Mutational pathway maps and founder effects define the within-host spectrum of hepatitis C virus mutants resistant to drugs.

abstract：:The N-terminal domains of the herpesvirus large tegument proteins encode a conserved cysteine protease with ubiquitin- and NEDD8-specific deconjugase activity. The proteins are expressed during the productive virus cycle and are incorporated into infectious virus particles, being delivered to the target cells upon pri...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gupta S,Ylä-Anttila P,Callegari S,Tsai MH,Delecluse HJ,Masucci MG

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The picornaviruses coxsackievirus A24 variant (CVA24v) and enterovirus 70 (EV70) cause continued outbreaks and pandemics of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC), a highly contagious eye disease against which neither vaccines nor antiviral drugs are currently available. Moreover, these viruses can cause symptoms in t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zocher G,Mistry N,Frank M,Hähnlein-Schick I,Ekström JO,Arnberg N,Stehle T

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae is a significant human pathogen, in part due to high rates of multidrug resistance. RamA is an intrinsic regulator in K. pneumoniae established to be important for the bacterial response to antimicrobial challenge; however, little is known about its possible wider regulatory role in this organism...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： De Majumdar S,Yu J,Fookes M,McAteer SP,Llobet E,Finn S,Spence S,Monahan A,Monaghan A,Kissenpfennig A,Ingram RJ,Bengoechea J,Gally DL,Fanning S,Elborn JS,Schneiders T

更新日期：2015-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria, caused by the apicomplexan parasite Plasmodium, still represents a major threat to human health and welfare and leads to about one million human deaths annually. Plasmodium is a rapidly multiplying unicellular organism undergoing a complex developmental cycle in man and mosquito - a life style that requires r...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kehr S,Sturm N,Rahlfs S,Przyborski JM,Becker K

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria is a global health concern caused by infection with Plasmodium parasites. With rising insecticide and drug resistance, there is a critical need to develop novel control strategies, including strategies to block parasite sporogony in key mosquito vector species. MAPK signaling pathways regulated by extracellula...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Souvannaseng L,Hun LV,Baker H,Klyver JM,Wang B,Pakpour N,Bridgewater JM,Napoli E,Giulivi C,Riehle MA,Luckhart S

更新日期：2018-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen causing gastroenteritis in humans and a systemic typhoid-like illness in mice. The capacity of Salmonella to cause diseases relies on the establishment of its intracellular replication niche, a membrane-bound compartment named the Salmonella...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schroeder N,Henry T,de Chastellier C,Zhao W,Guilhon AA,Gorvel JP,Méresse S

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While immunological memory has long been considered the province of T- and B-lymphocytes, it has recently been reported that innate cell populations are capable of mediating memory responses. We now show that an innate memory immune response is generated in mice following infection with vaccinia virus, a poxvirus for ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gillard GO,Bivas-Benita M,Hovav AH,Grandpre LE,Panas MW,Seaman MS,Haynes BF,Letvin NL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) has antiviral functions and many viruses encode gene products that disrupt PML nuclear bodies (PML NBs). However, evidence of the relevance of PML NB modification for viral pathogenesis is limited and little is known about viral gene functions required for PML NB disruption in infe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang L,Oliver SL,Sommer M,Rajamani J,Reichelt M,Arvin AM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a frequent complication in critical illness. The mechanisms that are involved in initiation and propagation of the disease are not well understood. Scavenger receptor A (SRA) is a membrane receptor that binds multiple polyanions such as oxidized LDL and endotoxin. Recent studies suggest that SRA acts as a pa...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ozment TR,Ha T,Breuel KF,Ford TR,Ferguson DA,Kalbfleisch J,Schweitzer JB,Kelley JL,Li C,Williams DL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterosexual risk group has become the largest HIV infected group in the United Kingdom during the last 10 years, but little is known of the network structure and dynamics of viral transmission in this group. The overwhelming majority of UK heterosexual infections are of non-B HIV subtypes, indicating viruses orig...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hughes GJ,Fearnhill E,Dunn D,Lycett SJ,Rambaut A,Leigh Brown AJ,UK HIV Drug Resistance Collaboration.

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) pathways are widespread in metaozoans but the genes required show variable occurrence or activity in eukaryotic microbes, including many pathogens. While some Leishmania lack RNAi activity and Argonaute or Dicer genes, we show that Leishmania braziliensis and other species within the Leishmania...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lye LF,Owens K,Shi H,Murta SM,Vieira AC,Turco SJ,Tschudi C,Ullu E,Beverley SM

更新日期：2010-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram-negative bacterium, Legionella pneumophila, is a protozoan parasite and accidental intracellular pathogen of humans. We propose a model in which cycling through multiple protozoan hosts in the environment holds L. pneumophila in a state of evolutionary stasis as a broad host-range pathogen. Using an experimen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ensminger AW,Yassin Y,Miron A,Isberg RR

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：: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：:As with many viruses, rabies virus (RABV) infection induces type I interferon (IFN) production within the infected host cells. However, RABV has evolved mechanisms by which to inhibit IFN production in order to sustain infection. Here we show that RABV infection of dendritic cells (DC) induces potent type I IFN produc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Faul EJ,Wanjalla CN,Suthar MS,Gale M,Wirblich C,Schnell MJ

