Group 2 innate lymphoid cell production of IL-5 is regulated by NKT cells during influenza virus infection.

abstract：:Certain cutaneous human papillomaviruses (HPVs), which are ubiquitous and acquired early during childhood, can cause a variety of skin tumors and are likely involved in the development of non-melanoma skin cancer, especially in immunosuppressed patients. Hence, the burden of these clinical manifestations demands for a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vinzón SE,Braspenning-Wesch I,Müller M,Geissler EK,Nindl I,Gröne HJ,Schäfer K,Rösl F

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) arise from retroviruses chromosomally integrated in the host germline. ERVs are common in vertebrate genomes and provide a valuable fossil record of past retroviral infections to investigate the biology and evolution of retroviruses over a deep time scale, including cross-species transmi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhuo X,Feschotte C

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent origin and great evolutionary potential of HIV imply that the virulence of the virus might still be changing, which could greatly affect the future of the pandemic. However, previous studies of time trends of HIV virulence have yielded conflicting results. Here we used an established methodology to assess t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Müller V,Maggiolo F,Suter F,Ladisa N,De Luca A,Antinori A,Sighinolfi L,Quiros-Roldan E,Carosi G,Torti C

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006120.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kinosada H,Yasunaga JI,Shimura K,Miyazato P,Onishi C,Iyoda T,Inaba K,Matsuoka M

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhalation of fungal spores (conidia) occurs commonly and, in specific circumstances, can result in invasive disease. We investigated the murine inflammatory response to conidia of Aspergillus fumigatus, the most common invasive mold in immunocompromised hosts. In contrast to dormant spores, germinating conidia induce...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hohl TM,Van Epps HL,Rivera A,Morgan LA,Chen PL,Feldmesser M,Pamer EG

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:Many immune response genes are highly polymorphic, consistent with the selective pressure imposed by pathogens over evolutionary time, and the need to balance infection control with the risk of auto-immunity. Epidemiological and genomic studies have identified many genetic variants that confer susceptibility or resist...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Andoniou CE,Sutton VR,Wikstrom ME,Fleming P,Thia KY,Matthews AY,Kaiserman D,Schuster IS,Coudert JD,Eldi P,Chaudhri G,Karupiah G,Bird PI,Trapani JA,Degli-Esposti MA

更新日期：2014-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a ubiquitous human herpesvirus, can latently infect the human population. EBV is associated with several types of malignancies originating from lymphoid and epithelial cell types. EBV latent antigen 3C (EBNA3C) is essential for EBV-induced immortalization of B-cells. The Moloney murine leukem...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Banerjee S,Lu J,Cai Q,Sun Z,Jha HC,Robertson ES

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Many viral pathogens are persistently transmitted by insect vectors and cause agricultural or health problems. Generally, an insect vector can use autophagy as an intrinsic antiviral defense mechanism against viral infection. Whether viruses can evolve to exploit autophagy to promote their transmission by insect vecto...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen Y,Chen Q,Li M,Mao Q,Chen H,Wu W,Jia D,Wei T

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida bloodstream infection, i.e. candidemia, is the most frequently encountered life-threatening fungal infection worldwide, with mortality rates up to almost 50%. In the majority of candidemia cases, Candida albicans is responsible. Worryingly, a global increase in the number of patients who are susceptible to inf...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Vries DH,Matzaraki V,Bakker OB,Brugge H,Westra HJ,Netea MG,Franke L,Kumar V,van der Wijst MGP

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of multi-drug (MDR-TB) and extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a major threat to the global management of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. New chemical entities are of need to treat drug-resistant TB. In this study, the mode of action of new, potent quinazoline derivatives was investigated ag...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lupien A,Foo CS,Savina S,Vocat A,Piton J,Monakhova N,Benjak A,Lamprecht DA,Steyn AJC,Pethe K,Makarov VA,Cole ST

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) in rice is important in its interaction with the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae during which the pathogen scavenges ROS through the production of extracellular enzymes that promote blast. We previously characterized the MoYvh1 protein phosphatase from M. oryz...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Liu X,Yang J,Qian B,Cai Y,Zou X,Zhang H,Zheng X,Wang P,Zhang Z

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Our skin is our first line of defense against environmental and pathogenic challenges. It is densely populated by a flora of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that normally interact with each other and with our immune system to promote skin health and homeostasis. Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of the most abundant bact...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brown MM,Horswill AR

