Systematic Structural Analyses of Attachment Organelle in Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

abstract：:APE1 is a multifunctional protein with a DNA base excision repair function in its C-terminal domain and a redox activity in its N-terminal domain. The redox function of APE1 converts certain transcription factors from inactive oxidized to active reduced forms. Given that among the APE1-regulated transcription factors ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhong C,Xu M,Wang Y,Xu J,Yuan Y

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Vibrio cholerae type VI secretion system (T6SS) assembles as a molecular syringe that injects toxic protein effectors into both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. We previously reported that the V. cholerae O37 serogroup strain V52 maintains a constitutively active T6SS to kill other Gram-negative bacteria while be...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Miyata ST,Unterweger D,Rudko SP,Pukatzki S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA modification plays an important role in modulating host-pathogen interaction. Flavivirus NS5 protein encodes N-7 and 2'-O methyltransferase activities that are required for the formation of 5' type I cap (m(7)GpppAm) of viral RNA genome. Here we reported, for the first time, that flavivirus NS5 has a novel interna...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dong H,Chang DC,Hua MH,Lim SP,Chionh YH,Hia F,Lee YH,Kukkaro P,Lok SM,Dedon PC,Shi PY

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Reactivation of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is important for persistent infection in the host as well as viral oncogenesis. The replication and transcription activator (RTA) encoded by KSHV ORF50 plays a central role in the switch from viral latency to lytic replication. Given that RTA is a transcri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wei X,Bai L,Dong L,Liu H,Xing P,Zhou Z,Wu S,Lan K

更新日期：2019-11-21 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：: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

abstract：:The binding of human complement inhibitors to vaccine antigens in vivo could diminish their immunogenicity. A meningococcal ligand for the complement down-regulator, factor H (fH), is fH-binding protein (fHbp), which is specific for human fH. Vaccines containing recombinant fHbp or native outer membrane vesicles (NOMV...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Beernink PT,Shaughnessy J,Pajon R,Braga EM,Ram S,Granoff DM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical aspects of HIV-1 infection occur in mucosal tissues, particularly in the gut, which contains large numbers of HIV-1 target cells that are depleted early in infection. We used electron tomography (ET) to image HIV-1 in gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) of HIV-1-infected humanized mice, the first three-dime...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ladinsky MS,Kieffer C,Olson G,Deruaz M,Vrbanac V,Tager AM,Kwon DS,Bjorkman PJ

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of the vascular system by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) occurs during bacterial dissemination in the body or in blood-borne infections. Type 3 secretion system (T3SS) toxins from Pa induce a massive retraction when injected into endothelial cells. Here, we addressed the role of type 2 secretion system (T2SS) e...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Golovkine G,Faudry E,Bouillot S,Voulhoux R,Attrée I,Huber P

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons (IFNs) are a group of cytokines with a well-established antiviral function. They can be induced by viral infection, are secreted and bind to specific receptors on the same or neighbouring cells to activate the expression of hundreds of IFN stimulated genes (ISGs) with antiviral function. Type I IFN has bee...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crotta S,Davidson S,Mahlakoiv T,Desmet CJ,Buckwalter MR,Albert ML,Staeheli P,Wack A

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands are being considered as adjuvants for the induction of antigen-specific immune responses, as in the design of vaccines. Polyriboinosinic-polyribocytoidylic acid (poly I:C), a synthetic double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), is recognized by TLR3 and other intracellular receptors. Poly ICLC is a ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Stahl-Hennig C,Eisenblätter M,Jasny E,Rzehak T,Tenner-Racz K,Trumpfheller C,Salazar AM,Uberla K,Nieto K,Kleinschmidt J,Schulte R,Gissmann L,Müller M,Sacher A,Racz P,Steinman RM,Uguccioni M,Ignatius R

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary role of cytoplasmic viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is viral genome replication in the cellular cytoplasm. However, picornaviral RdRp denoted 3D polymerase (3D(pol)) also enters the host nucleus, where its function remains unclear. In this study, we describe a novel mechanism of viral attack in w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Liu YC,Kuo RL,Lin JY,Huang PN,Huang Y,Liu H,Arnold JJ,Chen SJ,Wang RY,Cameron CE,Shih SR

更新日期：2014-06-26 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：:We performed a quantitative analysis of the HLA restriction, antigen and epitope specificity of human pathogen specific responses in healthy individuals infected with M. tuberculosis (Mtb), in a South African cohort as a test case. The results estimate the breadth of T cell responses for the first time in the context ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lindestam Arlehamn CS,McKinney DM,Carpenter C,Paul S,Rozot V,Makgotlho E,Gregg Y,van Rooyen M,Ernst JD,Hatherill M,Hanekom WA,Peters B,Scriba TJ,Sette A

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Spumaretrovirinae, or foamy viruses (FVs) are complex retroviruses that infect many species of monkey and ape. Despite little sequence homology, FV and orthoretroviral Gag proteins perform equivalent functions, including genome packaging, virion assembly, trafficking and membrane targeting. However, there is a pau...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ball NJ,Nicastro G,Dutta M,Pollard DJ,Goldstone DC,Sanz-Ramos M,Ramos A,Müllers E,Stirnnagel K,Stanke N,Lindemann D,Stoye JP,Taylor WR,Rosenthal PB,Taylor IA

