VE-cadherin cleavage by LasB protease from Pseudomonas aeruginosa facilitates type III secretion system toxicity in endothelial cells.

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus USA300 strains cause a highly inflammatory necrotizing pneumonia. The virulence of this strain has been attributed to its expression of multiple toxins that have diverse targets including ADAM10, NLRP3 and CD11b. We demonstrate that induction of necroptosis through RIP1/RIP3/MLKL signaling is a m...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kitur K,Parker D,Nieto P,Ahn DS,Cohen TS,Chung S,Wachtel S,Bueno S,Prince A

更新日期：2015-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate calculation of mutation rates for viruses and viroids is necessary for evolutionary studies and to evaluate adaptation potential. However, estimation of in vivo mutation rates is complicated by selection, which leads to loss or proliferation of certain mutations. To minimize this concern, lethal mutations, in...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wu J,Bisaro DM

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Eradication of tuberculosis (TB), the world's leading cause of death due to infectious disease, requires a highly efficacious TB vaccine. Many TB vaccine candidates are in pre-clinical and clinical development but only a few can be advanced to large-scale efficacy trials due to limited global resources. We aimed to pe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rodo MJ,Rozot V,Nemes E,Dintwe O,Hatherill M,Little F,Scriba TJ

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the importance of humoral immunity to malaria has been established, factors that control antibody production are poorly understood. Follicular helper T cells (Tfh cells) are pivotal for generating high-affinity, long-lived antibody responses. While it has been proposed that expansion of antigen-specific Tfh c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Figueiredo MM,Costa PAC,Diniz SQ,Henriques PM,Kano FS,Tada MS,Pereira DB,Soares IS,Martins-Filho OA,Jankovic D,Gazzinelli RT,Antonelli LRDV

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichothecenes are a family of terpenoid toxins produced by multiple genera of fungi, including plant and insect pathogens. Some trichothecenes produced by the fungus Fusarium are among the mycotoxins of greatest concern to food and feed safety because of their toxicity and frequent occurrence in cereal crops, and tri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Proctor RH,McCormick SP,Kim HS,Cardoza RE,Stanley AM,Lindo L,Kelly A,Brown DW,Lee T,Vaughan MM,Alexander NJ,Busman M,Gutiérrez S

更新日期：2018-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the most virulent pathogen among enteroviruses that cause hand, foot and mouth disease in children but rarely in adults. The mechanisms that determine the age-dependent susceptibility remain largely unclear. Here, we found that the paucity of invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells together wi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhu K,Yang J,Luo K,Yang C,Zhang N,Xu R,Chen J,Jin M,Xu B,Guo N,Wang J,Chen Z,Cui Y,Zhao H,Wang Y,Deng C,Bai L,Ge B,Qin CF,Shen H,Yang CF,Leng Q

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, invades and replicates within macrophages and protozoan cells inside a vacuole. The type IVB Icm/Dot secretion system is necessary for the translocation of effector proteins that modulate vesicle trafficking pathways in the host cell, thus avoiding ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Franco IS,Shohdy N,Shuman HA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the significance of a conserved five-amino acid motif 'AELPR' in the C-terminal region of helper component-proteinase (HCPro) for potato virus A (PVA; genus Potyvirus) infection. This motif is a putative interaction site for WD40 domain-containing proteins, including VARICOSE (VCS). We a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： De S,Pollari M,Varjosalo M,Mäkinen K

更新日期：2020-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus that has caused a worldwide pandemic of the human respiratory illness COVID-19, resulting in a severe threat to public health and safety. Analysis of the genetic tree suggests that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the same Betacoronavirus group a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tang D,Comish P,Kang R

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent emergence of a novel H7N9 influenza A virus (IAV) causing severe human infections in China raises concerns about a possible pandemic. The lack of pre-existing neutralizing antibodies in the broader population highlights the potential protective role of IAV-specific CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) memory...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Duan S,Meliopoulos VA,McClaren JL,Guo XZ,Sanders CJ,Smallwood HS,Webby RJ,Schultz-Cherry SL,Doherty PC,Thomas PG

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite considerable research efforts, little is yet known about key epidemiological parameters of H5N1 highly pathogenic influenza viruses in their avian hosts. Here we show how these parameters can be estimated using a limited number of birds in experimental transmission studies. Our quantitative estimates, based on...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bouma A,Claassen I,Natih K,Klinkenberg D,Donnelly CA,Koch G,van Boven M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of next-generation sequencing platforms is set to reveal an unprecedented level of detail on short-term molecular evolutionary processes in bacteria. Here we re-analyse genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) datasets for recently emerged clones of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Castillo-Ramírez S,Harris SR,Holden MT,He M,Parkhill J,Bentley SD,Feil EJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesviruses are antigenically rich agents that induce strong CD8+T cell responses in primary infection yet persist for life, continually challenging T cell memory through recurrent lytic replication and potentially influencing the spectrum of antigen-specific responses. Here we describe the first lytic proteom...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Forrest C,Hislop AD,Rickinson AB,Zuo J

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducing broad spectrum neutralizing antibodies against challenging pathogens such as HIV-1 is a major vaccine design goal, but may be hindered by conformational instability within viral envelope glycoproteins (Env). Chemical cross-linking is widely used for vaccine antigen stabilization, but how this process affects ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schiffner T,Pallesen J,Russell RA,Dodd J,de Val N,LaBranche CC,Montefiori D,Tomaras GD,Shen X,Harris SL,Moghaddam AE,Kalyuzhniy O,Sanders RW,McCoy LE,Moore JP,Ward AB,Sattentau QJ

