A leucine aminopeptidase is involved in kinetoplast DNA segregation in Trypanosoma brucei.

abstract：:Species-dependent variation in proteins that aid or limit virus replication determines the ability of lentiviruses to jump between host species. Identifying and overcoming these differences facilitates the development of animal models for HIV-1, including models based on chimeric SIVs that express HIV-1 envelope (Env)...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Del Prete GQ,Keele BF,Fode J,Thummar K,Swanstrom AE,Rodriguez A,Raymond A,Estes JD,LaBranche CC,Montefiori DC,KewalRamani VN,Lifson JD,Bieniasz PD,Hatziioannou T

更新日期：2017-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies gallolyticus (Sgg) has a strong clinical association with colorectal cancer (CRC) and actively promotes the development of colon tumors. However, the molecular determinants involved in Sgg pathogenicity in the gut are unknown. Bacterial type VII secretion systems (T7SS) mediate pa...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Taylor JC,Gao X,Xu J,Holder M,Petrosino J,Kumar R,Liu W,Höök M,Mackenzie C,Hillhouse A,Brashear W,Nunez MP,Xu Y

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is currently the only approved vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) and is administered in over 150 countries worldwide. Despite its widespread use, the vaccine has a variable protective efficacy of 0-80%, with the lowest efficacy rates in tropical regions where TB is most prevalent. This va...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Price DN,Kusewitt DF,Lino CA,McBride AA,Muttil P

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To cause infections microbes need to evade host defense systems, one of these being the evolutionarily old and important arm of innate immunity, the alternative pathway of complement. It can attack all kinds of targets and is tightly controlled in plasma and on host cells by plasma complement regulator factor H (FH). ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Meri T,Amdahl H,Lehtinen MJ,Hyvärinen S,McDowell JV,Bhattacharjee A,Meri S,Marconi R,Goldman A,Jokiranta TS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) are considered leads for HIV-1 vaccine development and novel therapeutics. Here, we systematically explored the capacity of bnAbs to neutralize HIV-1 prior to and post-CD4 engagement and to block HIV-1 cell-cell transmission. Cell-cell spread is known to ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Reh L,Magnus C,Schanz M,Weber J,Uhr T,Rusert P,Trkola A

更新日期：2015-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA helicases and chaperones are the two major classes of RNA remodeling proteins, which function to remodel RNA structures and/or RNA-protein interactions, and are required for all aspects of RNA metabolism. Although some virus-encoded RNA helicases/chaperones have been predicted or identified, their RNA remodeling a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Xia H,Wang P,Wang GC,Yang J,Sun X,Wu W,Qiu Y,Shu T,Zhao X,Yin L,Qin CF,Hu Y,Zhou X

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:SAMHD1 restricts HIV-1 infection of myeloid-lineage and resting CD4+ T-cells. Most likely this occurs through deoxynucleoside triphosphate triphosphohydrolase activity that reduces cellular dNTP to a level where reverse transcriptase cannot function, although alternative mechanisms have been proposed recently. Here, w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Arnold LH,Groom HC,Kunzelmann S,Schwefel D,Caswell SJ,Ordonez P,Mann MC,Rueschenbaum S,Goldstone DC,Pennell S,Howell SA,Stoye JP,Webb M,Taylor IA,Bishop KN

更新日期：2015-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylated derivatives of phosphatidylinositol (PIPs) are key membrane lipid residues involved in clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME). CME relies on PIP species PI(4,5)P2 to mark endocytic sites at the plasma membrane (PM) associated to clathrin-coated vesicle (CCV) formation. The highly diverged parasitic protist...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cernikova L,Faso C,Hehl AB

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacterial pathogens and symbionts use type III secretion machines to interact with their hosts by injecting bacterial effector proteins into host target cells. A central component of this complex machine is the cytoplasmic sorting platform, which orchestrates the engagement and preparation of type III secreted pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lara-Tejero M,Qin Z,Hu B,Butan C,Liu J,Galán JE

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral late domains are used by many viruses to recruit the cellular endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) to mediate membrane scission during viral budding. Unlike the P(S/T)AP and YPX(1-3)L late domains, which interact directly with the ESCRT proteins Tsg101 and ALIX, the molecular linkage connecti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ziegler CM,Dang L,Eisenhauer P,Kelly JA,King BR,Klaus JP,Manuelyan I,Mattice EB,Shirley DJ,Weir ME,Bruce EA,Ballif BA,Botten J

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 buds form infected cells in an immature, non-infectious form. Maturation into an infectious virion requires proteolytic cleavage of the Gag polyprotein at five positions, leading to a dramatic change in virus morphology. Immature virions contain an incomplete spherical shell where Gag is arranged with the N-term...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Marco A,Müller B,Glass B,Riches JD,Kräusslich HG,Briggs JA

更新日期：2010-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA deaminase APOBEC3G converts cytosines to uracils in retroviral cDNA, which are immortalized as genomic strand G-to-A hypermutations by reverse transcription. A single round of APOBEC3G-dependent mutagenesis can be catastrophic, but evidence suggests that sublethal levels contribute to viral genetic diversity a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Refsland EW,Hultquist JF,Harris RS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecotin is a serine protease inhibitor produced by hundreds of microbial species, including pathogens. Here we show, that ecotin orthologs from Escherichia coli, Yersinia pestis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Leishmania major are potent inhibitors of MASP-1 and MASP-2, the two key activator proteases of the complement lec...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nagy ZA,Szakács D,Boros E,Héja D,Vígh E,Sándor N,Józsi M,Oroszlán G,Dobó J,Gál P,Pál G

