Cytoplasmic viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase disrupts the intracellular splicing machinery by entering the nucleus and interfering with Prp8.

abstract：:Human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1) belongs to the genus Bocaparvovirus of the Parvoviridae family, and is an emerging human pathogenic respiratory virus. In vitro, HBoV1 infects well-differentiated/polarized primary human airway epithelium (HAE) cultured at an air-liquid interface (HAE-ALI). Although it is well known that auto...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Deng X,Yan Z,Cheng F,Engelhardt JF,Qiu J

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical strains of HCMV encode 20 putative ORFs within a region of the genome termed ULb' that are postulated to encode functions related to persistence or immune evasion. We have previously identified ULb'-encoded pUL138 as necessary, but not sufficient, for HCMV latency in CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Umashankar M,Petrucelli A,Cicchini L,Caposio P,Kreklywich CN,Rak M,Bughio F,Goldman DC,Hamlin KL,Nelson JA,Fleming WH,Streblow DN,Goodrum F

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EBV transforms B cells in vitro and causes human B-cell lymphomas including classical Hodgkin lymphoma (CHL), Burkitt lymphoma (BL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The EBV latency protein, EBNA2, transcriptionally activates the promoters of all latent viral protein-coding genes expressed in type III EBV lat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li C,Romero-Masters JC,Huebner S,Ohashi M,Hayes M,Bristol JA,Nelson SE,Eichelberg MR,Van Sciver N,Ranheim EA,Scott RS,Johannsen EC,Kenney SC

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As a canonical adaptor for the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family, myeloid differentiation primary response protein 88 (MyD88) has crucial roles in host defense against infection by microbial pathogens, and its dysregulation might induce autoimmune diseases. Here, we demonstrate that the chicken Cullin 3-based ubiquitin ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li Q,Wang F,Wang Q,Zhang N,Zheng J,Zheng M,Liu R,Cui H,Wen J,Zhao G

更新日期：2020-05-04 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：:The sedentary plant-parasitic nematodes are considered among the most economically damaging pathogens of plants. Following infection and the establishment of a feeding site, sedentary nematodes become immobile. Loss of mobility is reversed in adult males while females never regain mobility. The structural basis for th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Han Z,Thapa S,Reuter-Carlson U,Reed H,Gates M,Lambert KN,Schroeder NE

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that govern the development of tuberculosis disease are incompletely understood. We hypothesized that some strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) are more capable of causing disseminated disease than others and may be associated with polymorphisms in host genes responsible for the innate i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Caws M,Thwaites G,Dunstan S,Hawn TR,Lan NT,Thuong NT,Stepniewska K,Huyen MN,Bang ND,Loc TH,Gagneux S,van Soolingen D,Kremer K,van der Sande M,Small P,Anh PT,Chinh NT,Quy HT,Duyen NT,Tho DQ,Hieu NT,Torok E,Hien

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human APOBEC3 proteins are cytidine deaminases that contribute broadly to innate immunity through the control of exogenous retrovirus replication and endogenous retroelement retrotransposition. As an intrinsic antiretroviral defense mechanism, APOBEC3 proteins induce extensive guanosine-to-adenosine (G-to-A) mutagenes...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kim EY,Lorenzo-Redondo R,Little SJ,Chung YS,Phalora PK,Maljkovic Berry I,Archer J,Penugonda S,Fischer W,Richman DD,Bhattacharya T,Malim MH,Wolinsky SM

更新日期：2014-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component, self-assembling nanoparticles represent a versatile platform for multivalent presentation of viral antigens. Computational design of protein nanoparticles with differing sizes and geometries enables combination with antigens of choice to test novel multimerization concepts in immunization strategies whe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Antanasijevic A,Ueda G,Brouwer PJM,Copps J,Huang D,Allen JD,Cottrell CA,Yasmeen A,Sewall LM,Bontjer I,Ketas TJ,Turner HL,Berndsen ZT,Montefiori DC,Klasse PJ,Crispin M,Nemazee D,Moore JP,Sanders RW,King NP,Baker D

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus (EBOV) is a highly pathogenic filovirus that causes hemorrhagic fever in humans and animals. Currently, how EBOV fuses its envelope membrane within an endosomal membrane to cause infection is poorly understood. We successfully measure cell-cell fusion mediated by the EBOV fusion protein, GP, assayed by the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Markosyan RM,Miao C,Zheng YM,Melikyan GB,Liu SL,Cohen FS

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococci are robust gram-positive bacteria that are found in a variety of surroundings and that cause a significant number of healthcare-associated infections. The genus possesses a high-efficiency pheromone-responsive plasmid (PRP) transfer system for genetic exchange that allows antimicrobial-resistance determina...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sterling AJ,Snelling WJ,Naughton PJ,Ternan NG,Dooley JSG

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:All pathogenesis and death associated with Plasmodium falciparum malaria is due to parasite-infected erythrocytes. Invasion of erythrocytes by P. falciparum merozoites requires specific interactions between host receptors and parasite ligands that are localized in apical organelles called micronemes. Here, we identify...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dawn A,Singh S,More KR,Siddiqui FA,Pachikara N,Ramdani G,Langsley G,Chitnis CE

更新日期：2014-12-18 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：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is one of the most virulent enteroviruses, but the specific molecular features that enhance its ability to disseminate in humans remain unknown. We analyzed the genomic features of EV71 in an immunocompromised host with disseminated disease according to the different sites of infection. Compariso...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cordey S,Petty TJ,Schibler M,Martinez Y,Gerlach D,van Belle S,Turin L,Zdobnov E,Kaiser L,Tapparel C

