Malaria parasite-synthesized heme is essential in the mosquito and liver stages and complements host heme in the blood stages of infection.

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

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lytic replication proceeds through an ordered cascade of gene expression that integrates lytic DNA amplification and late gene transcription. We and others previously demonstrated that 6 EBV proteins that have orthologs in β- and γ-, but not in α-herpesviruses, mediate late gene transcription ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Djavadian R,Hayes M,Johannsen E

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) trimer is located on the surface of the virus and is the target of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs). Recombinant native-like soluble Env trimer mimetics, such as SOSIP trimers, have taken a central role in HIV-1 vaccine research aimed at inducing bNAbs. We therefore perform...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Torrents de la Peña A,Rantalainen K,Cottrell CA,Allen JD,van Gils MJ,Torres JL,Crispin M,Sanders RW,Ward AB

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria starts with the infection of the liver of the host by Plasmodium sporozoites, the parasite form transmitted by infected mosquitoes. Sporozoites migrate through several hepatocytes by breaching their plasma membranes before finally infecting one with the formation of an internalization vacuole. Migration throug...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ono T,Cabrita-Santos L,Leitao R,Bettiol E,Purcell LA,Diaz-Pulido O,Andrews LB,Tadakuma T,Bhanot P,Mota MM,Rodriguez A

更新日期：2008-02-29 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 protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi almost invariably establishes life-long infections in humans and other mammals, despite the development of potent host immune responses that constrain parasite numbers. The consistent, decades-long persistence of T. cruzi in human hosts arises at least in part from the remarkable level ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang W,Peng D,Baptista RP,Li Y,Kissinger JC,Tarleton RL

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Despite numerous studies of the pathogenesis of influenza in humans and animal models the dynamics of infection and transmission in individual hosts remain poorly characterized. In this study, we experimentally modelled transmission using the H1N1pdm09 i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Canini L,Holzer B,Morgan S,Dinie Hemmink J,Clark B,sLoLa Dynamics Consortium.,Woolhouse MEJ,Tchilian E,Charleston B

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human pegivirus (HPgV), formerly GBV-C, are the only known human viruses in the Hepacivirus and Pegivirus genera, respectively, of the family Flaviviridae. We present the discovery of a second pegivirus, provisionally designated human pegivirus 2 (HPgV-2), by next-generation sequencing of p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Berg MG,Lee D,Coller K,Frankel M,Aronsohn A,Cheng K,Forberg K,Marcinkus M,Naccache SN,Dawson G,Brennan C,Jensen DM,Hackett J Jr,Chiu CY

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial type III protein secretion systems inject effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells in order to promote survival and colonization of Gram-negative pathogens and symbionts. Secretion across the bacterial cell envelope and injection into host cells is facilitated by a so-called injectisome. Its small hydrop...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dietsche T,Tesfazgi Mebrhatu M,Brunner MJ,Abrusci P,Yan J,Franz-Wachtel M,Schärfe C,Zilkenat S,Grin I,Galán JE,Kohlbacher O,Lea S,Macek B,Marlovits TC,Robinson CV,Wagner S

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 uses a number of means to manipulate the immune system, to avoid recognition and to highjack signaling pathways. HIV-1 infected cells show limited Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) responsiveness via as yet unknown mechanisms. Using biochemical and biophysical approaches, we demonstrate that the trans-membrane domain (TM...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Reuven EM,Ali M,Rotem E,Schwarzer R,Gramatica A,Futerman AH,Shai Y

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory strains of the mouse polyoma virus differ markedly in their abilities to replicate and induce tumors in newborn mice. Major determinants of pathogenicity lie in the sialic binding pocket of the major capsid protein Vp1 and dictate receptor-binding properties of the virus. Substitutions at two sites in Vp1 d...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Carroll J,Dey D,Kreisman L,Velupillai P,Dahl J,Telford S,Bronson R,Benjamin T

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) is absent from humans but encoded in the Plasmodium falciparum genome, suggesting that PEPC has a parasite-specific function. To investigate its importance in P. falciparum, we generated a pepc null mutant (D10(Δpepc) ), which was only achievable when malate, a reduction product o...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Storm J,Sethia S,Blackburn GJ,Chokkathukalam A,Watson DG,Breitling R,Coombs GH,Müller S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses encode cis-acting RNA nuclear export elements that override nuclear retention of intron-containing viral mRNAs including the full-length, unspliced genomic RNAs (gRNAs) packaged into assembling virions. The HIV-1 Rev-response element (RRE) recruits the cellular nuclear export receptor CRM1 (also known as ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pocock GM,Becker JT,Swanson CM,Ahlquist P,Sherer NM

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:SIV(mac239) infection of rhesus macaques (RMs) results in AIDS despite the generation of a strong antiviral cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response, possibly due to the emergence of viral escape mutants that prevent recognition of infected cells by CTLs. To determine the anatomic origin of these SIV mutants, we longitud...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vanderford TH,Bleckwehl C,Engram JC,Dunham RM,Klatt NR,Feinberg MB,Garber DA,Betts MR,Silvestri G

