Correction: The paradox of HBV evolution as revealed from a 16th century mummy.

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), an enigmatic endothelial cell vascular neoplasm, is characterized by the proliferation of spindle shaped endothelial cells, inflammatory cytokines (ICs), growth factors (GFs) and angiogenic factors. KSHV is etiologically linked to KS and expresses its latent genes in KS lesion endothelial cells....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sharma-Walia N,Paul AG,Bottero V,Sadagopan S,Veettil MV,Kerur N,Chandran B

更新日期：2010-02-12 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：:The genus Henipavirus in the family Paramyxoviridae contains two viruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) for which pteropid bats act as the main natural reservoir. Each virus also causes serious and commonly lethal infection of people as well as various species of domestic animals, however little is known ab...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Marsh GA,de Jong C,Barr JA,Tachedjian M,Smith C,Middleton D,Yu M,Todd S,Foord AJ,Haring V,Payne J,Robinson R,Broz I,Crameri G,Field HE,Wang LF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian prion structures and replication mechanisms are poorly understood. Most synthetic recombinant prion protein (rPrP) amyloids prepared without cofactors are non-infectious or much less infectious than bona fide tissue-derived PrPSc. This effect has been associated with differences in folding of the aggregates,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Groveman BR,Raymond GJ,Campbell KJ,Race B,Raymond LD,Hughson AG,Orrú CD,Kraus A,Phillips K,Caughey B

更新日期：2017-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease L (RNase L) is an important effector of the innate antiviral response. Mutations or variants that impair function of RNase L, particularly R462Q, have been proposed as susceptibility factors for prostate cancer. Given the role of this gene in viral defense, we sought to explore the possibility that a vira...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Urisman A,Molinaro RJ,Fischer N,Plummer SJ,Casey G,Klein EA,Malathi K,Magi-Galluzzi C,Tubbs RR,Ganem D,Silverman RH,DeRisi JL

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) vGPCR is a constitutively active G protein-coupled receptor that subverts proliferative and inflammatory signaling pathways to induce cell transformation in Kaposi's sarcoma. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is an inflammatory mediator that plays a key regulatory role in the acti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Medina MV,D Agostino A,Ma Q,Eroles P,Cavallin L,Chiozzini C,Sapochnik D,Cymeryng C,Hyjek E,Cesarman E,Naipauer J,Mesri EA,Coso OA

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a widely distributed herpesvirus that causes significant morbidity in immunocompromised hosts. Inhibitors of viral DNA replication are available, but adverse effects limit their use. Alternative antiviral strategies may include inhibition of entry. We show that soluble derivatives of th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Stegmann C,Hochdorfer D,Lieber D,Subramanian N,Stöhr D,Laib Sampaio K,Sinzger C

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immune cells shape the host response to microbial pathogens. Here we elucidate critical differences in the molecular response of macrophages vs. dendritic cells (DCs) to Histoplasma capsulatum, an intracellular fungal pathogen of humans. It has long been known that macrophages are permissive for Histoplasma gro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Van Prooyen N,Henderson CA,Hocking Murray D,Sil A

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of virus infection is mediated in part by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) Class Ia presentation of viral peptides to conventional CD8 T cells. Although important, the absolute requirement for MHC Class Ia-dependent CD8 T cells for control of chronic virus infection has not been formally demonstrated. We...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Braaten DC,McClellan JS,Messaoudi I,Tibbetts SA,McClellan KB,Nikolich-Zugich J,Virgin HW

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immune responses require the generation and recruitment of diverse blood cell types that recognize and kill pathogens. In Drosophila melanogaster larvae, immune-inducible lamellocytes participate in recognizing and killing parasitoid wasp eggs. However, the sequence of events required for lamellocyte generati...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Anderl I,Vesala L,Ihalainen TO,Vanha-Aho LM,Andó I,Rämet M,Hultmark D

更新日期：2016-07-14 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：: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：:Candida albicans is the most frequent cause of oral fungal infections. However, the exact pathogenicity mechanisms that this fungus employs are largely unknown and many of the genes expressed during oral infection are uncharacterized. In this study we sought to functionally characterize 12 previously unknown function ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mayer FL,Wilson D,Jacobsen ID,Miramón P,Große K,Hube B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of the determinants of pathogen reservoir potential is central to understand disease emergence. It has been proposed that host lifespan is one such determinant: short-lived hosts will invest less in costly defenses against pathogens, so that they will be more susceptible to infection, more competent as ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hily JM,García A,Moreno A,Plaza M,Wilkinson MD,Fereres A,Fraile A,García-Arenal F

