RNAi screening identifies a new Toll from shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei that restricts WSSV infection through activating Dorsal to induce antimicrobial peptides.

abstract：:Certain cutaneous human papillomaviruses (HPVs), which are ubiquitous and acquired early during childhood, can cause a variety of skin tumors and are likely involved in the development of non-melanoma skin cancer, especially in immunosuppressed patients. Hence, the burden of these clinical manifestations demands for a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vinzón SE,Braspenning-Wesch I,Müller M,Geissler EK,Nindl I,Gröne HJ,Schäfer K,Rösl F

更新日期：2014-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:For many viruses, one or two proteins allow cell attachment and entry, which occurs through the plasma membrane or following endocytosis at low pH. In contrast, vaccinia virus (VACV) enters cells by both neutral and low pH routes; four proteins mediate cell attachment and twelve that are associated in a membrane compl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Laliberte JP,Weisberg AS,Moss B

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schistosomiasis is second only to malaria in terms of the global impact among diseases caused by parasites. A striking feature of schistosomes are their ability to thrive in their hosts for decades. We have previously demonstrated that stem cells, called neoblasts, promote homeostatic tissue maintenance in adult schis...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Collins JN,Collins JJ 3rd

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The bactericidal function of macrophages against pneumococci is enhanced by their apoptotic demise, which is controlled by the anti-apoptotic protein Mcl-1. Here, we show that lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) and cytosolic translocation of activated cathepsin D occur prior to activation of a mitochondrial pat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bewley MA,Marriott HM,Tulone C,Francis SE,Mitchell TJ,Read RC,Chain B,Kroemer G,Whyte MK,Dockrell DH

更新日期：2011-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum, possesses a bacterial-type lactate dehydrogenase (CpLDH). This is considered to be an essential enzyme, as this parasite lacks the Krebs cycle and cytochrome-based respiration, and mainly-if not solely, relies on glycolysis to produce ATP. Here, we provide evidence that in ext...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang H,Guo F,Zhu G

更新日期：2015-11-12 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：:Transmission of Helicobacter pylori is thought to occur mainly during childhood, and predominantly within families. However, due to the difficulty of obtaining H. pylori isolates from large population samples and to the extensive genetic diversity between isolates, the transmission and spread of H. pylori remain poorl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schwarz S,Morelli G,Kusecek B,Manica A,Balloux F,Owen RJ,Graham DY,van der Merwe S,Achtman M,Suerbaum S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic dissection of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens has largely focused on genetic changes conferring growth above a single critical concentration of drug. However, reduced susceptibility to antibiotics-even below this breakpoint-is associated with poor treatment outcomes in the clinic, including in tub...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hicks ND,Giffen SR,Culviner PH,Chao MC,Dulberger CL,Liu Q,Stanley S,Brown J,Sixsmith J,Wolf ID,Fortune SM

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are pathogens formed from abnormal conformers (PrPSc) of the host-encoded cellular prion protein (PrPC). PrPSc conformation to disease phenotype relationships extensively vary among prion strains. In particular, prions exhibit a strain-dependent tropism for lymphoid tissues. Prions can be composed of several su...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Béringue V,Tixador P,Andréoletti O,Reine F,Castille J,Laï TL,Le Dur A,Laisné A,Herzog L,Passet B,Rezaei H,Vilotte JL,Laude H

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous targeting of host and pathogen processes represents an untapped approach for the treatment of intracellular infections. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is a host cell transcription factor that is activated by and required for the growth of the intracellular protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii at p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Brown KM,Suvorova E,Farrell A,McLain A,Dittmar A,Wiley GB,Marth G,Gaffney PM,Gubbels MJ,White M,Blader IJ

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the infectious prion protein (PrPSc), which is responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has escaped all attempts at elucidation due to its insolubility and propensity to aggregate. PrPSc replicates by converting the non-infectious, cellular prion protei...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vázquez-Fernández E,Vos MR,Afanasyev P,Cebey L,Sevillano AM,Vidal E,Rosa I,Renault L,Ramos A,Peters PJ,Fernández JJ,van Heel M,Young HS,Requena JR,Wille H

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) core protein (HBc) contains an N-terminal domain (NTD, assembly domain) and a C-terminal domain (CTD), which are linked by a flexible linker region. HBc plays multiple essential roles in viral replication, including capsid assembly, packaging of the viral pregenomic RNA (pgRNA) into nucleocapsi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Liu K,Luckenbaugh L,Ning X,Xi J,Hu J

更新日期：2018-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 19 to 23 nucleotide-long RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression. Human cells express several hundred miRNAs which regulate important biological pathways such as development, proliferation, and apoptosis. Recently, 12 miRNA genes have been identified within the genome of Kaposi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Samols MA,Skalsky RL,Maldonado AM,Riva A,Lopez MC,Baker HV,Renne R

更新日期：2007-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus asymbiotica is one of the three recognized species of the Photorhabdus genus, which consists of gram-negative bioluminescent bacteria belonging to the family Morganellaceae. These bacteria live in a symbiotic relationship with nematodes from the genus Heterorhabditis, together forming a complex that is hi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Jančaříková G,Houser J,Dobeš P,Demo G,Hyršl P,Wimmerová M

