Natural transformation facilitates transfer of transposons, integrons and gene cassettes between bacterial species.

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：:The ability of pathogens to escape the host's immune response is crucial for the establishment of persistent infections and can influence virulence. Recombination has been observed to contribute to this process by generating novel genetic variants. Although distinctive recombination patterns have been described in man...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Simon-Loriere E,Galetto R,Hamoudi M,Archer J,Lefeuvre P,Martin DP,Robertson DL,Negroni M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses encode a characteristic serine protease with a unique fold and an active site that comprises the unusual triad Ser-His-His. The protease is essential for viral replication and as such constitutes a promising drug target. In solution, a dynamic equilibrium exists between an inactive monomeric and an activ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zühlsdorf M,Werten S,Klupp BG,Palm GJ,Mettenleiter TC,Hinrichs W

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ingested Vibrio cholerae pass through the stomach and colonize the small intestines of its host. Here, we show that V. cholerae requires at least two types of DNA repair systems to efficiently compete for colonization of the infant mouse intestine. These results show that V. cholerae experiences increased DNA damage i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Davies BW,Bogard RW,Dupes NM,Gerstenfeld TA,Simmons LA,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic dissection of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens has largely focused on genetic changes conferring growth above a single critical concentration of drug. However, reduced susceptibility to antibiotics-even below this breakpoint-is associated with poor treatment outcomes in the clinic, including in tub...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hicks ND,Giffen SR,Culviner PH,Chao MC,Dulberger CL,Liu Q,Stanley S,Brown J,Sixsmith J,Wolf ID,Fortune SM

更新日期：2020-11-30 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：:A recently characterized calmodulin-like protein is an endogenous RNA silencing suppressor that suppresses sense-RNA induced post-transcriptional gene silencing (S-PTGS) and enhances virus infection, but the mechanism underlying calmodulin-like protein-mediated S-PTGS suppression is obscure. Here, we show that a calmo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li F,Zhao N,Li Z,Xu X,Wang Y,Yang X,Liu SS,Wang A,Zhou X

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of the RIG-I like receptor (RLR) and type I interferon (IFN) signaling pathways are essential for a protective innate immune response against the emerging flavivirus West Nile virus (WNV). In mice lacking RLR or IFN signaling pathways, WNV exhibits enhanced tissue tropism, indicating that specific host fac...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Suthar MS,Brassil MM,Blahnik G,McMillan A,Ramos HJ,Proll SC,Belisle SE,Katze MG,Gale M Jr

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV Nef acts as an anti-autophagic maturation factor through interaction with beclin-1 (BECN1). We report that exposure of macrophages to infectious or non-infectious purified HIV induces toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) and BECN1 dependent dephosphorylation and nuclear translocation of TFEB and that this correlates with a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Campbell GR,Rawat P,Bruckman RS,Spector SA

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito-borne alphaviruses such as chikungunya virus and Ross River virus (RRV) are emerging pathogens capable of causing large-scale epidemics of virus-induced arthritis and myositis. The pathology of RRV-induced disease in both humans and mice is associated with induction of the host inflammatory response within th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gunn BM,Morrison TE,Whitmore AC,Blevins LK,Hueston L,Fraser RJ,Herrero LJ,Ramirez R,Smith PN,Mahalingam S,Heise MT

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular, gram-negative bacterium Chlamydophila pneumoniae (Cpn) has impact as a human pathogen. Little is known about changes in the Cpn transcriptome during its biphasic developmental cycle (the acute infection) and persistence. The latter stage has been linked to chronic diseases. To analyze Cpn C...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mäurer AP,Mehlitz A,Mollenkopf HJ,Meyer TF

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：: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：:Antigenic variation to evade host immunity has long been assumed to be a driving force of diversifying selection in pathogens. Colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is central to the organism's transmission and therefore evolution, is limited by two arms of the immune system: antibody- and T cell- mediated i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li Y,Gierahn T,Thompson CM,Trzciński K,Ford CB,Croucher N,Gouveia P,Flechtner JB,Malley R,Lipsitch M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EV) mediate intercellular communication events and alterations in normal vesicle content contribute to function and disease initiation or progression. The ability to package a variety of cargo and transmit molecular information between cells renders EVs important mediators of cell-to-cell cross...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nkosi D,Sun L,Duke LC,Meckes DG Jr

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), an enigmatic endothelial cell vascular neoplasm, is characterized by the proliferation of spindle shaped endothelial cells, inflammatory cytokines (ICs), growth factors (GFs) and angiogenic factors. KSHV is etiologically linked to KS and expresses its latent genes in KS lesion endothelial cells....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sharma-Walia N,Paul AG,Bottero V,Sadagopan S,Veettil MV,Kerur N,Chandran B

更新日期：2010-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae is a significant human pathogen, in part due to high rates of multidrug resistance. RamA is an intrinsic regulator in K. pneumoniae established to be important for the bacterial response to antimicrobial challenge; however, little is known about its possible wider regulatory role in this organism...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： De Majumdar S,Yu J,Fookes M,McAteer SP,Llobet E,Finn S,Spence S,Monahan A,Monaghan A,Kissenpfennig A,Ingram RJ,Bengoechea J,Gally DL,Fanning S,Elborn JS,Schneiders T

