Bartonella effector protein C mediates actin stress fiber formation via recruitment of GEF-H1 to the plasma membrane.

abstract：:Alternaria brassicicola is a successful saprophyte and necrotrophic plant pathogen. Several A. brassicicola genes have been characterized as affecting pathogenesis of Brassica species. To study regulatory mechanisms of pathogenesis, we mined 421 genes in silico encoding putative transcription factors in a machine-anno...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cho Y,Srivastava A,Ohm RA,Lawrence CB,Wang KH,Grigoriev IV,Marahatta SP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian prion structures and replication mechanisms are poorly understood. Most synthetic recombinant prion protein (rPrP) amyloids prepared without cofactors are non-infectious or much less infectious than bona fide tissue-derived PrPSc. This effect has been associated with differences in folding of the aggregates,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Groveman BR,Raymond GJ,Campbell KJ,Race B,Raymond LD,Hughson AG,Orrú CD,Kraus A,Phillips K,Caughey B

更新日期：2017-09-14 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：:While the exopolysaccharide component of the biofilm matrix has been intensively studied, much less is known about matrix-associated proteins. To better understand the role of these proteins, we undertook a proteomic analysis of the V. cholerae biofilm matrix. Here we show that the two matrix-associated proteins, Bap1...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Absalon C,Van Dellen K,Watnick PI

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sedentary plant-parasitic nematodes are considered among the most economically damaging pathogens of plants. Following infection and the establishment of a feeding site, sedentary nematodes become immobile. Loss of mobility is reversed in adult males while females never regain mobility. The structural basis for th...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Han Z,Thapa S,Reuter-Carlson U,Reed H,Gates M,Lambert KN,Schroeder NE

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebolavirus (EBOV), the causative agent of a severe hemorrhagic fever and a biosafety level 4 pathogen, increases its genome coding capacity by producing multiple transcripts encoding for structural and nonstructural glycoproteins from a single gene. This is achieved through RNA editing, during which non-template adeno...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Mehedi M,Hoenen T,Robertson S,Ricklefs S,Dolan MA,Taylor T,Falzarano D,Ebihara H,Porcella SF,Feldmann H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus that persists lifelong in the host. In ∼4% of infected people, HTLV-1 causes a chronic disabling neuroinflammatory disease known as HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). The pathogenesis of HAM/TSP is unknown and treatment remain...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tattermusch S,Skinner JA,Chaussabel D,Banchereau J,Berry MP,McNab FW,O'Garra A,Taylor GP,Bangham CR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, undergoes morphological and transcriptional adaptation in the switch from commensalism to pathogenicity. Although previous gene-knockout studies have identified many factors involved in this transformation, it remains unclear how these factors are regulated to...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Greig JA,Sudbery IM,Richardson JP,Naglik JR,Wang Y,Sudbery PE

更新日期：2015-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial superantigens (SAgs) cause Vβ-dependent T-cell proliferation leading to immune dysregulation associated with the pathogenesis of life-threatening infections such as toxic shock syndrome, and necrotizing pneumonia. Previously, we demonstrated that staphylococcal enterotoxin-like toxin X (SElX) from Staphyloco...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tuffs SW,James DBA,Bestebroer J,Richards AC,Goncheva MI,O'Shea M,Wee BA,Seo KS,Schlievert PM,Lengeling A,van Strijp JA,Torres VJ,Fitzgerald JR

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus USA300 strains cause a highly inflammatory necrotizing pneumonia. The virulence of this strain has been attributed to its expression of multiple toxins that have diverse targets including ADAM10, NLRP3 and CD11b. We demonstrate that induction of necroptosis through RIP1/RIP3/MLKL signaling is a m...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kitur K,Parker D,Nieto P,Ahn DS,Cohen TS,Chung S,Wachtel S,Bueno S,Prince A

更新日期：2015-04-16 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：:Simian virus 40 (SV40) and cellular DNA replication rely on host ATM and ATR DNA damage signaling kinases to facilitate DNA repair and elicit cell cycle arrest following DNA damage. During SV40 DNA replication, ATM kinase activity prevents concatemerization of the viral genome whereas ATR activity prevents accumulatio...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sowd GA,Mody D,Eggold J,Cortez D,Friedman KL,Fanning E

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) pathways are widespread in metaozoans but the genes required show variable occurrence or activity in eukaryotic microbes, including many pathogens. While some Leishmania lack RNAi activity and Argonaute or Dicer genes, we show that Leishmania braziliensis and other species within the Leishmania...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lye LF,Owens K,Shi H,Murta SM,Vieira AC,Turco SJ,Tschudi C,Ullu E,Beverley SM