更新日期：2010-07-22 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：:SARS coronavirus (SCoV) nonstructural protein (nsp) 1, a potent inhibitor of host gene expression, possesses a unique mode of action: it binds to 40S ribosomes to inactivate their translation functions and induces host mRNA degradation. Our previous study demonstrated that nsp1 induces RNA modification near the 5'-end...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Huang C,Lokugamage KG,Rozovics JM,Narayanan K,Semler BL,Makino S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that secretes an array of immune-modulatory molecules, including secondary metabolites (SMs), which contribute to enhancing fungal fitness and growth within the mammalian host. Gliotoxin (GT) is a SM that interferes with the function and recruitment of innate i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ries LNA,Pardeshi L,Dong Z,Tan K,Steenwyk JL,Colabardini AC,Ferreira Filho JA,de Castro PA,Silva LP,Preite NW,Almeida F,de Assis LJ,Dos Santos RAC,Bowyer P,Bromley M,Owens RA,Doyle S,Demasi M,Hernández DCR,Netto LES

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic nematodes are of medical and veterinary importance, adversely affecting human health and animal welfare. Ascaris suum is a gastrointestinal parasite of pigs; in addition to its veterinary significance it is a good model of the human parasite Ascaris lumbricoides, estimated to infect approximately 1.4 billion...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Williamson SM,Robertson AP,Brown L,Williams T,Woods DJ,Martin RJ,Sattelle DB,Wolstenholme AJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens often follow more than one transmission route during outbreaks-from needle sharing plus sexual transmission of HIV to small droplet aerosol plus fomite transmission of influenza. Thus, controlling an infectious disease outbreak often requires characterizing the risk associated with multiple mechanisms of tra...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Allard A,Althouse BM,Hébert-Dufresne L,Scarpino SV

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A fatal human case of Duvenhage virus (DUVV) infection in a Dutch traveller who had returned from Kenya was reported in 2007. She exhibited classical symptoms of rabies encephalitis with distinct pathological findings. In the present study we describe the isolation and characterization of DUVV in vitro and its passage...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Koraka P,Martina BE,Roose JM,van Thiel PP,van Amerongen G,Kuiken T,Osterhaus AD

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Lyme disease in humans is caused by several genospecies of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) complex of spirochetal bacteria, including B. burgdorferi, B. afzelii and B. garinii. These bacteria exist in nature as obligate parasites in an enzootic cycle between small vertebrate hosts and Ixodid tick vectors, w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bhatia B,Hillman C,Carracoi V,Cheff BN,Tilly K,Rosa PA

更新日期：2018-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus disease afflicts both human and animal populations and is caused by four ebolaviruses. These different ebolaviruses may have distinct reservoir hosts and ecological contexts that determine how, where, and when different ebolavirus spillover events occur. Understanding these virus-specific relationships is ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Judson SD,Fischer R,Judson A,Munster VJ

更新日期：2016-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:African trypanosomes thrive in the bloodstream and tissue spaces of a wide range of mammalian hosts. Infections of cattle cause an enormous socio-economic burden in sub-Saharan Africa. A hallmark of the trypanosome lifestyle is the flagellate's incessant motion. This work details the cell motility behavior of the four...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bargul JL,Jung J,McOdimba FA,Omogo CO,Adung'a VO,Krüger T,Masiga DK,Engstler M

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory CD8 T cells can provide protection from re-infection by respiratory viruses such as influenza and SARS. However, the relative contribution of memory CD8 T cells in providing protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is currently unclear. To address this knowledge gap, we utilized a prime-bo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schmidt ME,Knudson CJ,Hartwig SM,Pewe LL,Meyerholz DK,Langlois RA,Harty JT,Varga SM

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinia virus A33 is an extracellular enveloped virus (EEV)-specific type II membrane glycoprotein that is essential for efficient EEV formation and long-range viral spread within the host. A33 is a target for neutralizing antibody responses against EEV. In this study, we produced seven murine anti-A33 monoclonal ant...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Matho MH,Schlossman A,Meng X,Benhnia MR,Kaever T,Buller M,Doronin K,Parker S,Peters B,Crotty S,Xiang Y,Zajonc DM

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoviral vectors have shown significant promise as vaccine delivery vectors due to their ability to elicit both innate and adaptive immune responses. α-defensins are effector molecules of the innate immune response and have been shown to modulate natural infection with adenoviruses, but the majority of α-defensin-ad...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tartaglia LJ,Badamchi-Zadeh A,Abbink P,Blass E,Aid M,Gebre MS,Li Z,Pastores KC,Trott S,Gupte S,Larocca RA,Barouch DH

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera, the pandemic diarrheal disease caused by the gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae, continues to be a major public health challenge in the developing world. Cholera toxin, which is responsible for the voluminous stools of cholera, causes constitutive activation of adenylyl cyclase, resulting in the export o...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Blow NS,Salomon RN,Garrity K,Reveillaud I,Kopin A,Jackson FR,Watnick PI

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant parasitic nematodes (PPNs) seriously threaten global food security. Conventionally an integrated approach to PPN management has relied heavily on carbamate, organophosphate and fumigant nematicides which are now being withdrawn over environmental health and safety concerns. This progressive withdrawal has left a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Warnock ND,Wilson L,Patten C,Fleming CC,Maule AG,Dalzell JJ

更新日期：2017-02-27 00:00:00