Dual miRNA targeting restricts host range and attenuates neurovirulence of flaviviruses.

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae is the causal agent of rice blast disease, a devastating problem worldwide. This fungus has caused breakdown of resistance conferred by newly developed commercial cultivars. To address how the rice blast fungus adapts itself to new resistance genes so quickly, we examined chromosomal locations of AV...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chuma I,Isobe C,Hotta Y,Ibaragi K,Futamata N,Kusaba M,Yoshida K,Terauchi R,Fujita Y,Nakayashiki H,Valent B,Tosa Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS, a.k.a. MB21D1), a cytosolic DNA sensor, catalyzes formation of the second messenger 2'3'-cGAMP that activates the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) signaling. How the cGAS activity is modulated remains largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that sentrin/SUMO-specific protease...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cui Y,Yu H,Zheng X,Peng R,Wang Q,Zhou Y,Wang R,Wang J,Qu B,Shen N,Guo Q,Liu X,Wang C

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The coordinated exit of intracellular pathogens from host cells is a process critical to the success and spread of an infection. While phospholipases have been shown to play important roles in bacteria host cell egress and virulence, their role in the release of intracellular eukaryotic parasites is largely unknown. W...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Burda PC,Roelli MA,Schaffner M,Khan SM,Janse CJ,Heussler VT

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Type VI secretion systems (T6SS) are trans-envelope machines dedicated to the secretion of virulence factors into eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells, therefore required for pathogenesis and/or for competition towards neighboring bacteria. The T6SS apparatus resembles the injection device of bacteriophage T4, and is ancho...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Felisberto-Rodrigues C,Durand E,Aschtgen MS,Blangy S,Ortiz-Lombardia M,Douzi B,Cambillau C,Cascales E

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:Clonorchis sinensis is a carcinogenic human liver fluke, prolonged infection which provokes chronic inflammation, epithelial hyperplasia, periductal fibrosis, and even cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). These effects are driven by direct physical damage caused by the worms, as well as chemical irritation from their excretory-s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Won J,Cho Y,Lee D,Jeon BY,Ju JW,Chung S,Pak JH

更新日期：2019-05-23 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：:The cystic fibrosis (CF) lung microbiome has been studied in children and adults; however, little is known about its relationship to early disease progression. To better understand the relationship between the lung microbiome and early respiratory disease, we characterized the lower airways microbiome using bronchoalv...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Muhlebach MS,Zorn BT,Esther CR,Hatch JE,Murray CP,Turkovic L,Ranganathan SC,Boucher RC,Stick SM,Wolfgang MC

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An unprecedented epidemic of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection recently started in countries of the Indian Ocean area, causing an acute and painful syndrome with strong fever, asthenia, skin rash, polyarthritis, and lethal cases of encephalitis. The basis for chikungunya disease and the tropism of CHIKV remain unkno...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sourisseau M,Schilte C,Casartelli N,Trouillet C,Guivel-Benhassine F,Rudnicka D,Sol-Foulon N,Le Roux K,Prevost MC,Fsihi H,Frenkiel MP,Blanchet F,Afonso PV,Ceccaldi PE,Ozden S,Gessain A,Schuffenecker I,Verhasselt B,Zamb

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Phytopathogenic ascomycete fungi possess huge effector repertoires that are dominated by hundreds of sequence-unrelated small secreted proteins. The molecular function of these effectors and the evolutionary mechanisms that generate this tremendous number of singleton genes are largely unknown. To get a deeper underst...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Guillen K,Ortiz-Vallejo D,Gracy J,Fournier E,Kroj T,Padilla A

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulatory networks are fundamental to how microbes alter gene expression in response to environmental stimuli, thereby playing a critical role in bacterial pathogenesis. However, understanding how bacterial transcriptional regulatory networks function during host-pathogen interaction is limited. Recen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shelburne SA,Olsen RJ,Suber B,Sahasrabhojane P,Sumby P,Brennan RG,Musser JM

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Viroporins are small transmembrane proteins with ion channel activities modulating properties of intracellular membranes that have diverse proviral functions. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) encodes a viroporin, p7, acting during assembly, envelopment and secretion of viral particles (VP). HCV p7 is released from the viral po...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Denolly S,Mialon C,Bourlet T,Amirache F,Penin F,Lindenbach B,Boson B,Cosset FL

更新日期：2017-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) has antiviral functions and many viruses encode gene products that disrupt PML nuclear bodies (PML NBs). However, evidence of the relevance of PML NB modification for viral pathogenesis is limited and little is known about viral gene functions required for PML NB disruption in infe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang L,Oliver SL,Sommer M,Rajamani J,Reichelt M,Arvin AM

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Abilities of bacterial pathogens to adapt to the iron limitation present in hosts is critical to their virulence. Bacterial pathogens have evolved diverse strategies to coordinately regulate iron metabolism and virulence associated functions to maintain iron homeostasis in response to changing iron availability in the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pandey SS,Patnana PK,Lomada SK,Tomar A,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8+ T cell responses to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lytic cycle expressed antigens display a hierarchy of immunodominance, in which responses to epitopes of immediate-early (IE) and some early (E) antigens are more frequently observed than responses to epitopes of late (L) expressed antigens. It has been proposed that t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Quinn LL,Zuo J,Abbott RJ,Shannon-Lowe C,Tierney RJ,Hislop AD,Rowe M

