Novel staphylococcal glycosyltransferases SdgA and SdgB mediate immunogenicity and protection of virulence-associated cell wall proteins.

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：:Paramyxovirus spread generally involves assembly of individual viral particles which then infect target cells. We show that infection of human bronchial airway cells with human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a recently identified paramyxovirus which causes significant respiratory disease, results in formation of intercellula...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： El Najjar F,Cifuentes-Muñoz N,Chen J,Zhu H,Buchholz UJ,Moncman CL,Dutch RE

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The interplay between autophagy and intracellular pathogens is intricate as autophagy is an essential cellular response to fight against infections, whereas numerous microbes have developed strategies to escape this process or even exploit it to their own benefit. The fine tuned timing and/or selective molecular pathw...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Richetta C,Grégoire IP,Verlhac P,Azocar O,Baguet J,Flacher M,Tangy F,Rabourdin-Combe C,Faure M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a frequent complication in critical illness. The mechanisms that are involved in initiation and propagation of the disease are not well understood. Scavenger receptor A (SRA) is a membrane receptor that binds multiple polyanions such as oxidized LDL and endotoxin. Recent studies suggest that SRA acts as a pa...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ozment TR,Ha T,Breuel KF,Ford TR,Ferguson DA,Kalbfleisch J,Schweitzer JB,Kelley JL,Li C,Williams DL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic exchange by recombination, or reassortment of genomic segments, has been shown to be an important process in RNA virus evolution, resulting often in important phenotypic changes affecting host range and virulence. However, data from numerous systems indicate that reassortant or recombinant genotypes could be s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Escriu F,Fraile A,García-Arenal F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strain designated Chlamydia trachomatis serovar that was used for experiments in this paper is Chlamydia muridarum, a species closely related to C. trachomatis (and formerly termed the Mouse Pneumonitis strain of C. trachomatis. [corrected]. The obligate intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis replicates with...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Elwell CA,Jiang S,Kim JH,Lee A,Wittmann T,Hanada K,Melancon P,Engel JN

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of honey bees are declining throughout the world, with US beekeepers losing 30% of their colonies each winter. Though multiple factors are driving these colony losses, it is increasingly clear that viruses play a major role. However, information about the molecular mechanisms mediating antiviral immunity i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Galbraith DA,Yang X,Niño EL,Yi S,Grozinger C

更新日期：2015-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Shoot apical meristems (SAM) are resistant to most plant viruses due to RNA silencing, which is restrained by viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) to facilitate transient viral invasion of the SAM. In many cases chronic symptoms and long-term virus recovery occur, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang XP,Liu DS,Yan T,Fang XD,Dong K,Xu J,Wang Y,Yu JL,Wang XB

更新日期：2017-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006551.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gidon A,Åsberg SE,Louet C,Ryan L,Haug M,Flo TH

更新日期：2017-11-07 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 flaviviruses are among the most significant arboviral pathogens worldwide. Vaccinations and mosquito population control programs remain the most reliable means for flavivirus disease prevention, and live attenuated viruses remain one of the most attractive flavivirus vaccine platforms. Some live attenua...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tsetsarkin KA,Liu G,Kenney H,Bustos-Arriaga J,Hanson CT,Whitehead SS,Pletnev AG

更新日期：2015-04-23 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：:Little is known about the role of viral genes in modulating host cytokine responses. Here we report a new functional role of the viral encoded IE1 protein of the murine cytomegalovirus in sculpting the inflammatory response in an acute infection. In time course experiments of infected primary macrophages (MΦs) measuri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rodríguez-Martín S,Kropp KA,Wilhelmi V,Lisnic VJ,Hsieh WY,Blanc M,Livingston A,Busche A,Tekotte H,Messerle M,Auer M,Fraser I,Jonjic S,Angulo A,Reddehase MJ,Ghazal P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans, a clinically important dimorphic fungal pathogen that can evade immune attack by masking its cell wall beta-glucan from immune recognition, mutes protective host responses mediated by the Dectin-1 beta-glucan receptor on innate immune cells. Although the ability of C. albicans to switch between a yea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wheeler RT,Kombe D,Agarwala SD,Fink GR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progression of a natural bacterial infection is a dynamic process influenced by the physiological characteristics of the target organ. Recent developments in live animal imaging allow for the study of the dynamic microbe-host interplay in real-time as the infection progresses within an organ of a live host. Here w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Melican K,Sandoval RM,Kader A,Josefsson L,Tanner GA,Molitoris BA,Richter-Dahlfors A