更新日期：2010-10-28 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：:We assessed the role of myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) in the outcome of SIV infection by comparing and contrasting their frequency, mobilization, phenotype, cytokine production and apoptosis in pathogenic (pigtailed macaques, PTMs), nonpathogenic (African green monkeys, AGMs) and controlled (rhesus macaques, RMs) SIV...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wijewardana V,Kristoff J,Xu C,Ma D,Haret-Richter G,Stock JL,Policicchio BB,Mobley AD,Nusbaum R,Aamer H,Trichel A,Ribeiro RM,Apetrei C,Pandrea I

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EV) mediate intercellular communication events and alterations in normal vesicle content contribute to function and disease initiation or progression. The ability to package a variety of cargo and transmit molecular information between cells renders EVs important mediators of cell-to-cell cross...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nkosi D,Sun L,Duke LC,Meckes DG Jr

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) is a pathogenic strain of avian paramyxovirus (aPMV-1) that is among the most serious of disease threats to the poultry industry worldwide. Viral diversity is high in aPMV-1; eight genotypes are recognized based on phylogenetic reconstruction of gene sequences. Modified live vaccines have...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chong YL,Padhi A,Hudson PJ,Poss M

更新日期：2010-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme metabolism is central to malaria parasite biology. The parasite acquires heme from host hemoglobin in the intraerythrocytic stages and stores it as hemozoin to prevent free heme toxicity. The parasite can also synthesize heme de novo, and all the enzymes in the pathway are characterized. To study the role of the ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nagaraj VA,Sundaram B,Varadarajan NM,Subramani PA,Kalappa DM,Ghosh SK,Padmanaban G

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:The DNA deaminase APOBEC3G converts cytosines to uracils in retroviral cDNA, which are immortalized as genomic strand G-to-A hypermutations by reverse transcription. A single round of APOBEC3G-dependent mutagenesis can be catastrophic, but evidence suggests that sublethal levels contribute to viral genetic diversity a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Refsland EW,Hultquist JF,Harris RS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During infection Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) encounters multiple environments within the host, which makes rapid adaptation a crucial factor for meningococcal survival. Despite the importance of invasion into the bloodstream in the meningococcal disease process, little is known about how Nm adapts to permit survival a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Echenique-Rivera H,Muzzi A,Del Tordello E,Seib KL,Francois P,Rappuoli R,Pizza M,Serruto D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus infection (HBV) is a major risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. HBV replicates from a covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) that remains as an episome within the nucleus of infected cells and serves as a template for the transcription of HBV RNAs. The regulatory protein HBx ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ducroux A,Benhenda S,Rivière L,Semmes OJ,Benkirane M,Neuveut C

更新日期：2014-09-11 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：:Intracellular pathogens must withstand nitric oxide (NO.) generated by host phagocytes. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium interferes with intracellular trafficking of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and possesses multiple systems to detoxify NO.. Consequently, the level of NO. stress encountered by S. Typ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Richardson AR,Soliven KC,Castor ME,Barnes PD,Libby SJ,Fang FC

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：:Micro (mi)RNAs are small non-coding RNAs that regulate the expression of their targets' messenger RNAs through both translational inhibition and regulation of target RNA stability. Recently, a number of viruses, particularly of the herpesvirus family, have been shown to express their own miRNAs to control both viral a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dölken L,Krmpotic A,Kothe S,Tuddenham L,Tanguy M,Marcinowski L,Ruzsics Z,Elefant N,Altuvia Y,Margalit H,Koszinowski UH,Jonjic S,Pfeffer S

更新日期：2010-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly phagocytic macrophages line the marginal zone (MZ) of the spleen and the lymph node subcapsular sinus. Although these macrophages have been attributed with a variety of functions, including the uptake and clearance of blood and lymph-borne pathogens, little is known about the effector mechanisms they employ aft...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Phillips R,Svensson M,Aziz N,Maroof A,Brown N,Beattie L,Signoret N,Kaye PM

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae is the causal agent of rice blast disease, a devastating problem worldwide. This fungus has caused breakdown of resistance conferred by newly developed commercial cultivars. To address how the rice blast fungus adapts itself to new resistance genes so quickly, we examined chromosomal locations of AV...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chuma I,Isobe C,Hotta Y,Ibaragi K,Futamata N,Kusaba M,Yoshida K,Terauchi R,Fujita Y,Nakayashiki H,Valent B,Tosa Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhalation of fungal spores (conidia) occurs commonly and, in specific circumstances, can result in invasive disease. We investigated the murine inflammatory response to conidia of Aspergillus fumigatus, the most common invasive mold in immunocompromised hosts. In contrast to dormant spores, germinating conidia induce...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hohl TM,Van Epps HL,Rivera A,Morgan LA,Chen PL,Feldmesser M,Pamer EG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00