A single mutation in the envelope protein modulates flavivirus antigenicity, stability, and pathogenesis.

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：:Reverse transcriptase (RT) is the target for the majority of anti-HIV-1 drugs. As with all anti-AIDS treatments, continued success of RT inhibitors is persistently disrupted by the occurrence of resistance mutations. To explore latent resistance mechanisms potentially accessible to therapeutically challenged HIV-1 vir...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Galilee M,Alian A

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogenic bacterium Brucella generates a replicative vacuole (rBCV) derived from the endoplasmic reticulum via subversion of the host cell secretory pathway. rBCV biogenesis requires the expression of the Type IV secretion system (T4SS) VirB, which is thought to translocate effector proteins that mo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Myeni S,Child R,Ng TW,Kupko JJ 3rd,Wehrly TD,Porcella SF,Knodler LA,Celli J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As humans age, they experience a progressive loss of thymic function and a corresponding shift in the makeup of the circulating CD8+ T cell population from naïve to memory phenotype. These alterations are believed to result in impaired CD8+ T cell responses in older individuals; however, evidence that these global cha...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lelic A,Verschoor CP,Ventresca M,Parsons R,Evelegh C,Bowdish D,Betts MR,Loeb MB,Bramson JL

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Lactoferrin binding protein B (LbpB) is a bi-lobed outer membrane-bound lipoprotein that comprises part of the lactoferrin (Lf) receptor complex in Neisseria meningitidis and other Gram-negative pathogens. Recent studies have demonstrated that LbpB plays a role in protecting the bacteria from cationic antimicrobial pe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ostan NK,Yu RH,Ng D,Lai CC,Pogoutse AK,Sarpe V,Hepburn M,Sheff J,Raval S,Schriemer DC,Moraes TF,Schryvers AB

更新日期：2017-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Both iron starvation and excess are detrimental to cellular life, especially for animal and plant pathogens since they always live in iron-limited environments produced by host immune responses. However, how organisms sense and respond to iron is incompletely understood. Herein, we reveal that in the phytopathogenic b...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang L,Pan Y,Yuan ZH,Zhang H,Peng BY,Wang FF,Qian W

更新日期：2016-12-30 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：: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：:The primary reservoir for HIV is within memory CD4+ T cells residing within tissues, yet the features that make some of these cells more susceptible than others to infection by HIV is not well understood. Recent studies demonstrated that CCR5-tropic HIV-1 efficiently enters tissue-derived memory CD4+ T cells expressin...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hsiao F,Frouard J,Gramatica A,Xie G,Telwatte S,Lee GQ,Roychoudhury P,Schwarzer R,Luo X,Yukl SA,Lee S,Hoh R,Deeks SG,Jones RB,Cavrois M,Greene WC,Roan NR

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferons (IFN) are important for antiviral responses. Melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA-5) and retinoic acid-induced gene I (RIG-I) proteins detect cytosolic double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) or 5'-triphosphate (5'-ppp) RNA and mediate IFN production. Cytosolic 5'-ppp RNA and dsRNA are generated duri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nikonov A,Mölder T,Sikut R,Kiiver K,Männik A,Toots U,Lulla A,Lulla V,Utt A,Merits A,Ustav M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the importance of humoral immunity to malaria has been established, factors that control antibody production are poorly understood. Follicular helper T cells (Tfh cells) are pivotal for generating high-affinity, long-lived antibody responses. While it has been proposed that expansion of antigen-specific Tfh c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Figueiredo MM,Costa PAC,Diniz SQ,Henriques PM,Kano FS,Tada MS,Pereira DB,Soares IS,Martins-Filho OA,Jankovic D,Gazzinelli RT,Antonelli LRDV

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Toll-like receptors (TLRs) expressed by dendritic cells recognize nucleic acids derived from pathogens and play an important role in the immune responses against the influenza virus (IAV), a single-stranded RNA sensed by different receptors including TLR7. However, the importance of TLR7 processing in th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Maschalidi S,Hässler S,Blanc F,Sepulveda FE,Tohme M,Chignard M,van Endert P,Si-Tahar M,Descamps D,Manoury B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a widespread pathogen, infection with which can cause severe disease for immunocompromised individuals. The complex changes wrought on the host's immune system during both productive and latent HCMV infection are well known. Infected cells are masked and manipulated and uninfected immun...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zischke J,Mamareli P,Pokoyski C,Gabaev I,Buyny S,Jacobs R,Falk CS,Lochner M,Sparwasser T,Schulz TF,Kay-Fedorov PC

