Global gene transcriptome analysis in vaccinated cattle revealed a dominant role of IL-22 for protection against bovine tuberculosis.

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：:Idiopathic chronic diarrhea (ICD) is a leading cause of morbidity amongst rhesus monkeys kept in captivity. Here, we show that exposure of affected animals to the whipworm Trichuris trichiura led to clinical improvement in fecal consistency, accompanied by weight gain, in four out of the five treated monkeys. By flow ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Broadhurst MJ,Ardeshir A,Kanwar B,Mirpuri J,Gundra UM,Leung JM,Wiens KE,Vujkovic-Cvijin I,Kim CC,Yarovinsky F,Lerche NW,McCune JM,Loke P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host's immune system plays a key role in modulating growth of pathogens and the intestinal microbiota in the gut. In particular, inflammatory bowel disorders and pathogen infections induce shifts of the resident commensal microbiota which can result in overgrowth of Enterobacteriaceae ("inflammation-inflicted bloo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nedialkova LP,Denzler R,Koeppel MB,Diehl M,Ring D,Wille T,Gerlach RG,Stecher B

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:One of the hallmarks of adaptive immunity is the development of a long-term pathogen specific memory response. While persistent memory T cells certainly impact the immune response during a secondary challenge, their role in unrelated infections is less clear. To address this issue, we utilized lymphocytic choriomening...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crosby EJ,Goldschmidt MH,Wherry EJ,Scott P

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern agriculture favours the selection and spread of novel plant diseases. Furthermore, crop genetic resistance against pathogens is often rendered ineffective within a few years of its commercial deployment. Leptosphaeria maculans, the cause of phoma stem canker of oilseed rape, develops gene-for-gene interactions ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Daverdin G,Rouxel T,Gout L,Aubertot JN,Fudal I,Meyer M,Parlange F,Carpezat J,Balesdent MH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoT induces potent apoptosis in host epithelial cells in a manner that primarily depends on its ADP-ribosyltransferase domain (ADPRT) activity. However, the mechanism underlying ExoT/ADPRT-induced apoptosis remains undetermined. We now report that ExoT/ADPRT dis...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wood S,Goldufsky J,Shafikhani SH

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinia virus A33 is an extracellular enveloped virus (EEV)-specific type II membrane glycoprotein that is essential for efficient EEV formation and long-range viral spread within the host. A33 is a target for neutralizing antibody responses against EEV. In this study, we produced seven murine anti-A33 monoclonal ant...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Matho MH,Schlossman A,Meng X,Benhnia MR,Kaever T,Buller M,Doronin K,Parker S,Peters B,Crotty S,Xiang Y,Zajonc DM

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The envelope glycoprotein (Env) of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) is a critical determinant of viral infectivity, tropism and is the main target for humoral immunity; however, little is known about the cellular machinery that directs Env trafficking and its incorporation into nascent virions. Here we ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Groppelli E,Len AC,Granger LA,Jolly C

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated protein secretion is required for malaria parasite life cycle progression and transmission between the mammalian host and mosquito vector. During transmission from the host to the vector, exocytosis of highly specialised secretory vesicles, such as osmiophilic bodies, is key to the dissolution of the red blo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kehrer J,Singer M,Lemgruber L,Silva PA,Frischknecht F,Mair GR

更新日期：2016-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The viral replication proteins of plus-stranded RNA viruses orchestrate the biogenesis of the large viral replication compartments, including the numerous viral replicase complexes, which represent the sites of viral RNA replication. The formation and operation of these virus-driven structures require subversion of nu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lin W,Liu Y,Molho M,Zhang S,Wang L,Xie L,Nagy PD

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice tungro disease is caused by synergistic interaction of an RNA picorna-like virus Rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV) and a DNA pararetrovirus Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV). It is spread by insects owing to an RTSV-encoded transmission factor. RTBV has evolved a ribosome shunt mechanism to initiate translati...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pooggin MM,Rajeswaran R,Schepetilnikov MV,Ryabova LA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pandemic-capable influenza virus requires a hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein that is immunologically unseen by most people and is capable of supporting replication and transmission in humans. HA stabilization has been linked to 2009 pH1N1 pandemic potential in humans and H5N1 airborne transmissibility in the ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Russier M,Yang G,Marinova-Petkova A,Vogel P,Kaplan BS,Webby RJ,Russell CJ

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Apicomplexans are obligate intracellular parasites that actively penetrate their host cells to create an intracellular niche for replication. Commitment to invasion is thought to be mediated by the rhoptries, specialized apical secretory organelles that inject a protein complex into the host cell to form a tight-junct...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Beck JR,Fung C,Straub KW,Coppens I,Vashisht AA,Wohlschlegel JA,Bradley PJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory T cell inflation is a process in which a subset of cytomegalovirus (CMV) specific CD8 T cells continuously expands mainly during latent infection and establishes a large and stable population of effector memory cells in peripheral tissues. Here we set out to identify in vivo parameters that promote and limit CD...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Baumann NS,Welten SPM,Torti N,Pallmer K,Borsa M,Barnstorf I,Oduro JD,Cicin-Sain L,Oxenius A

