Viruses and autoimmune disease--two sides of the same coin?

abstract：:Phloem transport of endogenous macromolecules and plant viruses remains poorly understood. Selective movement into and out of the phloem is tightly regulated, yet the mechanisms governing this selectivity have not been elucidated. Recent advances in identifying nonviral proteins and nucleic acids with the capacity for...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Santa Cruz S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila secretes over 300 effector proteins that manipulate host cells. This multiplicity of effectors hampers the characterization of their individual roles. Shames et al. report a new approach to solve the enigma of Legionella effector function by using INSeq to analyse effector functions in the conte...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Rolando M,Buchrieser C

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is commonly assumed that Darwin had nothing to say about microbes, he did in fact say quite a lot. He included microbes in his Beagle studies of the geographical distribution of organisms and used microscopic organisms as explicit exemplars of how adaptation did not imply increasing complexity. Darwin ofte...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： O'Malley MA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence of many bacterial pathogens is based, at least in part, on the action of phospholipases. The consequences may be immediate and direct, as in the action of Clostridium perfringens alpha toxin on red cells or platelets, or subtle, as with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipases of Listeria monocytogenes a...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Songer JG

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal infections are a major cause of mortality in immunocompromised patients. By using high-resolution sequencing, Zhai et al. provide insight into translocation of Candida strains from the gut mycobiota to the bloodstream of transplanted patients. Microbiota-driven diagnostic methods could rapidly emerge f...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Papon N,Bougnoux ME,d'Enfert C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As plastic debris in the environment continues to increase, an emerging concern is the potential for microplastic to act as vectors for pathogen transport. With aquaculture the fastest growing food sector, and microplastic contamination of shellfish increasingly demonstrated, understanding any risk of pathogen transpo...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Bowley J,Baker-Austin C,Porter A,Hartnell R,Lewis C

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of microbial communities within the gastrointestinal tract during early life plays a critical role in immune, endocrine, metabolic, and other host developmental pathways. Environmental insults during this period, such as food insecurity and infections, can disrupt this optimal microbial succession, which ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Robertson RC,Manges AR,Finlay BB,Prendergast AJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, Ca(2+) is implicated in a wide variety of cellular processes, including the cell cycle and cell division. Dedicated influx and efflux systems tightly control the low cytoplasmic Ca(2+) levels in prokaryotes. Additionally, the growing number of proteins containing various Ca(2+)-binding motifs supports the...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Michiels J,Xi C,Verhaert J,Vanderleyden J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RIG-I-like receptors detect cytosolic viral RNA and activate an antiviral innate immune response. A new study employs the one STrEP-purification technique and next generation sequencing to characterize physiological ligands in an infected cell. The view of all three RLRs bound to viral RNAs shows specialization, colla...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Lässig C,Hopfner KP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent American successes against poliomyelitis and measles have been attributed to repeated 'pulse' vaccination campaigns. Whilst logistic and economic constraints will be crucial, a deeper epidemiological understanding of the mechanism, strengths and weaknesses of pulse vaccination will optimize the chances of succe...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Nokes DJ,Swinton J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances have been made in recent years in our understanding of how methicillin resistance is acquired by Staphylococcus aureus. Integration of a staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) element into the chromosome converts drug-sensitive S. aureus into the notorious hospital pathogen methicilin-res...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Hiramatsu K,Cui L,Kuroda M,Ito T

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis is of huge importance as it underpins the success of coral reefs, yet we know very little about how the host cnidarian and its dinoflagellate endosymbionts communicate with each other to form a functionally integrated unit. Here, we review the current knowledge of interpartner mo...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Rosset SL,Oakley CA,Ferrier-Pagès C,Suggett DJ,Weis VM,Davy SK

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin cytoskeleton plays a key role during the replication cycle of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1). HIV-1 infection is affected by cellular proteins that influence the clustering of viral receptors or the subcortical actin cytoskeleton. Several of these actin-adaptor proteins are controlled by the second m...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Rocha-Perugini V,Gordon-Alonso M,Sánchez-Madrid F

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification and quantification of the proteins that a whole organism expresses under certain conditions is a main focus of high-throughput proteomics. Advanced proteomics approaches generate new biologically relevant data and potent hypotheses. A practical report of what proteome studies can and cannot accompli...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Kolker E,Higdon R,Hogan JM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No curative drug against HIV has yet been found, despite enormous efforts aimed at reverse transcriptase and a variety of other targets. The long terminal repeat (LTR) of HIV-1 has recently become a promising site for antiviral action. This article briefly summarizes information on the nature of this target and potent...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Li CJ,Dezube BJ,Biswas DK,Ahlers CM,Pardee AB

