Dissecting genetic and sex-specific sources of host heterogeneity in pathogen shedding and spread.

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica transmembrane kinases (EhTMKs) can be grouped into six distinct families on the basis of motifs and sequences. Analysis of the E. histolytica genome revealed the presence of 35 EhTMKB1 members on the basis of sequence identity (>or=95%). Only six homologs were full length containing an extracellu...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shrimal S,Bhattacharya S,Bhattacharya A

更新日期：2010-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1) glycoprotein gE-gI is a transmembrane Fc receptor found on the surface of infected cells and virions that binds human immunoglobulin G (hIgG). gE-gI can also participate in antibody bipolar bridging (ABB), a process by which the antigen-binding fragments (Fabs) of the IgG bind a vira...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ndjamen B,Farley AH,Lee T,Fraser SE,Bjorkman PJ

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic events associated with maintaining redox homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) during infection are poorly understood. Here, we discovered a novel redox switching mechanism by which Mtb WhiB3 under defined oxidizing and reducing conditions differentially modulates the assimilation of propionate...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Singh A,Crossman DK,Mai D,Guidry L,Voskuil MI,Renfrow MB,Steyn AJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulatory networks are fundamental to how microbes alter gene expression in response to environmental stimuli, thereby playing a critical role in bacterial pathogenesis. However, understanding how bacterial transcriptional regulatory networks function during host-pathogen interaction is limited. Recen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Shelburne SA,Olsen RJ,Suber B,Sahasrabhojane P,Sumby P,Brennan RG,Musser JM

更新日期：2010-03-19 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：:The retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I)-like receptors (RLRs), including RIG-I and melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (MDA5), sense cytoplasmic viral RNA and initiate innate antiviral responses. How RIG-I and MDA5 are differentially regulated remains enigmatic. In this study, we identified the guanylate-bin...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhong X,Feng L,Zang R,Lei CQ,Yang Q,Shu HB

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many biological processes are controlled by intricate networks of transcriptional regulators. With the development of microarray technology, transcriptional changes can be examined at the whole-genome level. However, such analysis often lacks information on the hierarchical relationship between components of a given s...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wang D,Amornsiripanitch N,Dong X

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of CD8 T cells in anti-tuberculosis immunity in humans remains unknown, and studies of CD8 T cell-mediated protection against tuberculosis in mice have yielded controversial results. Unlike mice, humans and nonhuman primates share a number of important features of the immune system that relate directly to the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen CY,Huang D,Wang RC,Shen L,Zeng G,Yao S,Shen Y,Halliday L,Fortman J,McAllister M,Estep J,Hunt R,Vasconcelos D,Du G,Porcelli SA,Larsen MH,Jacobs WR Jr,Haynes BF,Letvin NL,Chen ZW

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria that live in the environment have evolved pathways specialized to defend against eukaryotic organisms or other bacteria. In this manuscript, we systematically examined the role of the five type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) of Burkholderia thailandensis (B. thai) in eukaryotic and bacterial cell interactions. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Schwarz S,West TE,Boyer F,Chiang WC,Carl MA,Hood RD,Rohmer L,Tolker-Nielsen T,Skerrett SJ,Mougous JD

更新日期：2010-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecific and intervarietal hybridization may contribute to the biological diversity of fungal populations. Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic yeast and the most common fungal cause of meningitis in patients with AIDS. Most patients are infected with either of the two varieties of C. neoformans, designated as...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Litvintseva AP,Lin X,Templeton I,Heitman J,Mitchell TG

更新日期：2007-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the TRIpartite interaction Motif (TRIM) family of E3 ligases have been shown to exhibit antiviral activities. Here we report a near comprehensive screen for antiretroviral activities of 55 TRIM proteins (36 human, 19 mouse). We identified approximately 20 TRIM proteins that, when transiently expressed in HE...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Uchil PD,Quinlan BD,Chan WT,Luna JM,Mothes W

更新日期：2008-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant microRNAs (miRNA) guide cleavage of target mRNAs by DICER-like proteins, thereby reducing mRNA abundance. Native precursor miRNAs can be redesigned to target RNAs of interest, and one application of such artificial microRNA (amiRNA) technology is to generate plants resistant to pathogenic viruses. Transgenic Ara...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lin SS,Wu HW,Elena SF,Chen KC,Niu QW,Yeh SD,Chen CC,Chua NH

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) (genus Phlebovirus, family Bunyaviridae) is a negative-stranded RNA virus with a tripartite genome. RVFV is transmitted by mosquitoes and causes fever and severe hemorrhagic illness among humans, and fever and high rates of abortions in livestock. A nonstructural RVFV NSs protein inhibit...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ikegami T,Narayanan K,Won S,Kamitani W,Peters CJ,Makino S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remodelling of the actin cytoskeleton in response to external stimuli is obligatory for many cellular processes in the amoebic cell. A rapid and local rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton is required for the development of the cellular protrusions during phagocytosis, trogocytosis, migration, and invasion. Here, we...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tripathi A,Jain M,Chandra M,Parveen S,Yadav R,Collins BM,Maiti S,Datta S

