Botulinum neurotoxin C mutants reveal different effects of syntaxin or SNAP-25 proteolysis on neuromuscular transmission.

abstract：:Cellular responses to Plasmodium falciparum parasites, in particular interferon-gamma (IFNγ) production, play an important role in anti-malarial immunity. However, clinical immunity to malaria develops slowly amongst naturally exposed populations, the dynamics of cellular responses in relation to exposure are difficul...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Teirlinck AC,McCall MB,Roestenberg M,Scholzen A,Woestenenk R,de Mast Q,van der Ven AJ,Hermsen CC,Luty AJ,Sauerwein RW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors determining the functional avidity and its relationship with the broad heterogeneity of antiviral T cell responses remain partially understood. We investigated HIV-specific CD8 T cell responses in 85 patients with primary HIV infection (PHI) or chronic (progressive and non-progressive) infection. The funct...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Viganò S,Bellutti Enders F,Miconnet I,Cellerai C,Savoye AL,Rozot V,Perreau M,Faouzi M,Ohmiti K,Cavassini M,Bart PA,Pantaleo G,Harari A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a Delta-proteobacterium that oscillates between free-living growth and predation on Gram-negative bacteria including important pathogens of man, animals and plants. After entering the prey periplasm, killing the prey and replicating inside the prey bdelloplast, several motile B. bacteriov...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hobley L,Fung RK,Lambert C,Harris MA,Dabhi JM,King SS,Basford SM,Uchida K,Till R,Ahmad R,Aizawa S,Gomelsky M,Sockett RE

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Venus kinase receptor (VKR) is a single transmembrane molecule composed of an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain close to that of insulin receptor and an extracellular Venus Flytrap (VFT) structure similar to the ligand binding domain of many class C G protein coupled receptors. This receptor tyrosine kinase (RT...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vanderstraete M,Gouignard N,Cailliau K,Morel M,Hahnel S,Leutner S,Beckmann S,Grevelding CG,Dissous C

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs play an important role in the interplay between bacterial pathogens and host cells, participating as host defense mechanisms, as well as exploited by bacteria to subvert host cellular functions. Here, we show that microRNAs modulate infection by Shigella flexneri, a major causative agent of bacillary dysente...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sunkavalli U,Aguilar C,Silva RJ,Sharan M,Cruz AR,Tawk C,Maudet C,Mano M,Eulalio A

更新日期：2017-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative roles of the endosomal TLR3/7/8 versus the intracellular RNA helicases RIG-I and MDA5 in viral infection is much debated. We investigated the roles of each pattern recognition receptor in rhinovirus infection using primary bronchial epithelial cells. TLR3 was constitutively expressed; however, RIG-I and M...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Slater L,Bartlett NW,Haas JJ,Zhu J,Message SD,Walton RP,Sykes A,Dahdaleh S,Clarke DL,Belvisi MG,Kon OM,Fujita T,Jeffery PK,Johnston SL,Edwards MR

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) lesions are complex mixtures of KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV)-infected spindle and inflammatory cells. In order to survive the host immune responses, KSHV encodes a number of immunomodulatory proteins, including the E3 ubiquitin ligase K5. In exploring the role of this viral protein in monocyt...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Karki R,Lang SM,Means RE

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IFI16 (gamma-interferon-inducible protein 16), a predominantly nuclear protein involved in transcriptional regulation, also functions as an innate immune response DNA sensor and induces the IL-1β and antiviral type-1 interferon-β (IFN-β) cytokines. We have shown that IFI16, in association with BRCA1, functions as a se...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Iqbal J,Ansari MA,Kumar B,Dutta D,Roy A,Chikoti L,Pisano G,Dutta S,Vahedi S,Veettil MV,Chandran B

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The coordinated exit of intracellular pathogens from host cells is a process critical to the success and spread of an infection. While phospholipases have been shown to play important roles in bacteria host cell egress and virulence, their role in the release of intracellular eukaryotic parasites is largely unknown. W...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Burda PC,Roelli MA,Schaffner M,Khan SM,Janse CJ,Heussler VT