更新日期：2015-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A defect in the PKA1 gene encoding the catalytic subunit of cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) is known to reduce capsule size and attenuate virulence in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Conversely, loss of the PKA regulatory subunit encoded by pkr1 results in overpro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hu G,Steen BR,Lian T,Sham AP,Tam N,Tangen KL,Kronstad JW

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA granules are cellular structures, which play an important role in mRNA translation, storage, and degradation. Animal (+)RNA viruses often co-opt RNA granule proteins for viral reproduction. However, the role of RNA granules in plant viral infections is poorly understood. Here we use Potato virus A (PVA) as a model...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hafrén A,Lõhmus A,Mäkinen K

更新日期：2015-12-07 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：:Plants possess active defense systems and can protect themselves from pathogenic invasion by secretion of a variety of small antimicrobial or antifungal proteins such as thionins. The antibacterial and antifungal properties of thionins are derived from their ability to induce open pore formation on cell membranes of p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Asano T,Miwa A,Maeda K,Kimura M,Nishiuchi T

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Respiratory virus infections, such as influenza, typically induce a robust type I (pro-inflammatory cytokine) immune response, however, the production of type 2 cytokines has been observed. Type 2 cytokine production during respiratory virus infection is linked to asthma exacerbation; however, type 2 cytokines may als...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gorski SA,Hahn YS,Braciale TJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of virus infection is mediated in part by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) Class Ia presentation of viral peptides to conventional CD8 T cells. Although important, the absolute requirement for MHC Class Ia-dependent CD8 T cells for control of chronic virus infection has not been formally demonstrated. We...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Braaten DC,McClellan JS,Messaoudi I,Tibbetts SA,McClellan KB,Nikolich-Zugich J,Virgin HW

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepadnavirus covalently closed circular (ccc) DNA is the bona fide viral transcription template, which plays a pivotal role in viral infection and persistence. Upon infection, the non-replicative cccDNA is converted from the incoming and de novo synthesized viral genomic relaxed circular (rc) DNA, presumably through e...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Long Q,Yan R,Hu J,Cai D,Mitra B,Kim ES,Marchetti A,Zhang H,Wang S,Liu Y,Huang A,Guo H

更新日期：2017-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a high current standard of care in antiretroviral therapy for HIV, multidrug-resistant strains continue to emerge, underscoring the need for additional novel mechanism inhibitors that will offer expanded therapeutic options in the clinic. We report a new class of small molecule antiretroviral compounds that di...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Blair WS,Pickford C,Irving SL,Brown DG,Anderson M,Bazin R,Cao J,Ciaramella G,Isaacson J,Jackson L,Hunt R,Kjerrstrom A,Nieman JA,Patick AK,Perros M,Scott AD,Whitby K,Wu H,Butler SL

更新日期：2010-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the leading causes of nosocomial pneumonia and its associated mortality. Moreover, extensively drug-resistant high-risk clones are globally widespread, presenting a major challenge to the healthcare systems. Despite this, no vaccine is available against this high-concerning pathogen. H...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cabral MP,Correia A,Vilanova M,Gärtner F,Moscoso M,García P,Vallejo JA,Pérez A,Francisco-Tomé M,Fuentes-Valverde V,Bou G

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The human monoclonal antibody (mAb) HK20 neutralizes a broad spectrum of primary HIV-1 isolates by targeting the highly conserved heptad repeat 1 (HR1) of gp41, which is transiently exposed during HIV-1 entry. Here we present the crystal structure of the HK20 Fab in complex with a gp41 mimetic 5-Helix at 2.3 Å resolut...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sabin C,Corti D,Buzon V,Seaman MS,Lutje Hulsik D,Hinz A,Vanzetta F,Agatic G,Silacci C,Mainetti L,Scarlatti G,Sallusto F,Weiss R,Lanzavecchia A,Weissenhorn W

更新日期：2010-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical strains of HCMV encode 20 putative ORFs within a region of the genome termed ULb' that are postulated to encode functions related to persistence or immune evasion. We have previously identified ULb'-encoded pUL138 as necessary, but not sufficient, for HCMV latency in CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Umashankar M,Petrucelli A,Cicchini L,Caposio P,Kreklywich CN,Rak M,Bughio F,Goldman DC,Hamlin KL,Nelson JA,Fleming WH,Streblow DN,Goodrum F

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses persist indefinitely in their host through complex and poorly defined interactions that mediate latent, chronic or productive states of infection. Human cytomegalovirus (CMV or HCMV), a ubiquitous β-herpesvirus, coordinates the expression of two viral genes, UL135 and UL138, which have opposing roles in ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Buehler J,Zeltzer S,Reitsma J,Petrucelli A,Umashankar M,Rak M,Zagallo P,Schroeder J,Terhune S,Goodrum F

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00