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blocking neurotransmission, botulinum neurotoxin is the most poisonous biological substance known to mankind. Despite its infamy as the scourge of the food industry, the neurotoxin is increasingly used as a pharmaceutical to treat an expanding range of muscle disorders. Whilst neurotoxin expression by the spore-formin...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang Z,Korkeala H,Dahlsten E,Sahala E,Heap JT,Minton NP,Lindström M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression of DNA viruses requires nuclear import of the viral genome. Human Adenoviruses (Ads), like most DNA viruses, encode factors within early transcription units promoting their own gene expression and counteracting cellular antiviral defense mechanisms. The cellular transcriptional repressor Daxx prevents ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schreiner S,Martinez R,Groitl P,Rayne F,Vaillant R,Wimmer P,Bossis G,Sternsdorf T,Marcinowski L,Ruzsics Z,Dobner T,Wodrich H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA modification plays an important role in modulating host-pathogen interaction. Flavivirus NS5 protein encodes N-7 and 2'-O methyltransferase activities that are required for the formation of 5' type I cap (m(7)GpppAm) of viral RNA genome. Here we reported, for the first time, that flavivirus NS5 has a novel interna...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dong H,Chang DC,Hua MH,Lim SP,Chionh YH,Hia F,Lee YH,Kukkaro P,Lok SM,Dedon PC,Shi PY

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) is a pathogenic strain of avian paramyxovirus (aPMV-1) that is among the most serious of disease threats to the poultry industry worldwide. Viral diversity is high in aPMV-1; eight genotypes are recognized based on phylogenetic reconstruction of gene sequences. Modified live vaccines have...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chong YL,Padhi A,Hudson PJ,Poss M

更新日期：2010-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, caused by the apicomplexan parasite Plasmodium, still represents a major threat to human health and welfare and leads to about one million human deaths annually. Plasmodium is a rapidly multiplying unicellular organism undergoing a complex developmental cycle in man and mosquito - a life style that requires r...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kehr S,Sturm N,Rahlfs S,Przyborski JM,Becker K

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs play an important role in the interplay between bacterial pathogens and host cells, participating as host defense mechanisms, as well as exploited by bacteria to subvert host cellular functions. Here, we show that microRNAs modulate infection by Shigella flexneri, a major causative agent of bacillary dysente...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sunkavalli U,Aguilar C,Silva RJ,Sharan M,Cruz AR,Tawk C,Maudet C,Mano M,Eulalio A

更新日期：2017-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, has been shown to induce expression of the urokinase receptor (uPAR); however, the role of uPAR in the immune response against Borrelia has never been investigated. uPAR not only acts as a proteinase receptor, but can also, dependently or in...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hovius JW,Bijlsma MF,van der Windt GJ,Wiersinga WJ,Boukens BJ,Coumou J,Oei A,de Beer R,de Vos AF,van 't Veer C,van Dam AP,Wang P,Fikrig E,Levi MM,Roelofs JJ,van der Poll T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) US2, US3, US6 and US11 act in concert to prevent immune recognition of virally infected cells by CD8+ T-lymphocytes through downregulation of MHC class I molecules (MHC-I). Here we show that US2 function goes far beyond MHC-I degradation. A systematic proteomic study using Plasma Membrane ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hsu JL,van den Boomen DJ,Tomasec P,Weekes MP,Antrobus R,Stanton RJ,Ruckova E,Sugrue D,Wilkie GS,Davison AJ,Wilkinson GW,Lehner PJ

更新日期：2015-04-14 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：:Discovering novel genes involved in immune evasion and drug resistance in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is of critical importance to global health. Such knowledge may assist in the development of new effective vaccines and in the appropriate use of antimalarial drugs. By performing a full-genome s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kidgell C,Volkman SK,Daily J,Borevitz JO,Plouffe D,Zhou Y,Johnson JR,Le Roch K,Sarr O,Ndir O,Mboup S,Batalov S,Wirth DF,Winzeler EA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tm-2² is a coiled coil-nucleotide binding-leucine rich repeat resistance protein that confers durable extreme resistance against Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) and Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) by recognizing the viral movement protein (MP). Here we report that the Nicotiana benthamiana J-domain MIP1 proteins (NbMIP1s) assoc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Du Y,Zhao J,Chen T,Liu Q,Zhang H,Wang Y,Hong Y,Xiao F,Zhang L,Shen Q,Liu Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the initiation of CD8(+) T cell responses during infection, the primary response to the intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii was characterized using 2-photon microscopy combined with an experimental system that allowed visualization of dendritic cells (DCs) and parasite specific CD8(+) T cells...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： John B,Harris TH,Tait ED,Wilson EH,Gregg B,Ng LG,Mrass P,Roos DS,Dzierszinski F,Weninger W,Hunter CA

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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