV-1 efficiently enters tissue-derived memory CD4+ T cells expressin...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hsiao F,Frouard J,Gramatica A,Xie G,Telwatte S,Lee GQ,Roychoudhury P,Schwarzer R,Luo X,Yukl SA,Lee S,Hoh R,Deeks SG,Jones RB,Cavrois M,Greene WC,Roan NR

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestine is a common site for invasion by intracellular pathogens, but little is known about how pathogens restructure and exit intestinal cells in vivo. The natural microsporidian parasite N. parisii invades intestinal cells of the nematode C. elegans, progresses through its life cycle, and then exits cells in a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Estes KA,Szumowski SC,Troemel ER

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SAMHD1 restricts HIV-1 infection of myeloid-lineage and resting CD4+ T-cells. Most likely this occurs through deoxynucleoside triphosphate triphosphohydrolase activity that reduces cellular dNTP to a level where reverse transcriptase cannot function, although alternative mechanisms have been proposed recently. Here, w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Arnold LH,Groom HC,Kunzelmann S,Schwefel D,Caswell SJ,Ordonez P,Mann MC,Rueschenbaum S,Goldstone DC,Pennell S,Howell SA,Stoye JP,Webb M,Taylor IA,Bishop KN

更新日期：2015-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus (EBOV) is a highly pathogenic filovirus that causes hemorrhagic fever in humans and animals. Currently, how EBOV fuses its envelope membrane within an endosomal membrane to cause infection is poorly understood. We successfully measure cell-cell fusion mediated by the EBOV fusion protein, GP, assayed by the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Markosyan RM,Miao C,Zheng YM,Melikyan GB,Liu SL,Cohen FS

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardioviruses, including encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) and the human Saffold virus, are small non-enveloped viruses belonging to the Picornaviridae, a large family of positive-sense RNA [(+)RNA] viruses. All (+)RNA viruses remodel intracellular membranes into unique structures for viral genome replication. Accumul...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dorobantu CM,Albulescu L,Harak C,Feng Q,van Kampen M,Strating JR,Gorbalenya AE,Lohmann V,van der Schaar HM,van Kuppeveld FJ

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis is an ancient mechanism central to both tissue homeostasis and immune defense. Both the identity of the receptors that mediate bacterial phagocytosis and the nature of the interactions between phagocytosis and other defense mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we report that Croquemort (Crq), a Drosophila mem...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Guillou A,Troha K,Wang H,Franc NC,Buchon N

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpesviruses, like most other DNA viruses, replicate in the host cell nucleus. Subnuclear domains known as promyelocytic leukemia protein nuclear bodies (PML-NBs), or ND10 bodies, have been implicated in restricting early herpesviral gene expression. These viruses have evolved countermeasures to disperse PML-NBs,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Reichelt M,Wang L,Sommer M,Perrino J,Nour AM,Sen N,Baiker A,Zerboni L,Arvin AM

更新日期：2011-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:IFNγ signaling drives dendritic cells (DCs) to promote type I T cell (Th1) immunity. Here, we show that activation of DCs by IFNγ is equally crucial for the differentiation of a population of T-bet+ regulatory T (Treg) cells specialized to inhibit Th1 immune responses. Conditional deletion of IFNγ receptor in DCs but ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lee HM,Fleige A,Forman R,Cho S,Khan AA,Lin LL,Nguyen DT,O'Hara-Hall A,Yin Z,Hunter CA,Muller W,Lu LF

更新日期：2015-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy has been shown to be important for the cellular remodelling required for Leishmania differentiation. We now demonstrate that L. major contains a functional ATG12-ATG5 conjugation system, which is required for ATG8-dependent autophagosome formation. Nascent autophagosomes were found commonly associated w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Williams RA,Smith TK,Cull B,Mottram JC,Coombs GH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008639.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bonhomme D,Santecchia I,Vernel-Pauillac F,Caroff M,Germon P,Murray G,Adler B,Boneca IG,Werts C

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pneumococcal serine-rich repeat protein (PsrP) is a pathogenicity island encoded adhesin that has been positively correlated with the ability of Streptococcus pneumoniae to cause invasive disease. Previous studies have shown that PsrP mediates bacterial attachment to Keratin 10 (K10) on the surface of lung cells t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sanchez CJ,Shivshankar P,Stol K,Trakhtenbroit S,Sullam PM,Sauer K,Hermans PW,Orihuela CJ

更新日期：2010-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-cysteine peroxiredoxins are ubiquitous peroxidases that play various functions in cells. In Leishmania and related trypanosomatids, which lack catalase and selenium-glutathione peroxidases, the discovery of this family of enzymes provided the molecular basis for peroxide removal in these organisms. In this report ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Castro H,Teixeira F,Romao S,Santos M,Cruz T,Flórido M,Appelberg R,Oliveira P,Ferreira-da-Silva F,Tomás AM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00