更新日期：2011-02-01 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

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：:Murine norovirus (MNoV) is an important model of human norovirus (HNoV) and mucosal virus infection more broadly. Viral receptor utilization is a major determinant of cell tropism, host range, and pathogenesis. The bona fide receptor for HNoV is unknown. Recently, we identified CD300lf as a proteinaceous receptor for ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Graziano VR,Walker FC,Kennedy EA,Wei J,Ettayebi K,Strine MS,Filler RB,Hassan E,Hsieh LL,Kim AS,Kolawole AO,Wobus CE,Lindesmith LC,Baric RS,Estes MK,Orchard RC,Baldridge MT,Wilen CB

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The matrix (M) proteins of rhabdoviruses are multifunctional proteins essential for virus maturation and budding that also regulate the expression of viral and host proteins. We have solved the structures of M from the vesicular stomatitis virus serotype New Jersey (genus: Vesiculovirus) and from Lagos bat virus (genu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Graham SC,Assenberg R,Delmas O,Verma A,Gholami A,Talbi C,Owens RJ,Stuart DI,Grimes JM,Bourhy H

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immune responses require the generation and recruitment of diverse blood cell types that recognize and kill pathogens. In Drosophila melanogaster larvae, immune-inducible lamellocytes participate in recognizing and killing parasitoid wasp eggs. However, the sequence of events required for lamellocyte generati...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Anderl I,Vesala L,Ihalainen TO,Vanha-Aho LM,Andó I,Rämet M,Hultmark D

更新日期：2016-07-14 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：:Simian virus 40 (SV40) and cellular DNA replication rely on host ATM and ATR DNA damage signaling kinases to facilitate DNA repair and elicit cell cycle arrest following DNA damage. During SV40 DNA replication, ATM kinase activity prevents concatemerization of the viral genome whereas ATR activity prevents accumulatio...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sowd GA,Mody D,Eggold J,Cortez D,Friedman KL,Fanning E

更新日期：2014-12-04 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：:HIV-1 strains harboring immune escape mutations can persist in circulation, but the impact of selection by multiple HLA alleles on population HIV-1 dynamics remains unclear. In Japan, HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase codon 135 (RT135) is under strong immune pressure by HLA-B*51:01-restricted and HLA-B*52:01-restricted T ce...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Akahoshi T,Gatanaga H,Kuse N,Chikata T,Koyanagi M,Ishizuka N,Brumme CJ,Murakoshi H,Brumme ZL,Oka S,Takiguchi M

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Current understanding of adaptive immune, particularly T cell, responses to human rhinoviruses (RV) is limited. Memory T cells are thought to be of a primarily T helper 1 type, but both T helper 1 and T helper 2 memory cells have been described, and heightened T helper 2/ lessened T helper 1 responses have been associ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Glanville N,Peel TJ,Schröder A,Aniscenko J,Walton RP,Finotto S,Johnston SL

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic oncotropism and oncosuppressive activities of rodent protoparvoviruses (PVs) are opening new prospects for cancer virotherapy. Virus propagation, cytolytic activity, and spread are tightly connected to activation of the PDK1 signaling cascade, which delays stress-induced cell death and sustains functioni...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bär S,Rommelaere J,Nüesch JP

更新日期：2015-03-05 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：: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：:G3BP-1 and -2 (hereafter referred to as G3BP) are multifunctional RNA-binding proteins involved in stress granule (SG) assembly. Viruses from diverse families target G3BP for recruitment to replication or transcription complexes in order to block SG assembly but also to acquire pro-viral effects via other unknown func...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Götte B,Panas MD,Hellström K,Liu L,Samreen B,Larsson O,Ahola T,McInerney GM

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon Regulatory Factor 8 (IRF8) is required for development, maturation and expression of anti-microbial defenses of myeloid cells. BXH2 mice harbor a severely hypomorphic allele at Irf8 (Irf8(R294C)) that causes susceptibility to infection with intracellular pathogens including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We re...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Berghout J,Langlais D,Radovanovic I,Tam M,MacMicking JD,Stevenson MM,Gros P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00