The risk of sustained sexual transmission of Zika is underestimated.

abstract：:Viruses have evolved several strategies to modify cellular processes and evade the immune response in order to successfully infect, replicate, and persist in the host. By utilizing in-silico testing of a transmembrane sequence library derived from virus protein sequences, we have pin-pointed a nine amino-acid motif sh...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cohen T,Cohen SJ,Antonovsky N,Cohen IR,Shai Y

更新日期：2010-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infection of macrophages plays a key role in viral pathogenesis and progression to AIDS. Polyinosine-polycytidylic acid (poly(I:C); a synthetic analog of dsRNA) and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the ligands for Toll-like receptors (TLR) TLR3 and TLR4, respectively, are known to decrease HIV-1 infection in ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Swaminathan G,Rossi F,Sierra LJ,Gupta A,Navas-Martín S,Martín-García J

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:The origin recognition complex (ORC) coordinates a series of events that lead to initiation of DNA strand duplication. As a nuclear double stranded DNA plasmid, the papillomavirus (PV) genome resembles a mini-chromosome in infected cells. To initiate its replication, the viral E2 protein binds to and recruits the E1 D...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： DeSmet M,Kanginakudru S,Rietz A,Wu WH,Roden R,Androphy EJ

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovering novel genes involved in immune evasion and drug resistance in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is of critical importance to global health. Such knowledge may assist in the development of new effective vaccines and in the appropriate use of antimalarial drugs. By performing a full-genome s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kidgell C,Volkman SK,Daily J,Borevitz JO,Plouffe D,Zhou Y,Johnson JR,Le Roch K,Sarr O,Ndir O,Mboup S,Batalov S,Wirth DF,Winzeler EA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is a global health burden and the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea worldwide, causing severe gastrointestinal disease and death. Three well characterised toxins are encoded by this bacterium in two genetic loci, specifically, TcdB (toxin B) and TcdA (toxin A) in the Pathogenicity ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lyon SA,Hutton ML,Rood JI,Cheung JK,Lyras D

更新日期：2016-07-14 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：:Paramyxoviruses are known to replicate in the cytoplasm and bud from the plasma membrane. Matrix is the major structural protein in paramyxoviruses that mediates viral assembly and budding. Curiously, the matrix proteins of a few paramyxoviruses have been found in the nucleus, although the biological function associat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang YE,Park A,Lake M,Pentecost M,Torres B,Yun TE,Wolf MC,Holbrook MR,Freiberg AN,Lee B

更新日期：2010-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease phenotype of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and the molecular/ biological properties of its prion strain, including the host range and the characteristics of BSE-related disorders, have been extensively studied since its discovery in 1986. In recent years, systematic testing of the brains of cattle...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lombardi G,Casalone C,D' Angelo A,Gelmetti D,Torcoli G,Barbieri I,Corona C,Fasoli E,Farinazzo A,Fiorini M,Gelati M,Iulini B,Tagliavini F,Ferrari S,Caramelli M,Monaco S,Capucci L,Zanusso G

更新日期：2008-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Apicomplexans are obligate intracellular parasites that actively penetrate their host cells to create an intracellular niche for replication. Commitment to invasion is thought to be mediated by the rhoptries, specialized apical secretory organelles that inject a protein complex into the host cell to form a tight-junct...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Beck JR,Fung C,Straub KW,Coppens I,Vashisht AA,Wohlschlegel JA,Bradley PJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated protein secretion is required for malaria parasite life cycle progression and transmission between the mammalian host and mosquito vector. During transmission from the host to the vector, exocytosis of highly specialised secretory vesicles, such as osmiophilic bodies, is key to the dissolution of the red blo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kehrer J,Singer M,Lemgruber L,Silva PA,Frischknecht F,Mair GR

更新日期：2016-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear proteins EBNA3A, EBNA3B, and EBNA3C interact with the cell DNA binding protein RBPJ and regulate cell and viral genes. Repression of the CDKN2A tumor suppressor gene products p16(INK4A) and p14(ARF) by EBNA3A and EBNA3C is critical for EBV mediated transformation of resting B lymph...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ohashi M,Holthaus AM,Calderwood MA,Lai CY,Krastins B,Sarracino D,Johannsen E

更新日期：2015-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus (DENV) is the leading cause of mosquito-borne viral illness and death in humans. Like many viruses, DENV has evolved potent mechanisms that abolish the antiviral response within infected cells. Nevertheless, several in vivo studies have demonstrated a key role of the innate immune response in controlling ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Décembre E,Assil S,Hillaire ML,Dejnirattisai W,Mongkolsapaya J,Screaton GR,Davidson AD,Dreux M

