MoYvh1 subverts rice defense through functions of ribosomal protein MoMrt4 in Magnaporthe oryzae.

abstract：:CD4(+) T cells are essential for the control of Yersinia enterocolitica (Ye) infection in mice. Ye can inhibit dendritic cell (DC) antigen uptake and degradation, maturation and subsequently T-cell activation in vitro. Here we investigated the effects of Ye infection on splenic DCs and T-cell proliferation in an exper...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Autenrieth SE,Linzer TR,Hiller C,Keller B,Warnke P,Köberle M,Bohn E,Biedermann T,Bühring HJ,Hämmerling GJ,Rammensee HG,Autenrieth IB

更新日期：2010-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory T cell inflation is a process in which a subset of cytomegalovirus (CMV) specific CD8 T cells continuously expands mainly during latent infection and establishes a large and stable population of effector memory cells in peripheral tissues. Here we set out to identify in vivo parameters that promote and limit CD...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

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

更新日期：2019-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:T-follicular helper (Tfh) cells, co-expressing PD-1 and TIGIT, serve as a major cell reservoir for HIV-1 and are responsible for active and persistent HIV-1 transcription after prolonged antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, the precise mechanisms regulating HIV-1 transcription in lymph nodes (LNs) remain unclear. In...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Banga R,Rebecchini C,Procopio FA,Noto A,Munoz O,Ioannidou K,Fenwick C,Ohmiti K,Cavassini M,Corpataux JM,de Leval L,Pantaleo G,Perreau M

更新日期：2019-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 strains harboring immune escape mutations can persist in circulation, but the impact of selection by multiple HLA alleles on population HIV-1 dynamics remains unclear. In Japan, HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase codon 135 (RT135) is under strong immune pressure by HLA-B*51:01-restricted and HLA-B*52:01-restricted T ce...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Akahoshi T,Gatanaga H,Kuse N,Chikata T,Koyanagi M,Ishizuka N,Brumme CJ,Murakoshi H,Brumme ZL,Oka S,Takiguchi M

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is a fundamental epigenetic modification that regulates gene expression and represses endogenous transposons and invading DNA viruses. As a counter-defense, the geminiviruses encode proteins that inhibit methylation and transcriptional gene silencing (TGS). Some geminiviruses have acquired a betasatell...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yang X,Xie Y,Raja P,Li S,Wolf JN,Shen Q,Bisaro DM,Zhou X

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tsetse flies are vectors of the protozoan parasite African trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness disease in humans and nagana in livestock. Although there are no effective vaccines and efficacious drugs against this parasite, vector reduction methods have been successful in curbing the disease, especially for na...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Alam U,Medlock J,Brelsfoard C,Pais R,Lohs C,Balmand S,Carnogursky J,Heddi A,Takac P,Galvani A,Aksoy S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metalloproteases (MPs) have demonstrated roles in immune modulation. In some cases, these enzymes are produced by parasites to influence host immune responses such that parasite infection is facilitated. One of the best examples of parasite-mediated immune modulation is the matrix metalloprotease (MMP) leishmanolysin ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hambrook JR,Kaboré AL,Pila EA,Hanington PC

更新日期：2018-10-29 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：: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：: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：:Experimental visceral leishmaniasis (VL) represents an exquisite model to study CD8(+) T cell responses in a context of chronic inflammation and antigen persistence, since it is characterized by chronic infection in the spleen and CD8(+) T cells are required for the development of protective immunity. However, antigen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Joshi T,Rodriguez S,Perovic V,Cockburn IA,Stäger S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia are maternally transmitted intracellular bacterial symbionts that infect approximately 40% of all insect species. Though several strains of Wolbachia naturally infect Drosophila melanogaster and provide resistance against viral pathogens, or provision metabolites during periods of nutritional stress, one vir...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rohrscheib CE,Frentiu FD,Horn E,Ritchie FK,van Swinderen B,Weible MW 2nd,O'Neill SL,Brownlie JC

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:RANTES (CCL5) is a chemokine expressed by many hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cell types that plays an important role in homing and migration of effector and memory T cells during acute infections. The RANTES receptor, CCR5, is a major target of anti-HIV drugs based on blocking viral entry. However, defects in RA...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crawford A,Angelosanto JM,Nadwodny KL,Blackburn SD,Wherry EJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on the growth rate and metabolism of microbial pathogens that cause long-term chronic infections is limited, reflecting the absence of suitable tools for measuring these parameters in vivo. Here, we have measured the replication and physiological state of Leishmania mexicana parasites in murine inflammator...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kloehn J,Saunders EC,O'Callaghan S,Dagley MJ,McConville MJ

