Lipopolysaccharide O structure of adherent and invasive Escherichia coli regulates intestinal inflammation via complement C3.

abstract：:The 14-3-3 molecular scaffolds promote type I interferon (IFN) responses by stabilizing the interaction of RIG-I with the TRIM25 ligase. Viruses have evolved unique strategies to halt this cellular response to support their replication and spread. Here, we report that the ubiquitin deconjugase (DUB) encoded in the N-t...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gupta S,Ylä-Anttila P,Sandalova T,Sun R,Achour A,Masucci MG

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a widespread protein secretion apparatus used by Gram-negative bacteria to deliver toxic effector proteins into adjacent bacterial or host cells. Here, we uncovered a role in interbacterial competition for the two T6SSs encoded by the marine pathogen Vibrio alginolyticus. Using c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Salomon D,Klimko JA,Trudgian DC,Kinch LN,Grishin NV,Mirzaei H,Orth K

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, with fatality rates in humans of up to 90%. The molecular basis for the extreme virulence of ZEBOV remains elusive. While adult mice resist ZEBOV infection, the Mayinga strain of the virus has been adapted to cause lethal infecti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ebihara H,Takada A,Kobasa D,Jones S,Neumann G,Theriault S,Bray M,Feldmann H,Kawaoka Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of drug resistance, lack of an effective vaccine, and ongoing conflict and poverty means that malaria remains a major global health crisis. Understanding metabolic pathways at all parasite life stages is important in prioritising and targeting novel anti-parasitic compounds. The unusual heme synthesis ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rathnapala UL,Goodman CD,McFadden GI

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular bloodstream form parasite Trypanosoma brucei is supremely adapted to escape the host innate and adaptive immune system. Evasion is mediated through an antigenically variable Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) coat, which is recycled at extraordinarily high rates. Blocking VSG synthesis triggers a pre...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cheung JL,Wand NV,Ooi CP,Ridewood S,Wheeler RJ,Rudenko G

更新日期：2016-11-28 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：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the leading causes of nosocomial pneumonia and its associated mortality. Moreover, extensively drug-resistant high-risk clones are globally widespread, presenting a major challenge to the healthcare systems. Despite this, no vaccine is available against this high-concerning pathogen. H...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cabral MP,Correia A,Vilanova M,Gärtner F,Moscoso M,García P,Vallejo JA,Pérez A,Francisco-Tomé M,Fuentes-Valverde V,Bou G

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The digestive tract is the first organ affected by the ingestion of foodborne bacteria. While commensal bacteria become resident, opportunistic or virulent bacteria are eliminated from the gut by the local innate immune system. Here we characterize a new mechanism of defense, independent of the immune system, in Droso...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Benguettat O,Jneid R,Soltys J,Loudhaief R,Brun-Barale A,Osman D,Gallet A

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface recognition and penetration are critical steps in the infection cycle of many plant pathogenic fungi. In Magnaporthe oryzae, cAMP signaling is involved in surface recognition and pathogenesis. Deletion of the MAC1 adenylate cyclase gene affected appressorium formation and plant infection. In this study, we use...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhou X,Zhang H,Li G,Shaw B,Xu JR

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus causes an acute vesicular disease of domesticated and wild ruminants and pigs. Identifying sources of FMD outbreaks is often confounded by incomplete epidemiological evidence and the numerous routes by which virus can spread (movements of infected animals or their products, contamina...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cottam EM,Wadsworth J,Shaw AE,Rowlands RJ,Goatley L,Maan S,Maan NS,Mertens PP,Ebert K,Li Y,Ryan ED,Juleff N,Ferris NP,Wilesmith JW,Haydon DT,King DP,Paton DJ,Knowles NJ

更新日期：2008-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation initiation is a critical early step in the replication cycle of the positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome of noroviruses, a major cause of gastroenteritis in humans. Norovirus RNA, which has neither a 5´ m7G cap nor an internal ribosome entry site (IRES), adopts an unusual mechanism to initiate protei...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Leen EN,Sorgeloos F,Correia S,Chaudhry Y,Cannac F,Pastore C,Xu Y,Graham SC,Matthews SJ,Goodfellow IG,Curry S

更新日期：2016-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfold (M) cell host-pathogen interaction studies would benefit from the visual analysis of dynamic cellular and microbial interplays. We adapted a human in vitro M cell model to physiological bacterial infections, expression of fluorescent localization reporters and long-term three-dimensional time-lapse microscop...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rey C,Chang YY,Latour-Lambert P,Varet H,Proux C,Legendre R,Coppée JY,Enninga J

更新日期：2020-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax protein hijacks the host ubiquitin machinery to activate IκB kinases (IKKs) and NF-κB and promote cell survival; however, the key ubiquitinated factors downstream of Tax involved in cell transformation are unknown. Using mass spectrometry, we undertook an unbiased pr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Choi YB,Harhaj EW

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Marek's Disease Virus (MDV) is an alphaherpesvirus that infects chickens, transforms CD4+ T cells and causes deadly lymphomas. In addition, MDV induces immunosuppression early during infection by inducing cell death of the infected lymphocytes, and potentially due to activation of regulatory T (Treg)-cells. Furthermor...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gurung A,Kamble N,Kaufer BB,Pathan A,Behboudi S