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoT induces potent apoptosis in host epithelial cells in a manner that primarily depends on its ADP-ribosyltransferase domain (ADPRT) activity. However, the mechanism underlying ExoT/ADPRT-induced apoptosis remains undetermined. We now report that ExoT/ADPRT dis...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wood S,Goldufsky J,Shafikhani SH

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular parasites, such as Leishmania spp, must acquire suitable carbon sources from the host cell in order to replicate. Here we present evidence that intracellular amastigote stages of Leishmania exploit amino sugars in the phagolysosome of mammalian macrophages as a source of carbon and energy. L. major paras...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Naderer T,Heng J,McConville MJ

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This Pearl article recounts the story of a US corporation, Lennar, the nation's leading homebuilder, an essential function in the US (not allowed to lock down), when faced with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic at the end of February 2020. The culture of the company, which allowed it to proceed safely, ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Goldschmidt-Clermont PJ

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Trypanosoma brucei flagellum is a multifunctional organelle with critical roles in motility, cellular morphogenesis, and cell division. Although motility is thought to be important throughout the trypanosome lifecycle, most studies of flagellum structure and function have been restricted to the procyclic lifecycle...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ralston KS,Hill KL

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA synthesis machinery of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) comprises the genomic RNA encapsidated by the viral nucleocapsid protein (N) and associated with the RNA dependent RNA polymerase, the viral components of which are a large protein (L) and an accessory phosphoprotein (P). The 241 kDa L protein contains al...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tekes G,Rahmeh AA,Whelan SP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In inflammation, pain is regulated by a balance of pro- and analgesic mediators. Analgesic mediators include opioid peptides which are secreted by neutrophils at the site of inflammation, leading to activation of opioid receptors on peripheral sensory neurons. In humans, local opioids and opioid peptides significantly...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rittner HL,Hackel D,Voigt P,Mousa S,Stolz A,Labuz D,Schäfer M,Schaefer M,Stein C,Brack A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular bacteria have evolved mechanisms that promote survival within hostile host environments, often resulting in functional dysregulation and disease. Using the Anaplasma phagocytophilum-infected granulocyte model, we establish a link between host chromatin modifications, defense gene transcription and intrac...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Garcia-Garcia JC,Barat NC,Trembley SJ,Dumler JS

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unprecedented epidemic of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection recently started in countries of the Indian Ocean area, causing an acute and painful syndrome with strong fever, asthenia, skin rash, polyarthritis, and lethal cases of encephalitis. The basis for chikungunya disease and the tropism of CHIKV remain unkno...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sourisseau M,Schilte C,Casartelli N,Trouillet C,Guivel-Benhassine F,Rudnicka D,Sol-Foulon N,Le Roux K,Prevost MC,Fsihi H,Frenkiel MP,Blanchet F,Afonso PV,Ceccaldi PE,Ozden S,Gessain A,Schuffenecker I,Verhasselt B,Zamb

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A facile and efficient method for the precise editing of large viral genomes is required for the selection of attenuated vaccine strains and the construction of gene therapy vectors. The type II prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated (Cas)) RNA-guided nucl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bi Y,Sun L,Gao D,Ding C,Li Z,Li Y,Cun W,Li Q

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice tungro disease is caused by synergistic interaction of an RNA picorna-like virus Rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV) and a DNA pararetrovirus Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV). It is spread by insects owing to an RTSV-encoded transmission factor. RTBV has evolved a ribosome shunt mechanism to initiate translati...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pooggin MM,Rajeswaran R,Schepetilnikov MV,Ryabova LA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous oncogenic virus that induces many cancers. N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) modification regulates many cellular processes. We explored the role of m6A in EBV gene regulation and associated cancers. We have comprehensively defined m6A modification of EBV latent and lytic transcripts. F...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lang F,Singh RK,Pei Y,Zhang S,Sun K,Robertson ES

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellum organelle is an intricate multiprotein assembly best known for its rotational propulsion of bacteria. However, recent studies have expanded our knowledge of other functions in pathogenic contexts, particularly adherence and immune modulation, e.g., for Salmonella enterica, Campylobacter jejuni, Pseudomon...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rossez Y,Wolfson EB,Holmes A,Gally DL,Holden NJ

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:NKT cells play an important role in autoimmune diseases, tumor surveillance, and infectious diseases, providing in most cases protection against infection. NKT cells are reactive to CD1d presented glycolipid antigens. They can modulate immune responses by promoting the secretion of type 1, type 2, or immune regulatory...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Karmakar S,Bhaumik SK,Paul J,De T

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a β-herpesvirus that establishes a lifelong latent or persistent infection. A hallmark of chronic CMV infection is the lifelong persistence of large numbers of virus-specific CD8+ effector/effector memory T cells, a phenomenon called "memory inflation". How the virus continuously stimulates th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Snyder CM,Cho KS,Bonnett EL,Allan JE,Hill AB

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax poses a community health risk due to accidental or intentional aerosol release. Reliable quantitative dose-response analyses are required to estimate the magnitude and timeline of potential consequences and the effect of public health intervention strategies under specific scenarios. Analyses of available data...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Toth DJ,Gundlapalli AV,Schell WA,Bulmahn K,Walton TE,Woods CW,Coghill C,Gallegos F,Samore MH,Adler FR

更新日期：2013-08-01 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