Cryo-EM structures reveal two distinct conformational states in a picornavirus cell entry intermediate.

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：:Malaria vaccine candidate Apical Membrane Antigen-1 (AMA1) induces protection, but only against parasite strains that are closely related to the vaccine. Overcoming the AMA1 diversity problem will require an understanding of the structural basis of cross-strain invasion inhibition. A vaccine containing four diverse al...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dutta S,Dlugosz LS,Drew DR,Ge X,Ababacar D,Rovira YI,Moch JK,Shi M,Long CA,Foley M,Beeson JG,Anders RF,Miura K,Haynes JD,Batchelor AH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008654.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ghirardini E,Restelli E,Morini R,Bertani I,Ortolan D,Perrucci F,Pozzi D,Matteoli M,Chiesa R

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful infection of the host requires secretion of effector proteins to evade or suppress plant immunity. Secretion of effectors in root-infecting fungal pathogens, however, remains unexplored. We previously reported that Verticillium dahliae, a root-infecting phytopathogenic fungus, develops a penetration peg fro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhou TT,Zhao YL,Guo HS

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of human complement inhibitors to vaccine antigens in vivo could diminish their immunogenicity. A meningococcal ligand for the complement down-regulator, factor H (fH), is fH-binding protein (fHbp), which is specific for human fH. Vaccines containing recombinant fHbp or native outer membrane vesicles (NOMV...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Beernink PT,Shaughnessy J,Pajon R,Braga EM,Ram S,Granoff DM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of virus infection is mediated in part by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) Class Ia presentation of viral peptides to conventional CD8 T cells. Although important, the absolute requirement for MHC Class Ia-dependent CD8 T cells for control of chronic virus infection has not been formally demonstrated. We...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Braaten DC,McClellan JS,Messaoudi I,Tibbetts SA,McClellan KB,Nikolich-Zugich J,Virgin HW

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Ebola (EBOV) and Marburg (MARV) viruses are members of the Filoviridae family which cause outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever. The filovirus VP40 matrix protein is essential for virus assembly and budding, and its PPxY L-domain motif interacts with WW-domains of specific host proteins, such as Nedd4 and ITCH, to facilitate...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Liang J,Sagum CA,Bedford MT,Sidhu SS,Sudol M,Han Z,Harty RN

更新日期：2017-01-11 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：: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：:Legionella pneumophila translocates multiple bacterial effector proteins into host cells to direct formation of a replication vacuole for the bacterium. The emerging consensus is that formation of this compartment involves recruitment of membrane material that traffics between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dorer MS,Kirton D,Bader JS,Isberg RR

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the advent of genome-wide small interfering RNA screening, large numbers of cellular cofactors important for viral infection have been discovered at a rapid pace, but the viral targets and the mechanism of action for many of these cofactors remain undefined. One such cofactor is cyclophilin A (CyPA), upon which ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yang F,Robotham JM,Grise H,Frausto S,Madan V,Zayas M,Bartenschlager R,Robinson M,Greenstein AE,Nag A,Logan TM,Bienkiewicz E,Tang H

更新日期：2010-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect immune systems can recognize specific pathogens and prime offspring immunity. High specificity of immune priming can be achieved when insect females transfer immune elicitors into developing oocytes. The molecular mechanism behind this transfer has been a mystery. Here, we establish that the egg-yolk protein vi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Salmela H,Amdam GV,Freitak D

更新日期：2015-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes the sexually-transmitted infection gonorrhea, a global disease that is difficult to treat and for which there is no vaccine. This pathogen employs an arsenal of conserved outer membrane proteins called TonB-dependent transporters (TdTs) that allow the gonococcus to overcome nutritional imm...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Maurakis S,Keller K,Maxwell CN,Pereira K,Chazin WJ,Criss AK,Cornelissen CN

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A striking feature of human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is chronic inflammation in the spleen and liver, and VL patients present increased production levels of multiple inflammatory mediators, which contribute to tissue damage and disease severity. Here, we combined an experimental model with the transcriptional profi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sacramento LA,Benevides L,Maruyama SR,Tavares L,Fukutani KF,Francozo M,Sparwasser T,Cunha FQ,Almeida RP,da Silva JS,Carregaro V