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Herpesviruses infect most humans. Their infections can be associated with pathological conditions and significant changes in T cell repertoire but evidences of symbiotic effects of herpesvirus latency have never been demonstrated. We tested the hypothesis that HCMV and EBV-specific CD8 T cells contribute to the hetero...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sandalova E,Laccabue D,Boni C,Tan AT,Fink K,Ooi EE,Chua R,Shafaeddin Schreve B,Ferrari C,Bertoletti A

更新日期：2010-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:While the exopolysaccharide component of the biofilm matrix has been intensively studied, much less is known about matrix-associated proteins. To better understand the role of these proteins, we undertook a proteomic analysis of the V. cholerae biofilm matrix. Here we show that the two matrix-associated proteins, Bap1...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Absalon C,Van Dellen K,Watnick PI

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory condition of diverse etiology. Exposure to foodborne pathogens causing acute gastroenteritis produces a long-term risk of CD well into the post-infectious period but the mechanistic basis for this ongoing relationship to disease onset is unknown. We developed two novel mo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Small CL,Xing L,McPhee JB,Law HT,Coombes BK

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV)--a member of the alphavirus-like supergroup of viruses--serves as a model system for positive-stranded RNA virus membrane-bound replication. TYMV encodes a precursor replication polyprotein that is processed by the endoproteolytic activity of its internal cysteine proteinase domain (P...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lombardi C,Ayach M,Beaurepaire L,Chenon M,Andreani J,Guerois R,Jupin I,Bressanelli S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have evolved pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI) to protect themselves from infection by diverse pathogens. Avirulence (Avr) effectors that trigger plant ETI as a result of recognition by plant resistance (R) gene products have been identif...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dong S,Yin W,Kong G,Yang X,Qutob D,Chen Q,Kale SD,Sui Y,Zhang Z,Dou D,Zheng X,Gijzen M,Tyler BM,Wang Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To cause infections microbes need to evade host defense systems, one of these being the evolutionarily old and important arm of innate immunity, the alternative pathway of complement. It can attack all kinds of targets and is tightly controlled in plasma and on host cells by plasma complement regulator factor H (FH). ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Meri T,Amdahl H,Lehtinen MJ,Hyvärinen S,McDowell JV,Bhattacharjee A,Meri S,Marconi R,Goldman A,Jokiranta TS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax protein hijacks the host ubiquitin machinery to activate IκB kinases (IKKs) and NF-κB and promote cell survival; however, the key ubiquitinated factors downstream of Tax involved in cell transformation are unknown. Using mass spectrometry, we undertook an unbiased pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Choi YB,Harhaj EW

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission of Helicobacter pylori is thought to occur mainly during childhood, and predominantly within families. However, due to the difficulty of obtaining H. pylori isolates from large population samples and to the extensive genetic diversity between isolates, the transmission and spread of H. pylori remain poorl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schwarz S,Morelli G,Kusecek B,Manica A,Balloux F,Owen RJ,Graham DY,van der Merwe S,Achtman M,Suerbaum S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human noroviruses (huNoV) are the most frequent cause of non-bacterial acute gastroenteritis worldwide, particularly genogroup II genotype 4 (GII.4) variants. The viral nonstructural (NS) proteins encoded by the ORF1 polyprotein induce vesical clusters harboring the viral replication sites. Little is known so far abou...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Doerflinger SY,Cortese M,Romero-Brey I,Menne Z,Tubiana T,Schenk C,White PA,Bartenschlager R,Bressanelli S,Hansman GS,Lohmann V

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) capsids are found in many forms: immature single-stranded RNA-filled cores, single-stranded DNA-filled replication intermediates, mature cores with relaxed circular double-stranded DNA, and empty capsids. A capsid, the protein shell of the core, is a complex of 240 copies of core protein. Matur...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen C,Wang JC,Pierson EE,Keifer DZ,Delaleau M,Gallucci L,Cazenave C,Kann M,Jarrold MF,Zlotnick A

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) lesions are complex mixtures of KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV)-infected spindle and inflammatory cells. In order to survive the host immune responses, KSHV encodes a number of immunomodulatory proteins, including the E3 ubiquitin ligase K5. In exploring the role of this viral protein in monocyt...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Karki R,Lang SM,Means RE

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified from the mutualistic grass endophyte Epichloë festucae a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase gene (sidN) encoding a siderophore synthetase. The enzymatic product of SidN is shown to be a novel extracellular siderophore designated as epichloënin A, related to ferrirubin from the ferrichrome family. Targ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Johnson LJ,Koulman A,Christensen M,Lane GA,Fraser K,Forester N,Johnson RD,Bryan GT,Rasmussen S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the majority of pathogenic Salmonella serovars are capable of infecting many different animal species, typically producing a self-limited gastroenteritis, serovars with narrow host-specificity exhibit increased virulence and their infections frequently result in fatal systemic diseases. In our study, a genetic...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kisiela DI,Chattopadhyay S,Libby SJ,Karlinsey JE,Fang FC,Tchesnokova V,Kramer JJ,Beskhlebnaya V,Samadpour M,Grzymajlo K,Ugorski M,Lankau EW,Mackie RI,Clegg S,Sokurenko EV

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As targets of adaptive immunity, influenza viruses are characterized by the fluidity with which they respond to the selective pressure applied by neutralizing antibodies. This mutability of structural determinants of protective immunity is the obstacle in developing universal influenza vaccines. Towards the developmen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang TT,Tan GS,Hai R,Pica N,Petersen E,Moran TM,Palese P

更新日期：2010-02-26 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