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006750.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Patterson Ross Z,Klunk J,Fornaciari G,Giuffra V,Duchêne S,Duggan AT,Poinar D,Douglas MW,Eden JS,Holmes EC,Poinar HN

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic events associated with maintaining redox homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) during infection are poorly understood. Here, we discovered a novel redox switching mechanism by which Mtb WhiB3 under defined oxidizing and reducing conditions differentially modulates the assimilation of propionate...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Singh A,Crossman DK,Mai D,Guidry L,Voskuil MI,Renfrow MB,Steyn AJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized a novel pleiotropic role for CymR, the master regulator of cysteine metabolism. We show here that CymR plays an important role both in stress response and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus. Genes involved in detoxification processes, including oxidative stress response and metal ion homeostasis,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Soutourina O,Dubrac S,Poupel O,Msadek T,Martin-Verstraete I

更新日期：2010-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory T cell inflation is a process in which a subset of cytomegalovirus (CMV) specific CD8 T cells continuously expands mainly during latent infection and establishes a large and stable population of effector memory cells in peripheral tissues. Here we set out to identify in vivo parameters that promote and limit CD...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Baumann NS,Welten SPM,Torti N,Pallmer K,Borsa M,Barnstorf I,Oduro JD,Cicin-Sain L,Oxenius A

更新日期：2019-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of intracellular pathogenic bacteria by members of the nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat containing (NLR) family triggers immune responses against bacterial infection. A major response induced by several Gram-negative bacteria is the activation of caspase-1 via the Nlrc4 inflammasome. Upon ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Suzuki S,Franchi L,He Y,Muñoz-Planillo R,Mimuro H,Suzuki T,Sasakawa C,Núñez G

更新日期：2014-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV Nef acts as an anti-autophagic maturation factor through interaction with beclin-1 (BECN1). We report that exposure of macrophages to infectious or non-infectious purified HIV induces toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) and BECN1 dependent dephosphorylation and nuclear translocation of TFEB and that this correlates with a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Campbell GR,Rawat P,Bruckman RS,Spector SA

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Group IIA secreted phospholipase A2 (hGIIA) is an acute phase protein with bactericidal activity against Gram-positive bacteria. Infection models in hGIIA transgenic mice have suggested the importance of hGIIA as an innate defense mechanism against the human pathogens Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and Group B Stre...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： van Hensbergen VP,Movert E,de Maat V,Lüchtenborg C,Le Breton Y,Lambeau G,Payré C,Henningham A,Nizet V,van Strijp JAG,Brügger B,Carlsson F,McIver KS,van Sorge NM

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Recognition of M. tuberculosis by pattern recognition receptors is crucial for activation of both innate and adaptive immune responses. In the present study, we demonstrate that nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain 2 (NOD2)...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ferwerda G,Girardin SE,Kullberg BJ,Le Bourhis L,de Jong DJ,Langenberg DM,van Crevel R,Adema GJ,Ottenhoff TH,Van der Meer JW,Netea MG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β inhibits hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication although the intracellular effectors involved are not determined. Here, we report that reduction of HBV transcripts by TGF-β is dependent on AID expression, which significantly decreases both HBV transcripts and viral DNA, resulting in inh...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Liang G,Liu G,Kitamura K,Wang Z,Chowdhury S,Monjurul AM,Wakae K,Koura M,Shimadu M,Kinoshita K,Muramatsu M

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetoplast (k), the uniquely packaged mitochondrial DNA of trypanosomatid protists is formed by a catenated network of minicircles and maxicircles that divide and segregate once each cell cycle. Although many proteins involved in kDNA replication and segregation are now known, several key steps in the replication...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Peña-Diaz P,Vancová M,Resl C,Field MC,Lukeš J

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Filariae are parasitic nematodes that are transmitted to their definitive host as third-stage larvae by arthropod vectors like mosquitoes. Filariae cause diseases including: lymphatic filariasis with distressing and disturbing symptoms like elephantiasis; and river blindness. Filarial diseases affect millions of peopl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kashyap SS,Verma S,Voronin D,Lustigman S,Kulke D,Robertson AP,Martin RJ

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to suppress microbial outgrowth, the host sequesters essential nutrients in a process termed nutritional immunity. However, inflammatory responses to bacterial insult can restore nutritional resources. Given that nutrient availability modulates virulence factor production and biofilm formation by other ba...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Szelestey BR,Heimlich DR,Raffel FK,Justice SS,Mason KM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ensure their survival, microbial pathogens have evolved diverse strategies to subvert host immune defenses. The human retrovirus HIV-1 has been proposed to hijack the natural endocytic function of dendritic cells (DCs) to infect interacting CD4 T cells in a process termed trans-infection. Although DCs can be direct...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cavrois M,Neidleman J,Greene WC

更新日期：2008-06-27 00:00:00