更新日期：2017-06-19 00:00:00

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：:RsaE is a conserved small regulatory RNA (sRNA) which was previously reported to represent a riboregulator of central carbon flow and other metabolic pathways in Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis. Here we show that RsaE contributes to extracellular (e)DNA release and biofilm-matrix switching towards polysacc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schoenfelder SMK,Lange C,Prakash SA,Marincola G,Lerch MF,Wencker FDR,Förstner KU,Sharma CM,Ziebuhr W

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004331.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： PLOS Pathogens Staff.

更新日期：2015-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are unorthodox infectious agents that replicate by templating misfolded conformations of a host-encoded glycoprotein, collectively termed PrPSc. Prion diseases are invariably fatal and currently incurable, but oral drugs that can prolong incubation times in prion-infected mice have been developed. Here, we test...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Burke CM,Mark KMK,Kun J,Beauchemin KS,Supattapone S

更新日期：2020-05-18 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：:Elucidating the mechanism of action of trypanocidal compounds is an important step in the development of more efficient drugs against Trypanosoma brucei. In a screening approach using an RNAi library in T. brucei bloodstream forms, we identified a member of the mitochondrial carrier family, TbMCP14, as a prime candida...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Macêdo JP,Schumann Burkard G,Niemann M,Barrett MP,Vial H,Mäser P,Roditi I,Schneider A,Bütikofer P

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a major threat to swine health worldwide and is considered the most significant viral disease in the swine industry today. In past years, studies on the entry of the virus into its host cell have led to the identification of a number of essential virus...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Van Breedam W,Van Gorp H,Zhang JQ,Crocker PR,Delputte PL,Nauwynck HJ

更新日期：2010-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus disease afflicts both human and animal populations and is caused by four ebolaviruses. These different ebolaviruses may have distinct reservoir hosts and ecological contexts that determine how, where, and when different ebolavirus spillover events occur. Understanding these virus-specific relationships is ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Judson SD,Fischer R,Judson A,Munster VJ

更新日期：2016-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-like particles (VLPs) have not been observed in Caenorhabditis germ cells, although nematode genomes contain low numbers of retrotransposon and retroviral sequences. We used electron microscopy to search for VLPs in various wild strains of Caenorhabditis, and observed very rare candidate VLPs in some strains, in...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dennis S,Sheth U,Feldman JL,English KA,Priess JR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepadnavirus covalently closed circular (ccc) DNA is the bona fide viral transcription template, which plays a pivotal role in viral infection and persistence. Upon infection, the non-replicative cccDNA is converted from the incoming and de novo synthesized viral genomic relaxed circular (rc) DNA, presumably through e...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Long Q,Yan R,Hu J,Cai D,Mitra B,Kim ES,Marchetti A,Zhang H,Wang S,Liu Y,Huang A,Guo H

更新日期：2017-12-29 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：:Betanodaviruses cause massive mortality in marine fish species with viral nervous necrosis. The structure of a T = 3 Grouper nervous necrosis virus-like particle (GNNV-LP) is determined by the ab initio method with non-crystallographic symmetry averaging at 3.6 Å resolution. Each capsid protein (CP) shows three major ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen NC,Yoshimura M,Guan HH,Wang TY,Misumi Y,Lin CC,Chuankhayan P,Nakagawa A,Chan SI,Tsukihara T,Chen TY,Chen CJ

更新日期：2015-10-22 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：: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：:RNA silencing is an evolutionarily conserved sequence-specific gene-inactivation system that also functions as an antiviral mechanism in higher plants and insects. To overcome antiviral RNA silencing, viruses express silencing-suppressor proteins. These viral proteins can target one or more key points in the silencing...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Giner A,Lakatos L,García-Chapa M,López-Moya JJ,Burgyán J

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The SUPPRESSOR OF rps4-RLD1 (SRFR1) gene was identified based on enhanced AvrRps4-triggered resistance in the naturally susceptible Arabidopsis accession RLD. No other phenotypic effects were recorded, and the extent of SRFR1 involvement in regulating effector-triggered immunity was unknown. Here we show that mutation...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kim SH,Gao F,Bhattacharjee S,Adiasor JA,Nam JC,Gassmann W

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00