更新日期：2014-11-06 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：:The essential transactivator function of the HIV Tat protein is regulated by multiple posttranslational modifications. Although individual modifications are well characterized, their crosstalk and dynamics of occurrence during the HIV transcription cycle remain unclear.We examine interactions between two critical modi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sakane N,Kwon HS,Pagans S,Kaehlcke K,Mizusawa Y,Kamada M,Lassen KG,Chan J,Greene WC,Schnoelzer M,Ott M

更新日期：2011-08-01 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

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：:Deltaretroviruses such as human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and bovine leukemia virus (BLV) induce a persistent infection that remains generally asymptomatic but can also lead to leukemia or lymphoma. These viruses replicate by infecting new lymphocytes (i.e. the infectious cycle) or via clonal expansion of t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gillet NA,Gutiérrez G,Rodriguez SM,de Brogniez A,Renotte N,Alvarez I,Trono K,Willems L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the Mycobacterium tuberculosis universal stress protein Rv2623 regulates mycobacterial growth and may be required for the establishment of tuberculous persistence. Here, yeast two-hybrid and affinity chromatography experiments have demonstrated that Rv2623 interacts with one of the two fo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Glass LN,Swapna G,Chavadi SS,Tufariello JM,Mi K,Drumm JE,Lam TT,Zhu G,Zhan C,Vilchéze C,Arcos J,Chen Y,Bi L,Mehta S,Porcelli SA,Almo SC,Yeh SR,Jacobs WR Jr,Torrelles JB,Chan J

更新日期：2017-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of intracellular pathogenic bacteria by members of the nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat containing (NLR) family triggers immune responses against bacterial infection. A major response induced by several Gram-negative bacteria is the activation of caspase-1 via the Nlrc4 inflammasome. Upon ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Suzuki S,Franchi L,He Y,Muñoz-Planillo R,Mimuro H,Suzuki T,Sasakawa C,Núñez G

更新日期：2014-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many viruses subvert the host cell's ability to mount and complete various DNA damage responses (DDRs) after infection. HCMV infection of permissive fibroblasts activates host DDRs at the time of viral deposition and during replication, but the DDRs remain uncompleted without arrest or apoptosis. We believe this was i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： O'Dowd JM,Zavala AG,Brown CJ,Mori T,Fortunato EA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of Toll pathway defense against bacterial infection has been well established in shrimp, however how this pathway responds to viral infection is still largely unknown. In this study, we report the Toll4-Dorsal-AMPs cascade restricts the white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) infection of shrimp. A total of nine...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li H,Yin B,Wang S,Fu Q,Xiao B,Lǚ K,He J,Li C

更新日期：2018-09-26 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：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), particularly serotype O157:H7, causes hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome, and even death. In vitro studies showed that Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2), the primary virulence factor expressed by EDL933 (an O157:H7 strain), is encoded by the 933W prophage. And the bacterial su...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tyler JS,Beeri K,Reynolds JL,Alteri CJ,Skinner KG,Friedman JH,Eaton KA,Friedman DI

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct phylogenetic lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) cause disease in patients of particular genetic ancestry, and elicit different patterns of cytokine and chemokine secretion when cultured with human macrophages in vitro. Circulating and antigen-stimulated concentrations of these inflammatory mediators...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Coussens AK,Wilkinson RJ,Nikolayevskyy V,Elkington PT,Hanifa Y,Islam K,Timms PM,Bothamley GH,Claxton AP,Packe GE,Darmalingam M,Davidson RN,Milburn HJ,Baker LV,Barker RD,Drobniewski FA,Mein CA,Bhaw-Rosun L,Nuamah RA,

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005032.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yelamanchili SV,Lamberty BG,Rennard DA,Morsey BM,Hochfelder CG,Meays BM,Levy E,Fox HS

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of DENV2 to display different morphologies (hence different antigenic properties) complicates vaccine and therapeutics development. Previous studies showed most strains of laboratory adapted DENV2 particles changed from smooth to "bumpy" surfaced morphology when the temperature is switched from 29°C at 37°...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lim XN,Shan C,Marzinek JK,Dong H,Ng TS,Ooi JSG,Fibriansah G,Wang J,Verma CS,Bond PJ,Shi PY,Lok SM

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, has been shown to induce expression of the urokinase receptor (uPAR); however, the role of uPAR in the immune response against Borrelia has never been investigated. uPAR not only acts as a proteinase receptor, but can also, dependently or in...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hovius JW,Bijlsma MF,van der Windt GJ,Wiersinga WJ,Boukens BJ,Coumou J,Oei A,de Beer R,de Vos AF,van 't Veer C,van Dam AP,Wang P,Fikrig E,Levi MM,Roelofs JJ,van der Poll T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006634.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Walsh D

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00