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entomopathogenic fungi are attracting attention as potential biological control agents of insect pests. The mechanisms of pathogenesis have parallels with those of some plant-pathogenic fungi, particularly in the areas of formation of an infection structure, entry into the host and toxin-mediated host death. Understan...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Clarkson JM,Charnley AK

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years, there has been controversy over the role of antibodies in immunity to Candida, but recently specific antibodies to mannoproteins and hsp90 have been shown to be protective against murine candidiasis. Combined with technical advances in antibody engineering, this raises the possibility of harnessing suc...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Matthews R,Burnie J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of pathogenic bacteria by mammalian hosts is largely mediated by membrane-bound Toll-like receptors (TLRs). Recently, a family of cytosolic proteins, termed NODs, with homology to plant disease-resistance gene products has been implicated in sensing microbes within the cytosol. The role of NOD family membe...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Chamaillard M,Inohara N,Nuñez G

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus populations in infected individuals consist of quasispecies with diverse mutations. These quasispecies have different biological properties, and the analysis of these variants has led to new interpretations of viral persistence, carcinogenesis and resistance to interferon therapy. ...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Enomoto N,Sato C

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogens are dependent on virulence factors to efficiently colonize and propagate within their hosts. Many Gram-negative bacterial pathogens rely on specialized proteinaceous secretion systems that inject virulence factors, termed effectors, directly into host cells. These bacterial effector proteins perfor...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Shames SR,Finlay BB

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular pathogens customize the composition and function of the vacuoles they occupy, and can arrest or distort vacuolar maturation. In doubly infected cells, vacuoles that contain two different parasites can be used to test for exclusionary mechanisms, for expression of vacuolar phenotypes that permit or restri...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Rabinovitch M,Veras PS

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome research has undergone astonishing progress in recent years. Crystal structures have shed light on the functional properties of the translation machinery and revealed how the striking architecture of the ribosome is ingeniously designed as the framework for its unique capabilities: precise decoding, substrate...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Bashan A,Yonath A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A holistic approach to understanding the mechanisms by which stress influences the pathogenesis of infectious disease has resulted in the development of the field of microbial endocrinology. This transdisciplinary field represents the intersection of microbiology with mammalian endocrinology and neurophysiology, and i...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Freestone PP,Sandrini SM,Haigh RD,Lyte M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous observations have established a crucial role for phagocytic cells in host resistance to Salmonella. Activated macrophages rely on a complex array of oxygen-dependent antimicrobial molecules to inhibit or kill intracellular Salmonella. An initial oxidative bactericidal phase, which is dependent on the respirat...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Vazquez-Torres A,Fang FC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 evades antibody-mediated neutralization in many cunning ways. The recent structural characterization of a conserved neutralization epitope on the envelope glycoprotein complex (Env) provides clues to the vulnerabilities of the virus. We discuss these observations and explain their relevance for HIV-1 vaccine des...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Eggink D,Melchers M,Sanders RW

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cases of candidiasis have been attributed to Candida albicans, but Candida glabrata, Candida parapsilosis and Candida tropicalis, designated as non-C. albicans Candida (NCAC), have been identified as frequent human pathogens. Moreover, Candida biofilms are an escalating clinical problem associated with significan...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Araújo D,Henriques M,Silva S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several times in this century, new and sometimes devastating diseases of cereal crops, caused by fungi in the genus Cochliobolus, have suddenly appeared. In many fungal diseases of plants the factors required for pathogenicity are unknown; in contrast, the key elements in each of several Cochliobolus diseases are know...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Panaccione DG

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive immunization studies, including a recent one by Pegu et al., have repeatedly shown that HIV-specific broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) protect rhesus macaques from HIV acquisition. In vitro neutralization potency and in vivo protection correlate very strongly, supporting the quest for an HIV vaccine that...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： van Gils MJ,Sanders RW

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following pair of articles, the first by Gil Segal and Howard Shuman, and the second by James Kirby and Ralph Isberg (Trends Microbiol. 6, 256-258), explore the genetics and function of the icm/dot genes of Legionella pneumophila. This gene family is implicated in several aspects of virulence and appears to consti...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Segal G,Shuman HA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of quality control mechanisms to stall developmental pathways or completely remove defective cells from a population is a widespread strategy to ensure the integrity of morphogenetic programs. Endospore formation (sporulation) is a well conserved microbial developmental strategy in the Firmicutes phylum wherei...

journal_title：Trends in microbiology

authors： Decker AR,Ramamurthi KS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00