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The influenza A virus (IAV) HA protein must be activated by host cells proteases in order to prime the molecule for fusion. Consequently, the availability of activating proteases and the susceptibility of HA to protease activity represents key factors in facilitating virus infection. As such, understanding the intrica...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Galloway SE,Reed ML,Russell CJ,Steinhauer DA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles is characterized by fever and a maculopapular skin rash, which is accompanied by immune clearance of measles virus (MV)-infected cells. Histopathological analyses of skin biopsies from humans and non-human primates (NHPs) with measles rash have identified MV-infected keratinocytes and mononuclear cells in the ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Laksono BM,Fortugno P,Nijmeijer BM,de Vries RD,Cordisco S,Kuiken T,Geijtenbeek TBH,Duprex WP,Brancati F,de Swart RL

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike for other retroviruses, only a few host cell factors that aid the replication of foamy viruses (FVs) via interaction with viral structural components are known. Using a yeast-two-hybrid (Y2H) screen with prototype FV (PFV) Gag protein as bait we identified human polo-like kinase 2 (hPLK2), a member of cell cycl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zurnic I,Hütter S,Rzeha U,Stanke N,Reh J,Müllers E,Hamann MV,Kern T,Gerresheim GK,Lindel F,Serrao E,Lesbats P,Engelman AN,Cherepanov P,Lindemann D

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans exhibits morphological changes in cell size during lung infection, producing both typical size 5 to 7 μm cells and large titan cells (> 10 μm and up to 100 μm). We found and optimized in vitro conditions that produce titan cells in order to identify the ancestry of titan c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hommel B,Mukaremera L,Cordero RJB,Coelho C,Desjardins CA,Sturny-Leclère A,Janbon G,Perfect JR,Fraser JA,Casadevall A,Cuomo CA,Dromer F,Nielsen K,Alanio A

更新日期：2018-05-18 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

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：:Lyme disease in humans is caused by several genospecies of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) complex of spirochetal bacteria, including B. burgdorferi, B. afzelii and B. garinii. These bacteria exist in nature as obligate parasites in an enzootic cycle between small vertebrate hosts and Ixodid tick vectors, w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bhatia B,Hillman C,Carracoi V,Cheff BN,Tilly K,Rosa PA

更新日期：2018-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) causes lifelong infection affecting between 50 and 90% of the global population. In addition to causing dermal lesions, HSV-1 is a leading cause of blindness resulting from recurrent corneal infection. Corneal disease is characterized by loss of corneal immunologic privilege and extensiv...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wuest T,Zheng M,Efstathiou S,Halford WP,Carr DJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous and immune systems influence each other, allowing animals to rapidly protect themselves from changes in their internal and external environment. However, the complex nature of these systems in mammals makes it difficult to determine how neuronal signaling influences the immune response. Here we show that s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Anderson A,Laurenson-Schafer H,Partridge FA,Hodgkin J,McMullan R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) were shown effective in animal models, and are currently evaluated in clinical trials. However, use of these antibodies in humans is hampered by the rapid emergence of resistant viruses. Here we show that soft-randomizatio...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Otsuka Y,Schmitt K,Quinlan BD,Gardner MR,Alfant B,Reich A,Farzan M,Choe H

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 19 to 23 nucleotide-long RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression. Human cells express several hundred miRNAs which regulate important biological pathways such as development, proliferation, and apoptosis. Recently, 12 miRNA genes have been identified within the genome of Kaposi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Samols MA,Skalsky RL,Maldonado AM,Riva A,Lopez MC,Baker HV,Renne R

更新日期：2007-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is the most frequent cause of oral fungal infections. However, the exact pathogenicity mechanisms that this fungus employs are largely unknown and many of the genes expressed during oral infection are uncharacterized. In this study we sought to functionally characterize 12 previously unknown function ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mayer FL,Wilson D,Jacobsen ID,Miramón P,Große K,Hube B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a dsDNA, enveloped virus, is a ubiquitous pathogen that establishes lifelong latent infections and caused disease in persons with compromised immune systems, e.g., organ transplant recipients or AIDS patients. HCMV is also a leading cause of congenital viral infections in newborns. Entry ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Burke HG,Heldwein EE

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pomalidomide (Pom) is an immunomodulatory drug that has efficacy against Kaposi's sarcoma, a tumor caused by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). Pom also induces direct cytotoxicity in primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), a B-cell malignancy caused by KSHV, in part through downregulation of IRF4, cMyc, and CK1...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shrestha P,Davis DA,Jaeger HK,Stream A,Aisabor AI,Yarchoan R

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A subset of high-risk Human Papillomaviruses (HPVs) are the causative agents of a large number of human cancers, of which cervical is the most common. Two viral oncoproteins, E6 and E7, contribute directly towards the development and maintenance of malignancy. A characteristic feature of the E6 oncoproteins from cance...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ganti K,Massimi P,Manzo-Merino J,Tomaić V,Pim D,Playford MP,Lizano M,Roberts S,Kranjec C,Doorbar J,Banks L

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00