更新日期：2017-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The process by which drug-resistant HIV-1 arises and spreads spatially within an infected individual is poorly understood. Studies have found variable results relating how HIV-1 in the blood differs from virus sampled in tissues, offering conflicting findings about whether HIV-1 throughout the body is homogeneously di...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Feder AF,Kline C,Polacino P,Cottrell M,Kashuba ADM,Keele BF,Hu SL,Petrov DA,Pennings PS,Ambrose Z

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of next-generation sequencing platforms is set to reveal an unprecedented level of detail on short-term molecular evolutionary processes in bacteria. Here we re-analyse genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) datasets for recently emerged clones of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Castillo-Ramírez S,Harris SR,Holden MT,He M,Parkhill J,Bentley SD,Feil EJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), a mosquito-borne RNA virus, is one of the most acutely virulent viruses endemic to the Americas, causing between 30% and 70% mortality in symptomatic human cases. A major factor in the virulence of EEEV is the presence of four binding sites for the hematopoietic cell-specific ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Trobaugh DW,Sun C,Bhalla N,Gardner CL,Dunn MD,Klimstra WB

更新日期：2019-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Recognition of M. tuberculosis by pattern recognition receptors is crucial for activation of both innate and adaptive immune responses. In the present study, we demonstrate that nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain 2 (NOD2)...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ferwerda G,Girardin SE,Kullberg BJ,Le Bourhis L,de Jong DJ,Langenberg DM,van Crevel R,Adema GJ,Ottenhoff TH,Van der Meer JW,Netea MG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasites must undergo a round of sexual reproduction in the blood meal of a mosquito vector to be transmitted between hosts. Developing a transmission-blocking intervention to prevent parasites from mating is a major goal of biomedicine, but its effectiveness could be compromised if parasites can compensate b...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ramiro RS,Alpedrinha J,Carter L,Gardner A,Reece SE

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses encode a characteristic serine protease with a unique fold and an active site that comprises the unusual triad Ser-His-His. The protease is essential for viral replication and as such constitutes a promising drug target. In solution, a dynamic equilibrium exists between an inactive monomeric and an activ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zühlsdorf M,Werten S,Klupp BG,Palm GJ,Mettenleiter TC,Hinrichs W

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella spp. are Gram-negative enteropathogenic bacteria that infect a variety of vertebrate hosts. Like any other living organism, protein secretion is a fundamental process essential for various aspects of Salmonella biology. Herein we report the identification and characterization of a horizontally acquired, aut...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gal-Mor O,Gibson DL,Baluta D,Vallance BA,Finlay BB

更新日期：2008-04-04 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：: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：:The human parvovirus Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) type 2 can only replicate in cells co-infected with a helper virus, such as Adenovirus or Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 (HSV-1); whereas, in the absence of a helper virus, it establishes a latent infection. Previous studies demonstrated that the ternary HSV-1 helicase/pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Alazard-Dany N,Nicolas A,Ploquin A,Strasser R,Greco A,Epstein AL,Fraefel C,Salvetti A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TIA-1 positive stress granules (SG) represent the storage sites of stalled mRNAs and are often associated with the cellular antiviral response. In this report, we provide evidence that Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) overcomes the host antiviral response by inhibition of SG formation via a viral lytic p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sharma NR,Majerciak V,Kruhlak MJ,Zheng ZM

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) causes lifelong infection affecting between 50 and 90% of the global population. In addition to causing dermal lesions, HSV-1 is a leading cause of blindness resulting from recurrent corneal infection. Corneal disease is characterized by loss of corneal immunologic privilege and extensiv...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wuest T,Zheng M,Efstathiou S,Halford WP,Carr DJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central question in Leishmania research is why most species cause cutaneous infections but others cause fatal visceral disease. Interestingly, L. donovani causes both visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka. L. donovani clinical isolates were therefore obtained from cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL-SL) and visc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang WW,Ramasamy G,McCall LI,Haydock A,Ranasinghe S,Abeygunasekara P,Sirimanna G,Wickremasinghe R,Myler P,Matlashewski G

更新日期：2014-07-03 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：:Epidemiological studies have identified a correlation between maternal helminth infections and reduced immunity to some early childhood vaccinations, but the cellular basis for this is poorly understood. Here, we investigated the effects of maternal Schistosoma mansoni infection on steady-state offspring immunity, as ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cortés-Selva D,Gibbs L,Ready A,Ekiz HA,O'Connell R,Rajwa B,Fairfax KC

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poliomyelitis has nearly been eradicated through the efforts of the World Health Organization's Global Eradication Initiative raising questions on containment of the virus after it has been eliminated in the wild. Most manufacture of inactivated polio vaccines currently requires the growth of large amounts of highly v...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Knowlson S,Burlison J,Giles E,Fox H,Macadam AJ,Minor PD

更新日期：2015-12-31 00:00:00