An APE1 inhibitor reveals critical roles of the redox function of APE1 in KSHV replication and pathogenic phenotypes.

abstract：:The N-terminal domains of the herpesvirus large tegument proteins encode a conserved cysteine protease with ubiquitin- and NEDD8-specific deconjugase activity. The proteins are expressed during the productive virus cycle and are incorporated into infectious virus particles, being delivered to the target cells upon pri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gupta S,Ylä-Anttila P,Callegari S,Tsai MH,Delecluse HJ,Masucci MG

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the infectious prion protein (PrPSc), which is responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has escaped all attempts at elucidation due to its insolubility and propensity to aggregate. PrPSc replicates by converting the non-infectious, cellular prion protei...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vázquez-Fernández E,Vos MR,Afanasyev P,Cebey L,Sevillano AM,Vidal E,Rosa I,Renault L,Ramos A,Peters PJ,Fernández JJ,van Heel M,Young HS,Requena JR,Wille H

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006236.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kalam H,Fontana MF,Kumar D

更新日期：2018-01-04 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：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection induces an atypical CD8 T cell response, termed inflationary, that is characterised by accumulation and maintenance of high numbers of effector memory like cells in circulation and peripheral tissues-a feature being successfully harnessed for vaccine purposes. Although stability of this...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

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

更新日期：2018-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell division predominantly occurs by a highly conserved process, termed binary fission, that requires the bacterial homologue of tubulin, FtsZ. Other mechanisms of bacterial cell division that are independent of FtsZ are rare. Although the obligate intracellular human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis, the lea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Abdelrahman Y,Ouellette SP,Belland RJ,Cox JV

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infections impose major stress on the host cell. In response, stress pathways can rapidly deploy defence mechanisms by shutting off the protein synthesis machinery and triggering the accumulation of mRNAs into stress granules to limit the use of energy and nutrients. Because this threatens viral gene expression,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brocard M,Iadevaia V,Klein P,Hall B,Lewis G,Lu J,Burke J,Willcocks MM,Parker R,Goodfellow IG,Ruggieri A,Locker N

更新日期：2020-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The macrophage is the primary host cell for the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum during mammalian infections, yet little is known about fungal genes required for intracellular replication in the host. Since the ability to scavenge iron from the host is important for the virulence of most pathogens, we investigat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hwang LH,Mayfield JA,Rine J,Sil A

更新日期：2008-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 200 million people have, and another 600 million are at risk of contracting, schistosomiasis, one of the major neglected tropical diseases. Transmission of this infection, which is caused by helminth parasites of the genus Schistosoma, depends upon the release of parasite eggs from the human host. However, approx...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Freitas TC,Jung E,Pearce EJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida bloodstream infection, i.e. candidemia, is the most frequently encountered life-threatening fungal infection worldwide, with mortality rates up to almost 50%. In the majority of candidemia cases, Candida albicans is responsible. Worryingly, a global increase in the number of patients who are susceptible to inf...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Vries DH,Matzaraki V,Bakker OB,Brugge H,Westra HJ,Netea MG,Franke L,Kumar V,van der Wijst MGP

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:RIG-I-Like Receptors (RLRs) sense cytosolic viral RNA to transiently activate type I IFN production. Here, we report that a type I IFN inducible DExD/H helicase, DDX24, exerts a negative-regulatory effect on RLR function. Expression of DDX24 specifically suppressed RLR activity, while DDX24 loss, which caused embryoni...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ma Z,Moore R,Xu X,Barber GN

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open reading frame (ORF) 45 of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a tegument protein. A genetic analysis with a null mutant suggested a possible role for this protein in the events leading to viral egress. In this study, ORF45 was found to interact with KIF3A, a kinesin-2 motor protein that transports c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sathish N,Zhu FX,Yuan Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Caspase-dependent cleavage of antigens associated with apoptotic cells plays a prominent role in the generation of CD8⁺ T cell responses in various infectious diseases. We found that the emergence of a large population of autoreactive CD8⁺ T effector cells specific for apoptotic T cell-associated self-epitopes exceeds...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Franceschini D,Del Porto P,Piconese S,Trella E,Accapezzato D,Paroli M,Morrone S,Piccolella E,Spada E,Mele A,Sidney J,Sette A,Barnaba V

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria that live in the environment have evolved pathways specialized to defend against eukaryotic organisms or other bacteria. In this manuscript, we systematically examined the role of the five type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) of Burkholderia thailandensis (B. thai) in eukaryotic and bacterial cell interactions. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schwarz S,West TE,Boyer F,Chiang WC,Carl MA,Hood RD,Rohmer L,Tolker-Nielsen T,Skerrett SJ,Mougous JD

更新日期：2010-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent origin and great evolutionary potential of HIV imply that the virulence of the virus might still be changing, which could greatly affect the future of the pandemic. However, previous studies of time trends of HIV virulence have yielded conflicting results. Here we used an established methodology to assess t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Müller V,Maggiolo F,Suter F,Ladisa N,De Luca A,Antinori A,Sighinolfi L,Quiros-Roldan E,Carosi G,Torti C

