Fingolimod retains cytolytic T cells and limits T follicular helper cell infection in lymphoid sites of SIV persistence.

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：:HIV-1 replicative capacity (RC) provides a measure of within-host fitness and is determined in the context of phenotypic drug resistance testing. However it is unclear how these in-vitro measurements relate to in-vivo processes. Here we assess RCs in a clinical setting by combining a previously published machine-learn...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kouyos RD,von Wyl V,Hinkley T,Petropoulos CJ,Haddad M,Whitcomb JM,Böni J,Yerly S,Cellerai C,Klimkait T,Günthard HF,Bonhoeffer S,Swiss HIV Cohort Study.

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebolaviruses, highly lethal zoonotic pathogens, possess longer genomes than most other non-segmented negative-strand RNA viruses due in part to long 5' and 3' untranslated regions (UTRs) present in the seven viral transcriptional units. To date, specific functions have not been assigned to these UTRs. With reporter as...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shabman RS,Hoenen T,Groseth A,Jabado O,Binning JM,Amarasinghe GK,Feldmann H,Basler CF

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of peptidoglycan (PGN) is paramount for insect antibacterial defenses. In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the transmembrane PGN Recognition Protein LC (PGRP-LC) is a receptor of the Imd signaling pathway that is activated after infection with bacteria, mainly Gram-negative (Gram-). Here we demonstra...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Meister S,Agianian B,Turlure F,Relógio A,Morlais I,Kafatos FC,Christophides GK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus (SA) is the causative agent of both skin/soft tissue infections as well as invasive bloodstream infections. Though vaccines have been developed to target both humoral and T cell-mediated immune responses against SA, they have largely failed due to lack of protective efficacy. Group 1 CD1-restrict...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Visvabharathy L,Genardi S,Cao L,He Y,Alonzo F 3rd,Berdyshev E,Wang CR

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens hide immunogenic epitopes from the host to evade immunity, persist and cause infection. The opportunistic human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, which can cause fatal disease in immunocompromised patient populations, offers a good example as it masks the inflammatory epitope β-glucan in its cell wall from h...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hopke A,Nicke N,Hidu EE,Degani G,Popolo L,Wheeler RT

更新日期：2016-05-25 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：:Human defensins are at the forefront of the host responses to HIV and other pathogens in mucosal tissues. However, their ability to inactivate HIV in the bloodstream has been questioned due to the antagonistic effect of serum. In this study, we have examined the effect of sub-inhibitory concentrations of human α-defen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Demirkhanyan L,Marin M,Lu W,Melikyan GB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Toll-like receptors (TLRs) expressed by dendritic cells recognize nucleic acids derived from pathogens and play an important role in the immune responses against the influenza virus (IAV), a single-stranded RNA sensed by different receptors including TLR7. However, the importance of TLR7 processing in th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Maschalidi S,Hässler S,Blanc F,Sepulveda FE,Tohme M,Chignard M,van Endert P,Si-Tahar M,Descamps D,Manoury B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the hallmarks of adaptive immunity is the development of a long-term pathogen specific memory response. While persistent memory T cells certainly impact the immune response during a secondary challenge, their role in unrelated infections is less clear. To address this issue, we utilized lymphocytic choriomening...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crosby EJ,Goldschmidt MH,Wherry EJ,Scott P

更新日期：2014-02-27 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：:In plants, innate immune responses are initiated by plasma membrane-located pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) upon recognition of elicitors, including exogenous pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and endogenous damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). Arabidopsis thaliana produces more than 1000 se...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hou S,Wang X,Chen D,Yang X,Wang M,Turrà D,Di Pietro A,Zhang W

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies identified prion protein (PrP) mutants which act as dominant negative inhibitors of prion formation through a mechanism hypothesized to require an unidentified species-specific cofactor termed protein X. To study the mechanism of dominant negative inhibition in vitro, we used recombinant PrP(C) molecu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Geoghegan JC,Miller MB,Kwak AH,Harris BT,Supattapone S

