EBV BART MicroRNAs Target Multiple Pro-apoptotic Cellular Genes to Promote Epithelial Cell Survival.

abstract：:The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear proteins EBNA3A, EBNA3B, and EBNA3C interact with the cell DNA binding protein RBPJ and regulate cell and viral genes. Repression of the CDKN2A tumor suppressor gene products p16(INK4A) and p14(ARF) by EBNA3A and EBNA3C is critical for EBV mediated transformation of resting B lymph...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ohashi M,Holthaus AM,Calderwood MA,Lai CY,Krastins B,Sarracino D,Johannsen E

更新日期：2015-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of Francisella tularensis, the etiological agent of tularemia, relies on an atypical type VI secretion system (T6SS) encoded by a genomic island termed the Francisella Pathogenicity Island (FPI). While the importance of the FPI in F. tularensis virulence is clearly established, the precise role of most o...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rigard M,Bröms JE,Mosnier A,Hologne M,Martin A,Lindgren L,Punginelli C,Lays C,Walker O,Charbit A,Telouk P,Conlan W,Terradot L,Sjöstedt A,Henry T

更新日期：2016-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Many biological processes are controlled by intricate networks of transcriptional regulators. With the development of microarray technology, transcriptional changes can be examined at the whole-genome level. However, such analysis often lacks information on the hierarchical relationship between components of a given s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang D,Amornsiripanitch N,Dong X

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful treatment of aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus fumigatus is threatened by an increasing incidence of drug resistance. This situation is further complicated by the finding that strains resistant to azoles, the major antifungal drugs for aspergillosis, have been widely disseminated across the globe. To eluc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hagiwara D,Miura D,Shimizu K,Paul S,Ohba A,Gonoi T,Watanabe A,Kamei K,Shintani T,Moye-Rowley WS,Kawamoto S,Gomi K

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Environments such as light condition influence the spread of infectious diseases by affecting insect vector behavior. However, whether and how light affects the host defense which further affects insect preference and performance, remains unclear, nor has been demonstrated how pathogens co-adapt light condition to fac...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhao P,Zhang X,Gong Y,Wang D,Xu D,Wang N,Sun Y,Gao L,Liu SS,Deng XW,Kliebenstein DJ,Zhou X,Fang RX,Ye J

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful infection of the host requires secretion of effector proteins to evade or suppress plant immunity. Secretion of effectors in root-infecting fungal pathogens, however, remains unexplored. We previously reported that Verticillium dahliae, a root-infecting phytopathogenic fungus, develops a penetration peg fro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhou TT,Zhao YL,Guo HS

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:All gammaherpesviruses encode a major glycoprotein homologous to the Epstein-Barr virus gp350. These glycoproteins are often involved in cell binding, and some provide neutralization targets. However, the capacity of gammaherpesviruses for long-term transmission from immune hosts implies that in vivo neutralization is...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Machiels B,Lété C,Guillaume A,Mast J,Stevenson PG,Vanderplasschen A,Gillet L

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root-knot nematodes secrete effectors that manipulate their host plant cells so that the nematode can successfully establish feeding sites and complete its lifecycle. The root-knot nematode feeding structures, their "giant cells," undergo extensive cytoskeletal remodeling. Previous cytological studies have shown the c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Leelarasamee N,Zhang L,Gleason C

更新日期：2018-03-15 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：:Blocking neurotransmission, botulinum neurotoxin is the most poisonous biological substance known to mankind. Despite its infamy as the scourge of the food industry, the neurotoxin is increasingly used as a pharmaceutical to treat an expanding range of muscle disorders. Whilst neurotoxin expression by the spore-formin...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang Z,Korkeala H,Dahlsten E,Sahala E,Heap JT,Minton NP,Lindström M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and related lymphocryptoviruses (LCV) from non-human primates infect B cells, transform their growth to facilitate life-long viral persistence in the host, and contribute to B cell oncogenesis. Co-evolution of LCV with their primate hosts has led to species-specificity so that LCVs preferentia...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mühe J,Wang F

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is essential for nearly all bacterial pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), but is severely limited in the human host. To meet its iron needs, Mtb secretes siderophores, small molecules with high affinity for iron, and takes up iron-loaded mycobactins (MBT) and carboxymycobactins (cMBT), from the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang L,Hendrickson RC,Meikle V,Lefkowitz EJ,Ioerger TR,Niederweis M

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002924.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Grard G,Fair JN,Lee D,Slikas E,Steffen I,Muyembe JJ,Sittler T,Veeraraghavan N,Ruby JG,Wang C,Makuwa M,Mulembakani P,Tesh RB,Mazet J,Rimoin AW,Taylor T,Schneider BS,Simmons G,Delwart E,Wolfe ND,Chiu CY,Leroy EM

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectin-like bacteriocins consist of tandem monocot mannose-binding domains and display a genus-specific killing activity. Here we show that pyocin L1, a novel member of this family from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, targets susceptible strains of this species through recognition of the common polysaccharide antigen (CPA) of...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： McCaughey LC,Grinter R,Josts I,Roszak AW,Waløen KI,Cogdell RJ,Milner J,Evans T,Kelly S,Tucker NP,Byron O,Smith B,Walker D