更新日期：2018-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 Vpu protein is expressed from a bi-cistronic message late in the viral life cycle. It functions during viral assembly to maximise infectious virus release by targeting CD4 for proteosomal degradation and counteracting the antiviral protein tetherin (BST2/CD317). Single genome analysis of vpu repertoires thro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pickering S,Hué S,Kim EY,Reddy S,Wolinsky SM,Neil SJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestine is a common site for invasion by intracellular pathogens, but little is known about how pathogens restructure and exit intestinal cells in vivo. The natural microsporidian parasite N. parisii invades intestinal cells of the nematode C. elegans, progresses through its life cycle, and then exits cells in a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Estes KA,Szumowski SC,Troemel ER

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) replicates its 3 kb DNA genome through capsid-internal reverse transcription, initiated by assembly of 120 core protein (HBc) dimers around a complex of viral pregenomic (pg) RNA and polymerase. Following synthesis of relaxed circular (RC) DNA capsids can be enveloped and secreted as stable vir...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Heger-Stevic J,Zimmermann P,Lecoq L,Böttcher B,Nassal M

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous human γ-herpesvirus that can give rise to cancers of both B-cell and epithelial cell origin. In EBV-induced cancers of epithelial origin, including nasopharyngeal carcinomas (NPCs) and gastric carcinomas, the latent EBV genome expresses very high levels of a cluster of 22 viral...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kang D,Skalsky RL,Cullen BR

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant microRNAs (miRNA) guide cleavage of target mRNAs by DICER-like proteins, thereby reducing mRNA abundance. Native precursor miRNAs can be redesigned to target RNAs of interest, and one application of such artificial microRNA (amiRNA) technology is to generate plants resistant to pathogenic viruses. Transgenic Ara...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lin SS,Wu HW,Elena SF,Chen KC,Niu QW,Yeh SD,Chen CC,Chua NH

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian prion structures and replication mechanisms are poorly understood. Most synthetic recombinant prion protein (rPrP) amyloids prepared without cofactors are non-infectious or much less infectious than bona fide tissue-derived PrPSc. This effect has been associated with differences in folding of the aggregates,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Groveman BR,Raymond GJ,Campbell KJ,Race B,Raymond LD,Hughson AG,Orrú CD,Kraus A,Phillips K,Caughey B

更新日期：2017-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The tremendous success of S. aureus as a human pathogen has been explained primarily by its array of virulence factors that enable the organism to evade host immunity. Perhaps equally important, but less well understood, is the importance of the intensity of the host response in determining the extent of pathology ind...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Parker D,Planet PJ,Soong G,Narechania A,Prince A

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylated derivatives of phosphatidylinositol (PIPs) are key membrane lipid residues involved in clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME). CME relies on PIP species PI(4,5)P2 to mark endocytic sites at the plasma membrane (PM) associated to clathrin-coated vesicle (CCV) formation. The highly diverged parasitic protist...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cernikova L,Faso C,Hehl AB

更新日期：2020-02-24 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：:Successful replication and transmission of large DNA viruses such as the cytomegaloviruses (CMV) family of viruses depends on the ability to interfere with multiple aspects of the host immune response. Apoptosis functions as a host innate defence mechanism against viral infection, and the capacity to interfere with th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Fleming P,Kvansakul M,Voigt V,Kile BT,Kluck RM,Huang DC,Degli-Esposti MA,Andoniou CE

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of Ebola virus (EBOV) infection has been demonstrated in vitro, raising concerns about the detrimental potential of some anti-EBOV antibodies. ADE has been described for many viruses and mostly depends on the cross-linking of virus-antibody complexes to cell surface Fc receptors, l...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Furuyama W,Marzi A,Carmody AB,Maruyama J,Kuroda M,Miyamoto H,Nanbo A,Manzoor R,Yoshida R,Igarashi M,Feldmann H,Takada A

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant pathogens secrete an arsenal of effector proteins to impair host immunity. Some effectors possess enzymatic activities that can modify their host targets. Previously, we demonstrated that a Phytophthora sojae RXLR effector Avr3b acts as a Nudix hydrolase when expressed in planta; and this enzymatic activity is r...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kong G,Zhao Y,Jing M,Huang J,Yang J,Xia Y,Kong L,Ye W,Xiong Q,Qiao Y,Dong S,Ma W,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2003, more than 380 cases of H5N1 influenza virus infection of humans have been reported. Although the resultant disease in these cases was often severe or fatal, transmission of avian influenza viruses between humans is rare. The precise nature of the barrier blocking human-to-human spread is unknown. It is cle...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Steel J,Lowen AC,Mubareka S,Palese P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous pathogen that can cause disability in newborns and serious clinical diseases in immunocompromised patients. HCMV has a large genome with enormous coding potential; its viral particles are equipped with complicated glycoprotein complexes and can infect a wide range of human ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ye X,Gui X,Freed DC,Ku Z,Li L,Chen Y,Xiong W,Fan X,Su H,He X,Rustandi RR,Loughney JW,Ma N,Espeseth AS,Liu J,Zhu H,Wang D,Zhang N,Fu TM,An Z

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00