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aspergillus fumigatus sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP) SrbA belongs to the basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) family of transcription factors and is crucial for antifungal drug resistance and virulence. The latter phenotype is especially striking, as loss of SrbA results in complete loss of virulence i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chung D,Barker BM,Carey CC,Merriman B,Werner ER,Lechner BE,Dhingra S,Cheng C,Xu W,Blosser SJ,Morohashi K,Mazurie A,Mitchell TK,Haas H,Mitchell AP,Cramer RA

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus (IAV) infection can be severe or even lethal in toddlers, the elderly and patients with certain medical conditions. Infection of apparently healthy individuals nonetheless accounts for many severe disease cases and deaths, suggesting that viruses with increased pathogenicity co-circulate with pandemi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vasilijevic J,Zamarreño N,Oliveros JC,Rodriguez-Frandsen A,Gómez G,Rodriguez G,Pérez-Ruiz M,Rey S,Barba I,Pozo F,Casas I,Nieto A,Falcón A

更新日期：2017-10-12 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：:The continued evolution of bacterial pathogens has major implications for both human and animal disease, but the exchange of genetic material between host-restricted pathogens is rarely considered. Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi) is a host-restricted pathogen of horses that has evolved from the zoonotic p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Holden MT,Heather Z,Paillot R,Steward KF,Webb K,Ainslie F,Jourdan T,Bason NC,Holroyd NE,Mungall K,Quail MA,Sanders M,Simmonds M,Willey D,Brooks K,Aanensen DM,Spratt BG,Jolley KA,Maiden MC,Kehoe M,Chanter N,Bentl

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebolavirus (EBOV), the causative agent of a severe hemorrhagic fever and a biosafety level 4 pathogen, increases its genome coding capacity by producing multiple transcripts encoding for structural and nonstructural glycoproteins from a single gene. This is achieved through RNA editing, during which non-template adeno...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mehedi M,Hoenen T,Robertson S,Ricklefs S,Dolan MA,Taylor T,Falzarano D,Ebihara H,Porcella SF,Feldmann H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amebiasis is caused by the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica (Eh), a potentially fatal disease occurring mainly in developing countries. How Eh interacts with innate host factors in the gut is poorly understood. Eh resides and feed in/on the outer colonic mucus layer and thus share an ecological niche with indi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Leon-Coria A,Kumar M,Moreau F,Chadee K

更新日期：2018-11-30 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：: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：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are specialized phagocytes that internalize exogenous antigens and microbes at peripheral sites, and then migrate to lymphatic organs to display foreign peptides to naïve T cells. There are several examples where DCs have been shown to be more efficient at restricting the intracellular replicatio...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nogueira CV,Lindsten T,Jamieson AM,Case CL,Shin S,Thompson CB,Roy CR

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:The bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis protects its hosts from a range of pathogens by limiting their ability to form infections inside the insect. This "pathogen blocking" could be explained by innate immune priming by the symbiont, competition for host-derived resources between pathogens and Wolbachia, or th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Caragata EP,Rancès E,Hedges LM,Gofton AW,Johnson KN,O'Neill SL,McGraw EA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are 25 auxin response factors (ARFs) in the rice genome, which play critical roles in regulating myriad aspects of plant development, but their role (s) in host antiviral immune defense and the underneath mechanism remain largely unknown. By using the rice-rice dwarf virus (RDV) model system, here we report that...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Qin Q,Li G,Jin L,Huang Y,Wang Y,Wei C,Xu Z,Yang Z,Wang H,Li Y

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen causing a wide spectrum of nosocomial and community-associated infections with high morbidity and mortality. S. aureus generates a large number of virulence factors whose timing and expression levels are precisely tuned by regulatory proteins and RNAs. The aptitude of ba...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Felden B,Vandenesch F,Bouloc P,Romby P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system is an essential component for virulence in many Gram-negative bacteria. Though components of the secretion system apparatus are conserved, its substrates--effector proteins--are not. We have used a novel computational approach to confidently identify new secreted effectors by integrating ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Samudrala R,Heffron F,McDermott JE

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 (NFAT5)/Tonicity enhancer binding protein (TonEBP) is a transcription factor induced by hypertonic stress in the kidney. However, the function of NFAT5 in other organs has rarely been studied, even though it is ubiquitously expressed. Indeed, although NFAT5 was reported to be crit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Qiu Y,Ye X,Zhang HM,Hanson P,Zhao G,Tong L,Xie R,Yang D

更新日期：2017-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies identified prion protein (PrP) mutants which act as dominant negative inhibitors of prion formation through a mechanism hypothesized to require an unidentified species-specific cofactor termed protein X. To study the mechanism of dominant negative inhibition in vitro, we used recombinant PrP(C) molecu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Geoghegan JC,Miller MB,Kwak AH,Harris BT,Supattapone S

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00