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The envelope glycoprotein (Env) complexes of the human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV and SIV, respectively) mediate viral entry and are a target for neutralizing antibodies. The receptor binding surfaces of Env are in large part sterically occluded or conformationally masked prior to receptor binding. Knowl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zanetti G,Briggs JA,Grünewald K,Sattentau QJ,Fuller SD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase R (PKR) is a key regulator of the innate immune response. Activation of PKR during viral infection culminates in phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 (eIF2alpha) to inhibit protein translation. A broad range of regulator...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sadler AJ,Latchoumanin O,Hawkes D,Mak J,Williams BR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) can cause devastating pulmonary infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, yet the precise mechanisms underlying inflammation, recurrent exacerbations and transition from chronic stages to acute infection and septicemia are not known. Bcc bacteria are generally beli...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mesureur J,Feliciano JR,Wagner N,Gomes MC,Zhang L,Blanco-Gonzalez M,van der Vaart M,O'Callaghan D,Meijer AH,Vergunst AC

更新日期：2017-06-26 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：:HIV-1 uses a number of means to manipulate the immune system, to avoid recognition and to highjack signaling pathways. HIV-1 infected cells show limited Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) responsiveness via as yet unknown mechanisms. Using biochemical and biophysical approaches, we demonstrate that the trans-membrane domain (TM...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Reuven EM,Ali M,Rotem E,Schwarzer R,Gramatica A,Futerman AH,Shai Y

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The SUPPRESSOR OF rps4-RLD1 (SRFR1) gene was identified based on enhanced AvrRps4-triggered resistance in the naturally susceptible Arabidopsis accession RLD. No other phenotypic effects were recorded, and the extent of SRFR1 involvement in regulating effector-triggered immunity was unknown. Here we show that mutation...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kim SH,Gao F,Bhattacharjee S,Adiasor JA,Nam JC,Gassmann W

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue virus (DENV) is the leading cause of mosquito-borne viral illness and death in humans. Like many viruses, DENV has evolved potent mechanisms that abolish the antiviral response within infected cells. Nevertheless, several in vivo studies have demonstrated a key role of the innate immune response in controlling ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Décembre E,Assil S,Hillaire ML,Dejnirattisai W,Mongkolsapaya J,Screaton GR,Davidson AD,Dreux M

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006120.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kinosada H,Yasunaga JI,Shimura K,Miyazato P,Onishi C,Iyoda T,Inaba K,Matsuoka M

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction systems (TCS) are used by bacteria to sense and respond to their environment. TCS are typically composed of a sensor histidine kinase (HK) and a response regulator (RR). The Vibrio cholerae genome encodes 52 RR, but the role of these RRs in V. cholerae pathogenesis is largely unknown....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cheng AT,Ottemann KM,Yildiz FH

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful treatment of aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus fumigatus is threatened by an increasing incidence of drug resistance. This situation is further complicated by the finding that strains resistant to azoles, the major antifungal drugs for aspergillosis, have been widely disseminated across the globe. To eluc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hagiwara D,Miura D,Shimizu K,Paul S,Ohba A,Gonoi T,Watanabe A,Kamei K,Shintani T,Moye-Rowley WS,Kawamoto S,Gomi K

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The life long relationship between herpes simplex virus and its host hinges on the ability of the virus to aggressively replicate in epithelial cells at the site of infection and transport into the nervous system through axons innervating the infection site. Interaction between the virus and the sensory neuron represe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sawtell NM,Thompson RL

更新日期：2016-09-08 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：: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：:A defect in the PKA1 gene encoding the catalytic subunit of cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) is known to reduce capsule size and attenuate virulence in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Conversely, loss of the PKA regulatory subunit encoded by pkr1 results in overpro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hu G,Steen BR,Lian T,Sham AP,Tam N,Tangen KL,Kronstad JW

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and related lymphocryptoviruses (LCV) from non-human primates infect B cells, transform their growth to facilitate life-long viral persistence in the host, and contribute to B cell oncogenesis. Co-evolution of LCV with their primate hosts has led to species-specificity so that LCVs preferentia...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mühe J,Wang F

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia utilizes a sophisticated type III secretion system to enhance its chances of survival and to overcome the host immune system. SmpB (small protein B) and SsrA (small stable RNA A) are components of a unique bacterial translational control system that help maintain the bacterial translational machinery in a ful...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Okan NA,Bliska JB,Karzai AW

更新日期：2006-01-01 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