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV and other lentiviruses can productively infect nondividing cells, whereas most other retroviruses, such as murine leukemia virus, require cell division for efficient infection. However, the determinants for this phenotype have been controversial. Here, we show that HIV-1 capsid (CA) is involved in facilitating HIV...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yamashita M,Perez O,Hope TJ,Emerman M

更新日期：2007-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the significance of a conserved five-amino acid motif 'AELPR' in the C-terminal region of helper component-proteinase (HCPro) for potato virus A (PVA; genus Potyvirus) infection. This motif is a putative interaction site for WD40 domain-containing proteins, including VARICOSE (VCS). We a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： De S,Pollari M,Varjosalo M,Mäkinen K

更新日期：2020-10-12 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

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen causing a wide spectrum of nosocomial and community-associated infections with high morbidity and mortality. S. aureus generates a large number of virulence factors whose timing and expression levels are precisely tuned by regulatory proteins and RNAs. The aptitude of ba...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Felden B,Vandenesch F,Bouloc P,Romby P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) arise from retroviruses chromosomally integrated in the host germline. ERVs are common in vertebrate genomes and provide a valuable fossil record of past retroviral infections to investigate the biology and evolution of retroviruses over a deep time scale, including cross-species transmi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhuo X,Feschotte C

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Equine rhinitis A virus (ERAV) is closely related to foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), belonging to the genus Aphthovirus of the Picornaviridae. How picornaviruses introduce their RNA genome into the cytoplasm of the host cell to initiate replication is unclear since they have no lipid envelope to facilitate fusion...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tuthill TJ,Harlos K,Walter TS,Knowles NJ,Groppelli E,Rowlands DJ,Stuart DI,Fry EE

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine protease cascades regulate important insect immune responses namely melanization and Toll pathway activation. An important component of these cascades are clip-domain serine protease homologs (cSPHs), which are non-catalytic, but essential for activating the enzyme prophenoloxidase (PPO) in the melanization res...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： El Moussawi L,Nakhleh J,Kamareddine L,Osta MA

更新日期：2019-11-25 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 factors that govern the development of tuberculosis disease are incompletely understood. We hypothesized that some strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) are more capable of causing disseminated disease than others and may be associated with polymorphisms in host genes responsible for the innate i...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Caws M,Thwaites G,Dunstan S,Hawn TR,Lan NT,Thuong NT,Stepniewska K,Huyen MN,Bang ND,Loc TH,Gagneux S,van Soolingen D,Kremer K,van der Sande M,Small P,Anh PT,Chinh NT,Quy HT,Duyen NT,Tho DQ,Hieu NT,Torok E,Hien

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal pathogen Candida albicans is frequently associated with catheter-based infections because of its ability to form resilient biofilms. Prior studies have shown that the transcription factor Bcr1 governs biofilm formation in an in vitro catheter model. However, the mechanistic role of the Bcr1 pathway and its ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nobile CJ,Andes DR,Nett JE,Smith FJ,Yue F,Phan QT,Edwards JE,Filler SG,Mitchell AP

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis remains one of the few major human pathogens for which there is no transformation system. C. trachomatis has a unique obligate intracellular developmental cycle. The extracellular infectious elementary body (EB) is an infectious, electron-dense structure that, following host cell infection, diffe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang Y,Kahane S,Cutcliffe LT,Skilton RJ,Lambden PR,Clarke IN

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DExD/H box RNA helicases, such as the RIG-I-like receptors (RLR), are important components of the innate immune system. Here we demonstrate a pivotal and sex-specific role for the heterosomal isoforms of the DEAD box RNA helicase DDX3 in the immune system. Mice lacking DDX3X during hematopoiesis showed an altered leuk...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Szappanos D,Tschismarov R,Perlot T,Westermayer S,Fischer K,Platanitis E,Kallinger F,Novatchkova M,Lassnig C,Müller M,Sexl V,Bennett KL,Foong-Sobis M,Penninger JM,Decker T

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasal colonization by both gram-positive and gram-negative pathogens induces expression of the innate immune protein lipocalin 2 (Lcn2). Lcn2 binds and sequesters the iron-scavenging siderophore enterobactin (Ent), preventing bacterial iron acquisition. In addition, Lcn2 bound to Ent induces release of IL-8 from cultu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bachman MA,Miller VL,Weiser JN

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is one of the most significant pathogens affecting global food security. To cause rice blast disease the fungus elaborates a specialised infection structure called an appressorium. Here, we report genome wide transcriptional profile analysis of appressorium development using ne...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Soanes DM,Chakrabarti A,Paszkiewicz KH,Dawe AL,Talbot NJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial processing peptidases are heterodimeric enzymes (alpha/betaMPP) that play an essential role in mitochondrial biogenesis by recognizing and cleaving the targeting presequences of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins. The two subunits are paralogues that probably evolved by duplication of a gene for a mo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Smíd O,Matusková A,Harris SR,Kucera T,Novotný M,Horváthová L,Hrdý I,Kutejová E,Hirt RP,Embley TM,Janata J,Tachezy J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00