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium leprae, an obligate intracellular bacillus, infects Schwann cells (SCs), leading to peripheral nerve damage, the most severe leprosy symptom. In the present study, we revisited the involvement of phenolic glycolipid I (PGL I), an abundant, private, surface M. leprae molecule, in M. leprae-SC interaction ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Díaz Acosta CC,Dias AA,Rosa TLSA,Batista-Silva LR,Rosa PS,Toledo-Pinto TG,Costa FDMR,Lara FA,Rodrigues LS,Mattos KA,Sarno EN,Bozza PT,Guilhot C,de Berrêdo-Pinho M,Pessolani MCV

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that infection with SARS-CoV-2 can result in a wide range of clinical outcomes in humans. An incomplete understanding of immune correlates of protection represents a major barrier to the design of vaccines and therapeutic approaches to prevent infection or limit disease. This deficit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Graham JB,Swarts JL,Leist SR,Schäfer A,Menachery VD,Gralinski LE,Jeng S,Miller DR,Mooney MA,McWeeney SK,Ferris MT,Pardo-Manuel de Villena F,Heise MT,Baric RS,Lund JM

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, transformation and restriction-modification (R-M) systems play potentially antagonistic roles. While the former, proposed as a form of sexuality, relies on internalized foreign DNA to create genetic diversity, the latter degrade foreign DNA to protect from bacteriophage attack. The human pathogen Streptoc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Johnston C,Martin B,Granadel C,Polard P,Claverys JP

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are critical for clearing many viral infections, and protective CTL memory can be induced by vaccination with attenuated viruses and vectors. Non-replicating vaccines are typically potentiated by the addition of adjuvants that enhance humoral responses, however few are capable of ge...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gasper DJ,Neldner B,Plisch EH,Rustom H,Carrow E,Imai H,Kawaoka Y,Suresh M

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a pathogen derives from its facile adaptation to the intracellular milieu of human macrophages. To explore this process, we asked whether adaptation also required interference with the metabolic machinery of the host cell. Temporal profiling of the metabolic flux, in cells ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mehrotra P,Jamwal SV,Saquib N,Sinha N,Siddiqui Z,Manivel V,Chatterjee S,Rao KV

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial type III protein secretion systems inject effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells in order to promote survival and colonization of Gram-negative pathogens and symbionts. Secretion across the bacterial cell envelope and injection into host cells is facilitated by a so-called injectisome. Its small hydrop...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dietsche T,Tesfazgi Mebrhatu M,Brunner MJ,Abrusci P,Yan J,Franz-Wachtel M,Schärfe C,Zilkenat S,Grin I,Galán JE,Kohlbacher O,Lea S,Macek B,Marlovits TC,Robinson CV,Wagner S

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear lamina lines the inner nuclear membrane providing a structural framework for the nucleus. Cellular processes, such as nuclear envelope breakdown during mitosis or nuclear export of large ribonucleoprotein complexes, are functionally linked to the disassembly of the nuclear lamina. In general, lamina disass...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Milbradt J,Hutterer C,Bahsi H,Wagner S,Sonntag E,Horn AH,Kaufer BB,Mori Y,Sticht H,Fossen T,Marschall M

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus replication takes place in the host cell cytoplasm and triggers inflammatory gene expression by poorly characterized mechanisms. To obtain more insight into the signals and molecular events that coordinate global host responses in the nucleus of coronavirus-infected cells, first, transcriptome dynamics was...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Poppe M,Wittig S,Jurida L,Bartkuhn M,Wilhelm J,Müller H,Beuerlein K,Karl N,Bhuju S,Ziebuhr J,Schmitz ML,Kracht M

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Type VI secretion systems (T6SS) are trans-envelope machines dedicated to the secretion of virulence factors into eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells, therefore required for pathogenesis and/or for competition towards neighboring bacteria. The T6SS apparatus resembles the injection device of bacteriophage T4, and is ancho...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Felisberto-Rodrigues C,Durand E,Aschtgen MS,Blangy S,Ortiz-Lombardia M,Douzi B,Cambillau C,Cascales E

