EBV epitranscriptome reprogramming by METTL14 is critical for viral-associated tumorigenesis.

abstract：:Inducing broad spectrum neutralizing antibodies against challenging pathogens such as HIV-1 is a major vaccine design goal, but may be hindered by conformational instability within viral envelope glycoproteins (Env). Chemical cross-linking is widely used for vaccine antigen stabilization, but how this process affects ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schiffner T,Pallesen J,Russell RA,Dodd J,de Val N,LaBranche CC,Montefiori D,Tomaras GD,Shen X,Harris SL,Moghaddam AE,Kalyuzhniy O,Sanders RW,McCoy LE,Moore JP,Ward AB,Sattentau QJ

更新日期：2018-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pandemic influenza A virus (IAV) remains a significant threat to global health. Preparedness relies primarily upon a single class of neuraminidase (NA) targeted antivirals, against which resistance is steadily growing. The M2 proton channel is an alternative clinically proven antiviral target, yet a near-ubiquitous S3...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Scott C,Kankanala J,Foster TL,Goldhill DH,Bao P,Simmons K,Pingen M,Bentham M,Atkins E,Loundras E,Elderfield R,Claridge JK,Thompson J,Stilwell PR,Tathineni R,McKimmie CS,Targett-Adams P,Schnell JR,Cook GP,Evans S,B

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent linkage to members of the small ubiquitin-like (SUMO) family of proteins is an important mechanism by which the functions of many cellular proteins are regulated. Sumoylation has roles in the control of protein stability, activity and localization, and is involved in the regulation of transcription, gene expr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sloan E,Tatham MH,Groslambert M,Glass M,Orr A,Hay RT,Everett RD

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are critical for clearing many viral infections, and protective CTL memory can be induced by vaccination with attenuated viruses and vectors. Non-replicating vaccines are typically potentiated by the addition of adjuvants that enhance humoral responses, however few are capable of ge...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gasper DJ,Neldner B,Plisch EH,Rustom H,Carrow E,Imai H,Kawaoka Y,Suresh M

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear lamina lines the inner nuclear membrane providing a structural framework for the nucleus. Cellular processes, such as nuclear envelope breakdown during mitosis or nuclear export of large ribonucleoprotein complexes, are functionally linked to the disassembly of the nuclear lamina. In general, lamina disass...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Milbradt J,Hutterer C,Bahsi H,Wagner S,Sonntag E,Horn AH,Kaufer BB,Mori Y,Sticht H,Fossen T,Marschall M

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of HIV-infected cells after reversal of proviral latency is not well characterized. Simonetti, et al. recently showed that CD4+ T-cells containing intact proviruses can clonally expand in vivo and produce low-level infectious viremia. We hypothesized that reversal of HIV latency by activation of CD4+ T-cells ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bui JK,Halvas EK,Fyne E,Sobolewski MD,Koontz D,Shao W,Luke B,Hong FF,Kearney MF,Mellors JW

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori (Hp) injects the CagA effector protein into host epithelial cells and induces growth factor-like signaling, perturbs cell-cell junctions, and alters host cell polarity. This enables Hp to grow as microcolonies adhered to the host cell surface even in conditions that do not support growth of free-sw...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tan S,Noto JM,Romero-Gallo J,Peek RM Jr,Amieva MR

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:Gastrointestinal infections caused by enteric yersiniae can become persistent and complicated by relapsing enteritis and severe autoimmune disorders. To establish a persistent infection, the bacteria have to cope with hostile surroundings when they transmigrate through the intestinal epithelium and colonize underlying...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Heine W,Beckstette M,Heroven AK,Thiemann S,Heise U,Nuss AM,Pisano F,Strowig T,Dersch P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As well as their importance to nutrition, fatty acids (FA) represent a unique group of quorum sensing chemicals that modulate the behavior of bacterial population in virulence. However, the way in which full-length, membrane-bound receptors biochemically detect FA remains unclear. Here, we provide genetic, enzymologic...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cai Z,Yuan ZH,Zhang H,Pan Y,Wu Y,Tian XQ,Wang FF,Wang L,Qian W