更新日期：2015-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The African sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosoma brucei evades the host immune system through antigenic variation of its variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) coat. Although the T. brucei genome contains ∼1500 VSGs, only one VSG is expressed at a time from one of about 15 subtelomeric VSG expression sites (ESs). For an...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Povelones ML,Gluenz E,Dembek M,Gull K,Rudenko G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As humans age, they experience a progressive loss of thymic function and a corresponding shift in the makeup of the circulating CD8+ T cell population from naïve to memory phenotype. These alterations are believed to result in impaired CD8+ T cell responses in older individuals; however, evidence that these global cha...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lelic A,Verschoor CP,Ventresca M,Parsons R,Evelegh C,Bowdish D,Betts MR,Loeb MB,Bramson JL

更新日期：2012-01-01 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

abstract：:Since Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV or human herpesvirus 8) was first identified in Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) lesions of HIV-infected individuals with AIDS, the basic biological understanding of KSHV has progressed remarkably. However, the absence of a proper animal model for KSHV continues to impede direc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chang H,Wachtman LM,Pearson CB,Lee JS,Lee HR,Lee SH,Vieira J,Mansfield KG,Jung JU

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease in humans, is exposed to reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS) in both the tick vector and vertebrate reservoir hosts. B. burgdorferi contains a limited repertoire of canonical oxidative stress response genes, suggesting that novel gene functions m...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ramsey ME,Hyde JA,Medina-Perez DN,Lin T,Gao L,Lundt ME,Li X,Norris SJ,Skare JT,Hu LT

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4(+) T cell loss is central to HIV pathogenesis. In the initial weeks post-infection, the great majority of dying cells are uninfected CD4(+) T cells. We previously showed that the 3S motif of HIV-1 gp41 induces surface expression of NKp44L, a cellular ligand for an activating NK receptor, on uninfected bystander CD...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Fausther-Bovendo H,Vieillard V,Sagan S,Bismuth G,Debré P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to Plasmodium falciparum is associated with circulating "atypical" memory B cells (atMBCs), which appear similar to dysfunctional B cells found in HIV-infected individuals. Functional analysis of atMBCs has been limited, with one report suggesting these cells are not dysfunctional but produce protective antib...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sullivan RT,Kim CC,Fontana MF,Feeney ME,Jagannathan P,Boyle MJ,Drakeley CJ,Ssewanyana I,Nankya F,Mayanja-Kizza H,Dorsey G,Greenhouse B

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Transformation is an important mechanism of microbial evolution through which bacteria have been observed to rapidly adapt in response to clinical interventions; examples include facilitating vaccine evasion and the development of penicillin resistance in the major respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. To cha...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Croucher NJ,Harris SR,Barquist L,Parkhill J,Bentley SD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus (HSV)--and herpesviruses in general--encode for a multipartite entry/fusion apparatus. In HSV it consists of the HSV-specific glycoprotein D (gD), and three additional glycoproteins, gH/gL and gB, conserved across the Herpesviridae family and responsible for the execution of fusion. According to t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gianni T,Salvioli S,Chesnokova LS,Hutt-Fletcher LM,Campadelli-Fiume G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environments such as light condition influence the spread of infectious diseases by affecting insect vector behavior. However, whether and how light affects the host defense which further affects insect preference and performance, remains unclear, nor has been demonstrated how pathogens co-adapt light condition to fac...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhao P,Zhang X,Gong Y,Wang D,Xu D,Wang N,Sun Y,Gao L,Liu SS,Deng XW,Kliebenstein DJ,Zhou X,Fang RX,Ye J

更新日期：2021-01-11 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 two-component system (TCS) KdpD/KdpE, extensively studied for its regulatory role in potassium (K(+)) transport, has more recently been identified as an adaptive regulator involved in the virulence and intracellular survival of pathogenic bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, entero-haemorrhagic Escherichia c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Freeman ZN,Dorus S,Waterfield NR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses infect most humans. Their infections can be associated with pathological conditions and significant changes in T cell repertoire but evidences of symbiotic effects of herpesvirus latency have never been demonstrated. We tested the hypothesis that HCMV and EBV-specific CD8 T cells contribute to the hetero...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sandalova E,Laccabue D,Boni C,Tan AT,Fink K,Ooi EE,Chua R,Shafaeddin Schreve B,Ferrari C,Bertoletti A

更新日期：2010-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many viruses express factors that reduce host gene expression through widespread degradation of cellular mRNA. An example of this class of proteins is the mRNA-targeting endoribonuclease SOX from the gamma-herpesvirus Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). Previous studies indicated that cleavage of messenger...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gaglia MM,Rycroft CH,Glaunsinger BA

更新日期：2015-12-08 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：:Altered cell metabolism is inherently connected with pathological conditions including cancer and viral infections. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is the etiological agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). KS tumour cells display features of lymphatic endothelial differentiation and in their vast majority are ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yogev O,Lagos D,Enver T,Boshoff C

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00