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhalation of fungal spores (conidia) occurs commonly and, in specific circumstances, can result in invasive disease. We investigated the murine inflammatory response to conidia of Aspergillus fumigatus, the most common invasive mold in immunocompromised hosts. In contrast to dormant spores, germinating conidia induce...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hohl TM,Van Epps HL,Rivera A,Morgan LA,Chen PL,Feldmesser M,Pamer EG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animal and plant viruses rely on vectors for their transmission from host to host. Grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV), a picorna-like virus from plants, is transmitted specifically by the ectoparasitic nematode Xiphinema index. The icosahedral capsid of GFLV, which consists of 60 identical coat protein subunits (CP),...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schellenberger P,Sauter C,Lorber B,Bron P,Trapani S,Bergdoll M,Marmonier A,Schmitt-Keichinger C,Lemaire O,Demangeat G,Ritzenthaler C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein gp120 is a vaccine immunogen that can signal via several cell surface receptors. To investigate whether receptor biology could influence immune responses to gp120, we studied its interaction with human, monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDDCs) in vi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shan M,Klasse PJ,Banerjee K,Dey AK,Iyer SP,Dionisio R,Charles D,Campbell-Gardener L,Olson WC,Sanders RW,Moore JP

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of liver disease worldwide. The HCV RNA genome is translated into a single polyprotein. Most of the cleavage sites in the non-structural (NS) polyprotein region are processed by the NS3/NS4A serine protease. The vital NS2-NS3 cleavage is catalyzed by the NS2 autopro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Isken O,Langerwisch U,Jirasko V,Rehders D,Redecke L,Ramanathan H,Lindenbach BD,Bartenschlager R,Tautz N

更新日期：2015-03-16 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：: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：:The infectious form of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides stercoralis is a developmentally arrested third-stage larva (L3i), which is morphologically similar to the developmentally arrested dauer larva in the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We hypothesize that the molecular pathways regulating C. elegan...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Stoltzfus JD,Bart SM,Lok JB

更新日期：2014-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) suppress the transcriptional and post-transcriptional expression of genes in plants. Several miRNA families target genes encoding nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR) plant innate immune receptors. The fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici causes vascular wilt disease in tomat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ouyang S,Park G,Atamian HS,Han CS,Stajich JE,Kaloshian I,Borkovich KA

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Astroviruses (AstVs) are positive sense, single-stranded RNA viruses transmitted to a wide range of hosts via the fecal-oral route. The number of AstV-infected animal hosts has rapidly expanded in recent years with many more likely to be discovered because of the advances in viral surveillance and next generation sequ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Karlsson EA,Small CT,Freiden P,Feeroz MM,Matsen FA 4th,San S,Hasan MK,Wang D,Jones-Engel L,Schultz-Cherry S

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the advent of genome-wide small interfering RNA screening, large numbers of cellular cofactors important for viral infection have been discovered at a rapid pace, but the viral targets and the mechanism of action for many of these cofactors remain undefined. One such cofactor is cyclophilin A (CyPA), upon which ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yang F,Robotham JM,Grise H,Frausto S,Madan V,Zayas M,Bartenschlager R,Robinson M,Greenstein AE,Nag A,Logan TM,Bienkiewicz E,Tang H

更新日期：2010-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) is an attenuated double-stranded DNA poxvirus currently developed as a vaccine vector against HIV/AIDS. Profiling of the innate immune responses induced by MVA is essential for the design of vaccine vectors and for anticipating potential adverse interactions between naturally acqui...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Delaloye J,Roger T,Steiner-Tardivel QG,Le Roy D,Knaup Reymond M,Akira S,Petrilli V,Gomez CE,Perdiguero B,Tschopp J,Pantaleo G,Esteban M,Calandra T

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) pathway regulates diverse cellular activities related to cell growth, migration, survival, and vesicular trafficking. It is known that Ebola virus requires endocytosis to establish an infection. However, the cellular signals that mediate this uptake were unknown for Ebola virus as ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Saeed MF,Kolokoltsov AA,Freiberg AN,Holbrook MR,Davey RA

更新日期：2008-08-29 00:00:00