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) capsids are found in many forms: immature single-stranded RNA-filled cores, single-stranded DNA-filled replication intermediates, mature cores with relaxed circular double-stranded DNA, and empty capsids. A capsid, the protein shell of the core, is a complex of 240 copies of core protein. Matur...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen C,Wang JC,Pierson EE,Keifer DZ,Delaleau M,Gallucci L,Cazenave C,Kann M,Jarrold MF,Zlotnick A

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In prion diseases, synapse dysfunction, axon retraction and loss of neuronal polarity precede neuronal death. The mechanisms driving such polarization defects, however, remain unclear. Here, we examined the contribution of RhoA-associated coiled-coil containing kinases (ROCK), key players in neuritogenesis, to prion d...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Alleaume-Butaux A,Nicot S,Pietri M,Baudry A,Dakowski C,Tixador P,Ardila-Osorio H,Haeberlé AM,Bailly Y,Peyrin JM,Launay JM,Kellermann O,Schneider B

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Two billion people are latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Mtb-infected macrophages are likely to be sequestered inside the hypoxic environments of the granuloma and differentiate into lipid-loaded macrophages that contain triacylglycerol (TAG)-filled lipid droplets which may provide a fatty acid-...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Daniel J,Maamar H,Deb C,Sirakova TD,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eliciting broad tier 2 neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) is a major goal of HIV-1 vaccine research. Here we investigated the ability of native, membrane-expressed JR-FL Env trimers to elicit nAbs. Unusually potent nAb titers developed in 2 of 8 rabbits immunized with virus-like particles (VLPs) expressing trimers (trimer...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crooks ET,Tong T,Chakrabarti B,Narayan K,Georgiev IS,Menis S,Huang X,Kulp D,Osawa K,Muranaka J,Stewart-Jones G,Destefano J,O'Dell S,LaBranche C,Robinson JE,Montefiori DC,McKee K,Du SX,Doria-Rose N,Kwong PD,Mascola

更新日期：2015-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytidine deaminases APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F exert anti-HIV-1 activity that is countered by the HIV-1 vif protein. Based on potential transcription factor binding sites in their putative promoters, we hypothesized that expression of APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F would vary with T helper lymphocyte differentiation. Naive CD4+...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vetter ML,Johnson ME,Antons AK,Unutmaz D,D'Aquila RT

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the role of prion infection of the olfactory mucosa in the shedding of prion infectivity into nasal secretions. Prion infection with the HY strain of the transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) agent resulted in a prominent infection of the olfactory bulb and the olfactory sensory epithelium in...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bessen RA,Shearin H,Martinka S,Boharski R,Lowe D,Wilham JM,Caughey B,Wiley JA

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus replication takes place in the host cell cytoplasm and triggers inflammatory gene expression by poorly characterized mechanisms. To obtain more insight into the signals and molecular events that coordinate global host responses in the nucleus of coronavirus-infected cells, first, transcriptome dynamics was...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Poppe M,Wittig S,Jurida L,Bartkuhn M,Wilhelm J,Müller H,Beuerlein K,Karl N,Bhuju S,Ziebuhr J,Schmitz ML,Kracht M

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is an important nosocomial pathogen that accounts for up to 20 percent of infections in intensive care units worldwide. Furthermore, A. baumannii strains have emerged that are resistant to all available antimicrobials. These facts highlight the dire need for new therapeutic strategies to combat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hood MI,Mortensen BL,Moore JL,Zhang Y,Kehl-Fie TE,Sugitani N,Chazin WJ,Caprioli RM,Skaar EP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A global increase in invasive infections due to group A Streptococcus (S. pyogenes or GAS) has been observed since the 1980s, associated with emergence of a clonal group of strains of the M1T1 serotype. Among other virulence attributes, the M1T1 clone secretes NAD+-glycohydrolase (NADase). When GAS binds to epithelial...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sharma O,O'Seaghdha M,Velarde JJ,Wessels MR