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) nonstructural protein 2 (NS2) is a hydrophobic, transmembrane protein that is required not only for NS2-NS3 cleavage, but also for infectious virus production. To identify cellular factors that interact with NS2 and are important for HCV propagation, we screened a human liver cDNA library by sp...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Suzuki R,Matsuda M,Watashi K,Aizaki H,Matsuura Y,Wakita T,Suzuki T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjunctive vitamin D treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis enhances resolution of inflammation but has modest effects on bacterial clearance. Sodium 4-phenylbutyrate (PBA) is in clinical use for a range of conditions and has been shown to synergise with vitamin D metabolites to upregulate cathelicidin antimicrobial pep...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Coussens AK,Wilkinson RJ,Martineau AR

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial infections are increasingly being recognised as a major patient safety issue. The modern hospital environment and associated health care practices have provided a niche for the rapid evolution of microbial pathogens that are well adapted to surviving and proliferating in this setting, after which they can i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Carter GP,Douce GR,Govind R,Howarth PM,Mackin KE,Spencer J,Buckley AM,Antunes A,Kotsanas D,Jenkin GA,Dupuy B,Rood JI,Lyras D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular parasites, such as Leishmania spp, must acquire suitable carbon sources from the host cell in order to replicate. Here we present evidence that intracellular amastigote stages of Leishmania exploit amino sugars in the phagolysosome of mammalian macrophages as a source of carbon and energy. L. major paras...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Naderer T,Heng J,McConville MJ

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that persists lifelong in the host. In ∼4% of infected people, HTLV-1 causes a chronic disabling neuroinflammatory disease known as HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). The pathogenesis of HAM/TSP is unknown and treatment remain...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tattermusch S,Skinner JA,Chaussabel D,Banchereau J,Berry MP,McNab FW,O'Garra A,Taylor GP,Bangham CR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV)--and herpesviruses in general--encode for a multipartite entry/fusion apparatus. In HSV it consists of the HSV-specific glycoprotein D (gD), and three additional glycoproteins, gH/gL and gB, conserved across the Herpesviridae family and responsible for the execution of fusion. According to t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gianni T,Salvioli S,Chesnokova LS,Hutt-Fletcher LM,Campadelli-Fiume G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuraminidase (NA) inhibitor (NAI) oseltamivir (OST) is the most widely used influenza antiviral drug. Several NA amino acid substitutions are reported to reduce viral susceptibility to OST in in vitro assays. However, whether there is a correlation between the level of reduction in susceptibility in vitro and the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Farrukee R,Tai CM,Oh DY,Anderson DE,Gunalan V,Hibberd M,Lau GY,Barr IG,Messling VV,Maurer-Stroh S,Hurt AC

更新日期：2020-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloidosis describes a group of protein folding diseases in which amyloid proteins are abnormally deposited in organs and/or tissues as fine fibrils. Mouse senile amyloidosis is a disorder in which apolipoprotein A-II (apoA-II) deposits as amyloid fibrils (AApoAII) and can be transmitted from one animal to another bo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Qian J,Yan J,Ge F,Zhang B,Fu X,Tomozawa H,Sawashita J,Mori M,Higuchi K

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax can cause severe malaria, however its pathogenesis is poorly understood. In contrast to P. falciparum, circulating vivax parasitemia is low, with minimal apparent sequestration in endothelium-lined microvasculature, and pathogenesis thought unrelated to parasite biomass. However, the relationships bet...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Barber BE,William T,Grigg MJ,Parameswaran U,Piera KA,Price RN,Yeo TW,Anstey NM

更新日期：2015-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpesviruses, like most other DNA viruses, replicate in the host cell nucleus. Subnuclear domains known as promyelocytic leukemia protein nuclear bodies (PML-NBs), or ND10 bodies, have been implicated in restricting early herpesviral gene expression. These viruses have evolved countermeasures to disperse PML-NBs,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Reichelt M,Wang L,Sommer M,Perrino J,Nour AM,Sen N,Baiker A,Zerboni L,Arvin AM

更新日期：2011-02-03 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：:Malaria vaccine candidate Apical Membrane Antigen-1 (AMA1) induces protection, but only against parasite strains that are closely related to the vaccine. Overcoming the AMA1 diversity problem will require an understanding of the structural basis of cross-strain invasion inhibition. A vaccine containing four diverse al...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dutta S,Dlugosz LS,Drew DR,Ge X,Ababacar D,Rovira YI,Moch JK,Shi M,Long CA,Foley M,Beeson JG,Anders RF,Miura K,Haynes JD,Batchelor AH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Gram-negative bacteria use Type Three Secretion Systems (T3SS) to deliver effector proteins into host cells. These protein delivery machines are composed of cytosolic components that recognize substrates and generate the force needed for translocation, the secretion conduit, formed by a needle complex and associa...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Archuleta TL,Spiller BW

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00