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:HIV infection induces phenotypic and functional changes to CD8+ T cells defined by the coordinated upregulation of a series of negative checkpoint receptors that eventually result in T cell exhaustion and failure to control viral replication. We report that effector CD8+ T cells during HIV infection in blood and SIV i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chew GM,Fujita T,Webb GM,Burwitz BJ,Wu HL,Reed JS,Hammond KB,Clayton KL,Ishii N,Abdel-Mohsen M,Liegler T,Mitchell BI,Hecht FM,Ostrowski M,Shikuma CM,Hansen SG,Maurer M,Korman AJ,Deeks SG,Sacha JB,Ndhlovu LC

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut dysbiosis associated with intestinal inflammation is characterized by the blooming of particular bacteria such as adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC). However, the precise mechanisms by which AIEC impact on colitis remain largely unknown. Here we show that antibiotic-induced dysbiosis worsened chemically-induced coli...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ohno M,Hasegawa M,Hayashi A,Caballero-Flores G,Alteri CJ,Lawley TD,Kamada N,Núñez G,Inohara N

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A pandemic-capable influenza virus requires a hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein that is immunologically unseen by most people and is capable of supporting replication and transmission in humans. HA stabilization has been linked to 2009 pH1N1 pandemic potential in humans and H5N1 airborne transmissibility in the ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Russier M,Yang G,Marinova-Petkova A,Vogel P,Kaplan BS,Webby RJ,Russell CJ

更新日期：2017-03-10 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.1005698.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ersching J,Basso AS,Calich VL,Bortoluci KR,Rodrigues MM

更新日期：2016-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of host tissues by Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis requires an unusual family of staphylococcal adhesive proteins that contain long stretches of serine-aspartate dipeptide-repeats (SDR). The prototype member of this family is clumping factor A (ClfA), a key virulence factor that mediates adhesion to...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hazenbos WL,Kajihara KK,Vandlen R,Morisaki JH,Lehar SM,Kwakkenbos MJ,Beaumont T,Bakker AQ,Phung Q,Swem LR,Ramakrishnan S,Kim J,Xu M,Shah IM,Diep BA,Sai T,Sebrell A,Khalfin Y,Oh A,Koth C,Lin SJ,Lee BC,Strandh M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is critical for controlling pathogens, but also responsible for symptoms of infectious diseases. IL-27 is an important regulator of inflammation and can limit development of IFNγ-producing Tbet+ CD4+ T (Th1) cells. IL-27 is thought to do this by stimulating IL-10 production by CD4+ T cells, but the underl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Montes de Oca M,de Labastida Rivera F,Winterford C,Frame TCM,Ng SS,Amante FH,Edwards CL,Bukali L,Wang Y,Uzonna JE,Kuns RD,Zhang P,Kabat A,Klein Geltink RI,Pearce EJ,Hill GR,Engwerda CR

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A fatal human case of Duvenhage virus (DUVV) infection in a Dutch traveller who had returned from Kenya was reported in 2007. She exhibited classical symptoms of rabies encephalitis with distinct pathological findings. In the present study we describe the isolation and characterization of DUVV in vitro and its passage...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Koraka P,Martina BE,Roose JM,van Thiel PP,van Amerongen G,Kuiken T,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus (EBOV) is a highly pathogenic filovirus that causes hemorrhagic fever in humans and animals. Currently, how EBOV fuses its envelope membrane within an endosomal membrane to cause infection is poorly understood. We successfully measure cell-cell fusion mediated by the EBOV fusion protein, GP, assayed by the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Markosyan RM,Miao C,Zheng YM,Melikyan GB,Liu SL,Cohen FS

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms that help promote protective immune responses to pathogens is a major challenge in biomedical research and an important goal for the design of innovative therapeutic or vaccination strategies. While natural killer (NK) cells can directly contribute to the control of viral replication, whet...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Robbins SH,Bessou G,Cornillon A,Zucchini N,Rupp B,Ruzsics Z,Sacher T,Tomasello E,Vivier E,Koszinowski UH,Dalod M

更新日期：2007-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Despite numerous studies of the pathogenesis of influenza in humans and animal models the dynamics of infection and transmission in individual hosts remain poorly characterized. In this study, we experimentally modelled transmission using the H1N1pdm09 i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Canini L,Holzer B,Morgan S,Dinie Hemmink J,Clark B,sLoLa Dynamics Consortium.,Woolhouse MEJ,Tchilian E,Charleston B

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) can cause devastating pulmonary infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, yet the precise mechanisms underlying inflammation, recurrent exacerbations and transition from chronic stages to acute infection and septicemia are not known. Bcc bacteria are generally beli...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mesureur J,Feliciano JR,Wagner N,Gomes MC,Zhang L,Blanco-Gonzalez M,van der Vaart M,O'Callaghan D,Meijer AH,Vergunst AC

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to modulating the function and stability of cellular mRNAs, microRNAs can profoundly affect the life cycles of viruses bearing sequence complementary targets, a finding recently exploited to ameliorate toxicities of vaccines and oncolytic viruses. To elucidate the mechanisms underlying microRNA-mediated an...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kelly EJ,Hadac EM,Cullen BR,Russell SJ

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00