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 Vpu protein is expressed from a bi-cistronic message late in the viral life cycle. It functions during viral assembly to maximise infectious virus release by targeting CD4 for proteosomal degradation and counteracting the antiviral protein tetherin (BST2/CD317). Single genome analysis of vpu repertoires thro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pickering S,Hué S,Kim EY,Reddy S,Wolinsky SM,Neil SJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia suppress neutrophil responses by using a type 3 secretion system (T3SS) to inject 6-7 Yersinia effector proteins (Yops) effectors into their cytoplasm. YopH is a tyrosine phosphatase that causes dephosphorylation of the adaptor protein SKAP2, among other targets in neutrophils. SKAP2 functions in reactive oxy...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shaban L,Nguyen GT,Mecsas-Faxon BD,Swanson KD,Tan S,Mecsas J

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism controlling the exit from herpes simplex virus latency (HSV) is of central importance to recurrent disease and transmission of infection, yet interactions between host and viral functions that govern this process remain unclear. The cascade of HSV gene transcription is initiated by the multifunctional vi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Thompson RL,Preston CM,Sawtell NM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat-containing (NLR) class of immune receptors of plants and animals recognize pathogen-encoded proteins and trigger host defenses. Although animal NLRs form oligomers upon pathogen recognition to activate downstream signaling, the mechanisms of plant NLR activation remain large...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang J,Chen T,Han M,Qian L,Li J,Wu M,Han T,Cao J,Nagalakshmi U,Rathjen JP,Hong Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:IFNγ signaling drives dendritic cells (DCs) to promote type I T cell (Th1) immunity. Here, we show that activation of DCs by IFNγ is equally crucial for the differentiation of a population of T-bet+ regulatory T (Treg) cells specialized to inhibit Th1 immune responses. Conditional deletion of IFNγ receptor in DCs but ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lee HM,Fleige A,Forman R,Cho S,Khan AA,Lin LL,Nguyen DT,O'Hara-Hall A,Yin Z,Hunter CA,Muller W,Lu LF

更新日期：2015-02-06 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 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：:Replication of viroids, small non-protein-coding plant pathogenic RNAs, entails reiterative transcription of their incoming single-stranded circular genomes, to which the (+) polarity is arbitrarily assigned, cleavage of the oligomeric strands of one or both polarities to unit-length, and ligation to circular RNAs. Wh...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gas ME,Hernández C,Flores R,Daròs JA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The low pathogenicity and replicative potential of HIV-2 are still poorly understood. We investigated whether HIV-2 reservoirs might follow the peculiar distribution reported in models of attenuated HIV-1/SIV infections, i.e. limited infection of central-memory CD4 T lymphocytes (TCM). Antiretroviral-naive HIV-2 infec...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Samri A,Charpentier C,Diallo MS,Bertine M,Even S,Morin V,Oudin A,Parizot C,Collin G,Hosmalin A,Cheynier R,Thiébaut R,Matheron S,Collin F,Zoorob R,Brun-Vézinet F,Autran B,ANRS CO5 IMMUNOVIR-2 Study Group.

更新日期：2019-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 30 years, Zaire and Sudan ebolaviruses have been responsible for large hemorrhagic fever (HF) outbreaks with case fatalities ranging from 53% to 90%, while a third species, Côte d'Ivoire ebolavirus, caused a single non-fatal HF case. In November 2007, HF cases were reported in Bundibugyo District, Wester...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Towner JS,Sealy TK,Khristova ML,Albariño CG,Conlan S,Reeder SA,Quan PL,Lipkin WI,Downing R,Tappero JW,Okware S,Lutwama J,Bakamutumaho B,Kayiwa J,Comer JA,Rollin PE,Ksiazek TG,Nichol ST

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tm-2² is a coiled coil-nucleotide binding-leucine rich repeat resistance protein that confers durable extreme resistance against Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) and Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) by recognizing the viral movement protein (MP). Here we report that the Nicotiana benthamiana J-domain MIP1 proteins (NbMIP1s) assoc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Du Y,Zhao J,Chen T,Liu Q,Zhang H,Wang Y,Hong Y,Xiao F,Zhang L,Shen Q,Liu Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00