Crystal Structure of the Human Cytomegalovirus Glycoprotein B.

abstract：:Host cells infected with obligate intracellular bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis are profoundly resistant to diverse apoptotic stimuli. The molecular mechanisms underlying the block in apoptotic signaling of infected cells is not well understood. Here we investigated the molecular mechanism by which apoptosis induced vi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rajalingam K,Sharma M,Paland N,Hurwitz R,Thieck O,Oswald M,Machuy N,Rudel T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) induces interferon (IFN) stimulated genes in the liver despite of distinct innate immune evasion mechanisms, suggesting that beyond HCV infected cells other cell types contribute to innate immune activation. Upon coculture with HCV replicating cells, human CD141+ myeloid dendritic cells (DC) pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pfaender S,Grabski E,Detje CN,Riebesehl N,Lienenklaus S,Steinmann E,Kalinke U,Pietschmann T

更新日期：2016-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis (Ft) causes a frequently fatal, acute necrotic pneumonia in humans and animals. Following lethal Ft infection in mice, infiltration of the lungs by predominantly immature myeloid cells and subsequent myeloid cell death drive pathogenesis and host mortality. However, following sub-lethal Ft chall...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Periasamy S,Le HT,Duffy EB,Chin H,Harton JA

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic chronic diarrhea (ICD) is a leading cause of morbidity amongst rhesus monkeys kept in captivity. Here, we show that exposure of affected animals to the whipworm Trichuris trichiura led to clinical improvement in fecal consistency, accompanied by weight gain, in four out of the five treated monkeys. By flow ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Broadhurst MJ,Ardeshir A,Kanwar B,Mirpuri J,Gundra UM,Leung JM,Wiens KE,Vujkovic-Cvijin I,Kim CC,Yarovinsky F,Lerche NW,McCune JM,Loke P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV capsid self-assembles a protective conical shell that simultaneously prevents host sensing whilst permitting the import of nucleotides to drive DNA synthesis. This is accomplished through the construction of dynamic, highly charged pores at the centre of each capsid multimer. The clustering of charges required...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Renner N,Mallery DL,Faysal KMR,Peng W,Jacques DA,Böcking T,James LC

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded protein response (UPR) in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) constitutes a critical component of host innate immunity against microbial infections. In this report, we show that porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) utilizes the UPR machinery for its own benefit. We provide evidence that ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gao P,Chai Y,Song J,Liu T,Chen P,Zhou L,Ge X,Guo X,Han J,Yang H

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The opa genes of the Gram negative bacterium Neisseria meningitidis encode Opacity-associated outer membrane proteins whose role is to promote adhesion to the human host tissue during colonisation and invasion. Each meningococcus contains 3-4 opa loci, each of which may be occupied by one of a large number of alleles....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Callaghan MJ,Buckee CO,Jolley KA,Kriz P,Maiden MC,Gupta S

更新日期：2008-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:TIA-1 positive stress granules (SG) represent the storage sites of stalled mRNAs and are often associated with the cellular antiviral response. In this report, we provide evidence that Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) overcomes the host antiviral response by inhibition of SG formation via a viral lytic p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sharma NR,Majerciak V,Kruhlak MJ,Zheng ZM

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) is a human pathogen that causes acute and chronic pediatric diarrhea. The hallmark of EPEC infection is the formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions in the intestinal epithelium. Formation of A/E lesions is mediated by genes located on the pathogenicity island locus of enterocy...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cepeda-Molero M,Berger CN,Walsham ADS,Ellis SJ,Wemyss-Holden S,Schüller S,Frankel G,Fernández LÁ

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), a mosquito-borne RNA virus, is one of the most acutely virulent viruses endemic to the Americas, causing between 30% and 70% mortality in symptomatic human cases. A major factor in the virulence of EEEV is the presence of four binding sites for the hematopoietic cell-specific ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Trobaugh DW,Sun C,Bhalla N,Gardner CL,Dunn MD,Klimstra WB

更新日期：2019-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007696.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dewan KK,Taylor-Mulneix DL,Campos LL,Skarlupka AL,Wagner SM,Ryman VE,Gestal MC,Ma L,Blas-Machado U,Faddis BT,Harvill ET

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the several new antimalarials discovered over the past decade are at least three clinical candidate drugs, each with a distinct chemical structure, that disrupt Na+ homeostasis resulting in a rapid increase in intracellular Na+ concentration ([Na+]i) within the erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum. At pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Das S,Bhatanagar S,Morrisey JM,Daly TM,Burns JM Jr,Coppens I,Vaidya AB

更新日期：2016-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae, the fungus causing rice blast disease, should contend with host innate immunity to develop invasive hyphae (IH) within living host cells. However, molecular strategies to establish the biotrophic interactions are largely unknown. Here, we report the biological function of a M. oryzae-specific gene,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nishimura T,Mochizuki S,Ishii-Minami N,Fujisawa Y,Kawahara Y,Yoshida Y,Okada K,Ando S,Matsumura H,Terauchi R,Minami E,Nishizawa Y

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lytic replication proceeds through an ordered cascade of gene expression that integrates lytic DNA amplification and late gene transcription. We and others previously demonstrated that 6 EBV proteins that have orthologs in β- and γ-, but not in α-herpesviruses, mediate late gene transcription ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Djavadian R,Hayes M,Johannsen E