更新日期：2020-03-25 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：:Fusogenic reoviruses encode fusion-associated small transmembrane (FAST) protein, which induces cell-cell fusion. FAST protein is the only known fusogenic protein in non-enveloped viruses, and its role in virus replication is not yet known. We generated replication-competent, FAST protein-deficient pteropine orthoreov...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kanai Y,Kawagishi T,Sakai Y,Nouda R,Shimojima M,Saijo M,Matsuura Y,Kobayashi T

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Venus kinase receptor (VKR) is a single transmembrane molecule composed of an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain close to that of insulin receptor and an extracellular Venus Flytrap (VFT) structure similar to the ligand binding domain of many class C G protein coupled receptors. This receptor tyrosine kinase (RT...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vanderstraete M,Gouignard N,Cailliau K,Morel M,Hahnel S,Leutner S,Beckmann S,Grevelding CG,Dissous C

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Both iron starvation and excess are detrimental to cellular life, especially for animal and plant pathogens since they always live in iron-limited environments produced by host immune responses. However, how organisms sense and respond to iron is incompletely understood. Herein, we reveal that in the phytopathogenic b...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang L,Pan Y,Yuan ZH,Zhang H,Peng BY,Wang FF,Qian W

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of the RIG-I like receptor (RLR) and type I interferon (IFN) signaling pathways are essential for a protective innate immune response against the emerging flavivirus West Nile virus (WNV). In mice lacking RLR or IFN signaling pathways, WNV exhibits enhanced tissue tropism, indicating that specific host fac...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Suthar MS,Brassil MM,Blahnik G,McMillan A,Ramos HJ,Proll SC,Belisle SE,Katze MG,Gale M Jr

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006551.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gidon A,Åsberg SE,Louet C,Ryan L,Haug M,Flo TH

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein gp120 is a vaccine immunogen that can signal via several cell surface receptors. To investigate whether receptor biology could influence immune responses to gp120, we studied its interaction with human, monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MDDCs) in vi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shan M,Klasse PJ,Banerjee K,Dey AK,Iyer SP,Dionisio R,Charles D,Campbell-Gardener L,Olson WC,Sanders RW,Moore JP

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious complications are a common cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy due to increased risk of oral and gastrointestinal candidiasis, candidemia and septicemia. Interactions between C. albicans and endogenous mucosal bacteria are important in understanding the mechanisms of ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bertolini M,Ranjan A,Thompson A,Diaz PI,Sobue T,Maas K,Dongari-Bagtzoglou A

更新日期：2019-04-22 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：:Deltaretroviruses such as human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and bovine leukemia virus (BLV) induce a persistent infection that remains generally asymptomatic but can also lead to leukemia or lymphoma. These viruses replicate by infecting new lymphocytes (i.e. the infectious cycle) or via clonal expansion of t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gillet NA,Gutiérrez G,Rodriguez SM,de Brogniez A,Renotte N,Alvarez I,Trono K,Willems L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than half of the world population is at risk of dengue virus (DENV) infection because of the global distribution of its mosquito vectors. DENV is an envelope virus that relies on host lipid membranes for its life-cycle. Here, we characterized how DENV hijacks the mosquito lipidome to identify targets for novel tr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vial T,Tan WL,Wong Wei Xiang B,Missé D,Deharo E,Marti G,Pompon J

更新日期：2019-12-09 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：:The NLRP3 inflammasome has emerged as a central immune regulator that senses virulence factors expressed by microbial pathogens for triggering inflammation. Inflammation can be harmful and therefore this response must be tightly controlled. The mechanisms by which immune cells, such as macrophages, discriminate benign...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tucey TM,Verma J,Olivier FAB,Lo TL,Robertson AAB,Naderer T,Traven A

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a positive-strand RNA virus encoding 3 open reading frames (ORF). HEV ORF3 protein is a small, hitherto poorly characterized protein involved in viral particle secretion and possibly other functions. Here, we show that HEV ORF3 protein forms membrane-associated oligomers. Immunoblot analyses...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gouttenoire J,Pollán A,Abrami L,Oechslin N,Mauron J,Matter M,Oppliger J,Szkolnicka D,Dao Thi VL,van der Goot FG,Moradpour D

更新日期：2018-12-10 00:00:00