更新日期：2019-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramyxoviruses are known to replicate in the cytoplasm and bud from the plasma membrane. Matrix is the major structural protein in paramyxoviruses that mediates viral assembly and budding. Curiously, the matrix proteins of a few paramyxoviruses have been found in the nucleus, although the biological function associat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang YE,Park A,Lake M,Pentecost M,Torres B,Yun TE,Wolf MC,Holbrook MR,Freiberg AN,Lee B

更新日期：2010-11-11 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：:A central question in Leishmania research is why most species cause cutaneous infections but others cause fatal visceral disease. Interestingly, L. donovani causes both visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka. L. donovani clinical isolates were therefore obtained from cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL-SL) and visc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang WW,Ramasamy G,McCall LI,Haydock A,Ranasinghe S,Abeygunasekara P,Sirimanna G,Wickremasinghe R,Myler P,Matlashewski G

更新日期：2014-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aspergillus fumigatus sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP) SrbA belongs to the basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) family of transcription factors and is crucial for antifungal drug resistance and virulence. The latter phenotype is especially striking, as loss of SrbA results in complete loss of virulence i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chung D,Barker BM,Carey CC,Merriman B,Werner ER,Lechner BE,Dhingra S,Cheng C,Xu W,Blosser SJ,Morohashi K,Mazurie A,Mitchell TK,Haas H,Mitchell AP,Cramer RA

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, has cholesterol and cholesterol-glycolipids that are essential for bacterial fitness, are antigenic, and could be important in mediating interactions with cells of the eukaryotic host. We show that the spirochetes can acquire cholesterol from plasma membranes of epithel...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crowley JT,Toledo AM,LaRocca TJ,Coleman JL,London E,Benach JL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of viroids, small non-protein-coding plant pathogenic RNAs, entails reiterative transcription of their incoming single-stranded circular genomes, to which the (+) polarity is arbitrarily assigned, cleavage of the oligomeric strands of one or both polarities to unit-length, and ligation to circular RNAs. Wh...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gas ME,Hernández C,Flores R,Daròs JA

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) belongs to a class of cellular proteins involved in lipid metabolism. ApoE is a polymorphic protein produced primarily in macrophages and astrocytes. Different isoforms of ApoE have been associated with susceptibility to various diseases including Alzheimer's and cardiovascular diseases. ApoE e...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Siddiqui R,Suzu S,Ueno M,Nasser H,Koba R,Bhuyan F,Noyori O,Hamidi S,Sheng G,Yasuda-Inoue M,Hishiki T,Sukegawa S,Miyagi E,Strebel K,Matsushita S,Shimotohno K,Ariumi Y

更新日期：2018-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramount to the success of persistent viral infection is the ability of viruses to navigate hostile environments en route to future targets. In response to such obstacles, many viruses have developed the ability of establishing actin rich-membrane bridges to aid in future infections. Herein through dynamic imaging of...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Aggarwal A,Iemma TL,Shih I,Newsome TP,McAllery S,Cunningham AL,Turville SG

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 200 million people have, and another 600 million are at risk of contracting, schistosomiasis, one of the major neglected tropical diseases. Transmission of this infection, which is caused by helminth parasites of the genus Schistosoma, depends upon the release of parasite eggs from the human host. However, approx...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Freitas TC,Jung E,Pearce EJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular pathogens have evolved diverse strategies to invade and survive within host cells. Among the most studied facultative intracellular pathogens, Listeria monocytogenes is known to express two invasins-InlA and InlB-that induce bacterial internalization into nonphagocytic cells. The pore-forming toxin liste...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vadia S,Arnett E,Haghighat AC,Wilson-Kubalek EM,Tweten RK,Seveau S

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most fungal pathogens of humans display robust protective oxidative stress responses that contribute to their pathogenicity. The induction of enzymes that detoxify reactive oxygen species (ROS) is an essential component of these responses. We showed previously that ectopic expression of the heme-containing catalase en...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pradhan A,Herrero-de-Dios C,Belmonte R,Budge S,Lopez Garcia A,Kolmogorova A,Lee KK,Martin BD,Ribeiro A,Bebes A,Yuecel R,Gow NAR,Munro CA,MacCallum DM,Quinn J,Brown AJP

更新日期：2017-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Many viruses express factors that reduce host gene expression through widespread degradation of cellular mRNA. An example of this class of proteins is the mRNA-targeting endoribonuclease SOX from the gamma-herpesvirus Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). Previous studies indicated that cleavage of messenger...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gaglia MM,Rycroft CH,Glaunsinger BA

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonic plague is a fatal disease caused by Yersinia pestis that is associated with a delayed immune response in the lungs. Because neutrophils are the first immune cells recruited to sites of infection, we investigated the mechanisms responsible for their delayed homing to the lung. During the first 24 hr after pul...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vagima Y,Zauberman A,Levy Y,Gur D,Tidhar A,Aftalion M,Shafferman A,Mamroud E

更新日期：2015-05-14 00:00:00