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the role of myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) in the outcome of SIV infection by comparing and contrasting their frequency, mobilization, phenotype, cytokine production and apoptosis in pathogenic (pigtailed macaques, PTMs), nonpathogenic (African green monkeys, AGMs) and controlled (rhesus macaques, RMs) SIV...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wijewardana V,Kristoff J,Xu C,Ma D,Haret-Richter G,Stock JL,Policicchio BB,Mobley AD,Nusbaum R,Aamer H,Trichel A,Ribeiro RM,Apetrei C,Pandrea I

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial infection leads to activation of the RIG-I/MAVS/TBK1 RNA sensing pathway in macrophages but the consequences of this activation remains poorly defined. In this study, we determined that activation of this RNA sensing pathway stimulates ICAM-1 expression in M.avium-infected macrophage through the inhibiti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cheng Y,Kiene NJ,Tatarian A,Eix EF,Schorey JS

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) is absent from humans but encoded in the Plasmodium falciparum genome, suggesting that PEPC has a parasite-specific function. To investigate its importance in P. falciparum, we generated a pepc null mutant (D10(Δpepc) ), which was only achievable when malate, a reduction product o...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Storm J,Sethia S,Blackburn GJ,Chokkathukalam A,Watson DG,Breitling R,Coombs GH,Müller S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is an important nosocomial pathogen that accounts for up to 20 percent of infections in intensive care units worldwide. Furthermore, A. baumannii strains have emerged that are resistant to all available antimicrobials. These facts highlight the dire need for new therapeutic strategies to combat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hood MI,Mortensen BL,Moore JL,Zhang Y,Kehl-Fie TE,Sugitani N,Chazin WJ,Caprioli RM,Skaar EP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of virus infection is mediated in part by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) Class Ia presentation of viral peptides to conventional CD8 T cells. Although important, the absolute requirement for MHC Class Ia-dependent CD8 T cells for control of chronic virus infection has not been formally demonstrated. We...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Braaten DC,McClellan JS,Messaoudi I,Tibbetts SA,McClellan KB,Nikolich-Zugich J,Virgin HW

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia suppress neutrophil responses by using a type 3 secretion system (T3SS) to inject 6-7 Yersinia effector proteins (Yops) effectors into their cytoplasm. YopH is a tyrosine phosphatase that causes dephosphorylation of the adaptor protein SKAP2, among other targets in neutrophils. SKAP2 functions in reactive oxy...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shaban L,Nguyen GT,Mecsas-Faxon BD,Swanson KD,Tan S,Mecsas J

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin serotype C (BoNT/C) is a neuroparalytic toxin associated with outbreaks of animal botulism, particularly in birds, and is the only BoNT known to cleave two different SNARE proteins, SNAP-25 and syntaxin. BoNT/C was shown to be a good substitute for BoNT/A1 in human dystonia therapy because of its ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zanetti G,Sikorra S,Rummel A,Krez N,Duregotti E,Negro S,Henke T,Rossetto O,Binz T,Pirazzini M

更新日期：2017-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The inability of sodium antimony gluconate (SAG)-unresponsive kala-azar patients to clear Leishmania donovani (LD) infection despite SAG therapy is partly due to an ill-defined immune-dysfunction. Since dendritic cells (DCs) typically initiate anti-leishmanial immunity, a role for DCs in aberrant LD clearance was inve...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Haldar AK,Yadav V,Singhal E,Bisht KK,Singh A,Bhaumik S,Basu R,Sen P,Roy S

更新日期：2010-05-20 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：:The cytidine deaminases APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F exert anti-HIV-1 activity that is countered by the HIV-1 vif protein. Based on potential transcription factor binding sites in their putative promoters, we hypothesized that expression of APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F would vary with T helper lymphocyte differentiation. Naive CD4+...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vetter ML,Johnson ME,Antons AK,Unutmaz D,D'Aquila RT

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:The prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in pathogenic bacteria is a major challenge to treating many infectious diseases. The spread of these genes is driven by the strong selection imposed by the use of antibacterial drugs. However, in the absence of drug selection, antibiotic resistance genes impose a fitness ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Albarracín Orio AG,Piñas GE,Cortes PR,Cian MB,Echenique J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant parasitic nematodes (PPNs) seriously threaten global food security. Conventionally an integrated approach to PPN management has relied heavily on carbamate, organophosphate and fumigant nematicides which are now being withdrawn over environmental health and safety concerns. This progressive withdrawal has left a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Warnock ND,Wilson L,Patten C,Fleming CC,Maule AG,Dalzell JJ

更新日期：2017-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the hallmarks of adaptive immunity is the development of a long-term pathogen specific memory response. While persistent memory T cells certainly impact the immune response during a secondary challenge, their role in unrelated infections is less clear. To address this issue, we utilized lymphocytic choriomening...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crosby EJ,Goldschmidt MH,Wherry EJ,Scott P

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006120.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kinosada H,Yasunaga JI,Shimura K,Miyazato P,Onishi C,Iyoda T,Inaba K,Matsuoka M

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic nematodes infect over 1 billion people worldwide and cause some of the most common neglected tropical diseases. Despite their prevalence, our understanding of the biology of parasitic nematodes has been limited by the lack of tools for genetic intervention. In particular, it has not yet been possible to gene...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gang SS,Castelletto ML,Bryant AS,Yang E,Mancuso N,Lopez JB,Pellegrini M,Hallem EA

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00