更新日期：2014-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, with fatality rates in humans of up to 90%. The molecular basis for the extreme virulence of ZEBOV remains elusive. While adult mice resist ZEBOV infection, the Mayinga strain of the virus has been adapted to cause lethal infecti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ebihara H,Takada A,Kobasa D,Jones S,Neumann G,Theriault S,Bray M,Feldmann H,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:The process by which drug-resistant HIV-1 arises and spreads spatially within an infected individual is poorly understood. Studies have found variable results relating how HIV-1 in the blood differs from virus sampled in tissues, offering conflicting findings about whether HIV-1 throughout the body is homogeneously di...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Feder AF,Kline C,Polacino P,Cottrell M,Kashuba ADM,Keele BF,Hu SL,Petrov DA,Pennings PS,Ambrose Z

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebolavirus (EBOV), the causative agent of a severe hemorrhagic fever and a biosafety level 4 pathogen, increases its genome coding capacity by producing multiple transcripts encoding for structural and nonstructural glycoproteins from a single gene. This is achieved through RNA editing, during which non-template adeno...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mehedi M,Hoenen T,Robertson S,Ricklefs S,Dolan MA,Taylor T,Falzarano D,Ebihara H,Porcella SF,Feldmann H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next to the two-component and quorum sensing systems, cell-surface signaling (CSS) has been recently identified as an important regulatory system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. CSS systems sense signals from outside the cell and transmit them into the cytoplasm. They generally consist of a TonB-dependent outer membrane re...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Llamas MA,van der Sar A,Chu BC,Sparrius M,Vogel HJ,Bitter W

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the major candidate phylum Dependentiae (a.k.a. TM6) are widespread across diverse environments from showerheads to peat bogs; yet, with the exception of two isolates infecting amoebae, they are only known from metagenomic data. The limited knowledge of their biology indicates that they have a long evolutio...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Deeg CM,Zimmer MM,George EE,Husnik F,Keeling PJ,Suttle CA

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A key difference that distinguishes viral infections from protein immunizations is the recognition of viral nucleic acids by cytosolic pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). Insights into the functions of cytosolic PRRs such as the RNA-sensing Rig-I-like receptors (RLRs) in the instruction of adaptive immunity are ther...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： O'Ketch M,Williams S,Larson C,Uhrlaub JL,Wong R,Hall B,Deshpande NR,Schenten D

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Type III secretion systems (T3SS) are nano-syringes used by a wide range of Gram-negative pathogens to promote infection by directly injecting effector proteins into targeted host cells. Translocation of effectors is triggered by host-cell contact and requires assembly of a pore in the host-cell plasma membrane, which...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Armentrout EI,Rietsch A

更新日期：2016-03-29 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：:Migrating cells are guided in complex environments mainly by chemotaxis or structural cues presented by the surrounding tissue. During transmission of malaria, parasite motility in the skin is important for Plasmodium sporozoites to reach the blood circulation. Here we show that sporozoite migration varies in differen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hellmann JK,Münter S,Kudryashev M,Schulz S,Heiss K,Müller AK,Matuschewski K,Spatz JP,Schwarz US,Frischknecht F

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect immune systems can recognize specific pathogens and prime offspring immunity. High specificity of immune priming can be achieved when insect females transfer immune elicitors into developing oocytes. The molecular mechanism behind this transfer has been a mystery. Here, we establish that the egg-yolk protein vi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Salmela H,Amdam GV,Freitak D

更新日期：2015-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular, gram-negative bacterium Chlamydophila pneumoniae (Cpn) has impact as a human pathogen. Little is known about changes in the Cpn transcriptome during its biphasic developmental cycle (the acute infection) and persistence. The latter stage has been linked to chronic diseases. To analyze Cpn C...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mäurer AP,Mehlitz A,Mollenkopf HJ,Meyer TF

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain pathogens deliver effectors into plant cells to modify host protein targets and thereby suppress immunity. These target modifications can be detected by intracellular immune receptors, or Resistance (R) proteins, that trigger strong immune responses including localized host cell death. The accelerated cell dea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Palma K,Thorgrimsen S,Malinovsky FG,Fiil BK,Nielsen HB,Brodersen P,Hofius D,Petersen M,Mundy J

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) composed of the receptor binding domain gp120 and the fusion protein subunit gp41 catalyzes virus entry and is a major target for therapeutic intervention and for neutralizing antibodies. Env interactions with cellular receptors trigger refolding of gp41, which induces close appos...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Buzon V,Natrajan G,Schibli D,Campelo F,Kozlov MM,Weissenhorn W

更新日期：2010-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The innate immune system is the first line of host defense against invading organisms. Thus, pathogens have developed virulence mechanisms to evade the innate immune system. Here, we report a novel means for inhibition of neutrophil recruitment by Group A Streptococcus (GAS). Deletion of the secreted esterase gene (de...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Liu M,Zhu H,Li J,Garcia CC,Feng W,Kirpotina LN,Hilmer J,Tavares LP,Layton AW,Quinn MT,Bothner B,Teixeira MM,Lei B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental visceral leishmaniasis (VL) represents an exquisite model to study CD8(+) T cell responses in a context of chronic inflammation and antigen persistence, since it is characterized by chronic infection in the spleen and CD8(+) T cells are required for the development of protective immunity. However, antigen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Joshi T,Rodriguez S,Perovic V,Cockburn IA,Stäger S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00