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) are considered leads for HIV-1 vaccine development and novel therapeutics. Here, we systematically explored the capacity of bnAbs to neutralize HIV-1 prior to and post-CD4 engagement and to block HIV-1 cell-cell transmission. Cell-cell spread is known to ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Reh L,Magnus C,Schanz M,Weber J,Uhr T,Rusert P,Trkola A

更新日期：2015-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Host genetic variation modifying HIV-1 acquisition risk can inform development of HIV-1 prevention strategies. However, associations between rare or intermediate-frequency variants and HIV-1 acquisition are not well studied. We tested for the association between variation in genic regions and extreme HIV-1 acquisition...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mackelprang RD,Bamshad MJ,Chong JX,Hou X,Buckingham KJ,Shively K,deBruyn G,Mugo NR,Mullins JI,McElrath MJ,Baeten JM,Celum C,Emond MJ,Lingappa JR,Partners in Prevention HSV\/HIV Transmission Study and the Partners PrEP Study T

更新日期：2017-11-06 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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) suppress the transcriptional and post-transcriptional expression of genes in plants. Several miRNA families target genes encoding nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NB-LRR) plant innate immune receptors. The fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici causes vascular wilt disease in tomat...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ouyang S,Park G,Atamian HS,Han CS,Stajich JE,Kaloshian I,Borkovich KA

更新日期：2014-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006236.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kalam H,Fontana MF,Kumar D

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In inflammation, pain is regulated by a balance of pro- and analgesic mediators. Analgesic mediators include opioid peptides which are secreted by neutrophils at the site of inflammation, leading to activation of opioid receptors on peripheral sensory neurons. In humans, local opioids and opioid peptides significantly...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rittner HL,Hackel D,Voigt P,Mousa S,Stolz A,Labuz D,Schäfer M,Schaefer M,Stein C,Brack A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpesvirus life cycle has two distinct phases: latency and lytic replication. The balance between these two phases is critical for viral pathogenesis. It is believed that cellular signals regulate the switch from latency to lytic replication. To systematically evaluate the cellular signals regulating this reactiv...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Yu F,Harada JN,Brown HJ,Deng H,Song MJ,Wu TT,Kato-Stankiewicz J,Nelson CG,Vieira J,Tamanoi F,Chanda SK,Sun R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic hantaviruses, genus Orthohantaviridae, are maintained in rodent reservoirs with zoonotic transmission to humans occurring through inhalation of rodent excreta. Hantavirus disease in humans is characterized by localized vascular leakage and elevated levels of circulating proinflammatory cytokines. Despite th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kell AM,Hemann EA,Turnbull JB,Gale M Jr

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:G3BP-1 and -2 (hereafter referred to as G3BP) are multifunctional RNA-binding proteins involved in stress granule (SG) assembly. Viruses from diverse families target G3BP for recruitment to replication or transcription complexes in order to block SG assembly but also to acquire pro-viral effects via other unknown func...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Götte B,Panas MD,Hellström K,Liu L,Samreen B,Larsson O,Ahola T,McInerney GM

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy has been shown to be important for the cellular remodelling required for Leishmania differentiation. We now demonstrate that L. major contains a functional ATG12-ATG5 conjugation system, which is required for ATG8-dependent autophagosome formation. Nascent autophagosomes were found commonly associated w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Williams RA,Smith TK,Cull B,Mottram JC,Coombs GH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inability of sodium antimony gluconate (SAG)-unresponsive kala-azar patients to clear Leishmania donovani (LD) infection despite SAG therapy is partly due to an ill-defined immune-dysfunction. Since dendritic cells (DCs) typically initiate anti-leishmanial immunity, a role for DCs in aberrant LD clearance was inve...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Haldar AK,Yadav V,Singhal E,Bisht KK,Singh A,Bhaumik S,Basu R,Sen P,Roy S

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is currently the only approved vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) and is administered in over 150 countries worldwide. Despite its widespread use, the vaccine has a variable protective efficacy of 0-80%, with the lowest efficacy rates in tropical regions where TB is most prevalent. This va...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Price DN,Kusewitt DF,Lino CA,McBride AA,Muttil P

更新日期：2016-05-06 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：:The success of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a pathogen derives from its facile adaptation to the intracellular milieu of human macrophages. To explore this process, we asked whether adaptation also required interference with the metabolic machinery of the host cell. Temporal profiling of the metabolic flux, in cells ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mehrotra P,Jamwal SV,Saquib N,Sinha N,Siddiqui Z,Manivel V,Chatterjee S,Rao KV

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS, a.k.a. MB21D1), a cytosolic DNA sensor, catalyzes formation of the second messenger 2'3'-cGAMP that activates the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) signaling. How the cGAS activity is modulated remains largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that sentrin/SUMO-specific protease...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cui Y,Yu H,Zheng X,Peng R,Wang Q,Zhou Y,Wang R,Wang J,Qu B,Shen N,Guo Q,Liu X,Wang C

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:PB1-F2 is a 90 amino acid protein that is expressed from the +1 open reading frame in the PB1 gene of some influenza A viruses and has been shown to contribute to viral pathogenicity. Notably, a serine at position 66 (66S) in PB1-F2 is known to increase virulence compared to an isogenic virus with an asparagine (66N) ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Varga ZT,Ramos I,Hai R,Schmolke M,García-Sastre A,Fernandez-Sesma A,Palese P

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00