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：: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：:Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains in Toll-like receptors are essential for initiating and propagating the eukaryotic innate immune signaling cascade. Here, we investigate TirS, a Staphylococcus aureus TIR mimic that is part of a novel bacterial invasion mechanism. Its ectopic expression in eukaryotic cells inh...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Patot S,Imbert PR,Baude J,Martins Simões P,Campergue JB,Louche A,Nijland R,Bès M,Tristan A,Laurent F,Fischer A,Schrenzel J,Vandenesch F,Salcedo SP,François P,Lina G

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful treatment of aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus fumigatus is threatened by an increasing incidence of drug resistance. This situation is further complicated by the finding that strains resistant to azoles, the major antifungal drugs for aspergillosis, have been widely disseminated across the globe. To eluc...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Hagiwara D,Miura D,Shimizu K,Paul S,Ohba A,Gonoi T,Watanabe A,Kamei K,Shintani T,Moye-Rowley WS,Kawamoto S,Gomi K

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of Ebola virus (EBOV) infection has been demonstrated in vitro, raising concerns about the detrimental potential of some anti-EBOV antibodies. ADE has been described for many viruses and mostly depends on the cross-linking of virus-antibody complexes to cell surface Fc receptors, l...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Furuyama W,Marzi A,Carmody AB,Maruyama J,Kuroda M,Miyamoto H,Nanbo A,Manzoor R,Yoshida R,Igarashi M,Feldmann H,Takada A

更新日期：2016-12-30 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：: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：:Bacterial type III protein secretion systems inject effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells in order to promote survival and colonization of Gram-negative pathogens and symbionts. Secretion across the bacterial cell envelope and injection into host cells is facilitated by a so-called injectisome. Its small hydrop...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dietsche T,Tesfazgi Mebrhatu M,Brunner MJ,Abrusci P,Yan J,Franz-Wachtel M,Schärfe C,Zilkenat S,Grin I,Galán JE,Kohlbacher O,Lea S,Macek B,Marlovits TC,Robinson CV,Wagner S

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of mosquito populations with insecticide treated bed nets and indoor residual sprays remains the cornerstone of malaria reduction and elimination programs. In light of widespread insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, however, alternative strategies for reducing transmission by the mosquito vector are urgen...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Childs LM,Cai FY,Kakani EG,Mitchell SN,Paton D,Gabrieli P,Buckee CO,Catteruccia F

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4+ T cells support host defence against herpesviruses and other viral pathogens. We identified that CD4+ T cells from systemic and mucosal tissues of hosts infected with the β-herpesviridae human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) or murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) express the regulatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-10. IL-10+CD4+ T...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Clement M,Marsden M,Stacey MA,Abdul-Karim J,Gimeno Brias S,Costa Bento D,Scurr MJ,Ghazal P,Weaver CT,Carlesso G,Clare S,Jones SA,Godkin A,Jones GW,Humphreys IR

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis (Ft) causes a frequently fatal, acute necrotic pneumonia in humans and animals. Following lethal Ft infection in mice, infiltration of the lungs by predominantly immature myeloid cells and subsequent myeloid cell death drive pathogenesis and host mortality. However, following sub-lethal Ft chall...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Periasamy S,Le HT,Duffy EB,Chin H,Harton JA

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic regulation of leukocyte population size and activation state is crucial for an effective immune response. In malaria, Plasmodium parasites elicit robust host expansion of macrophages and monocytes, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here we show that myeloid expansion during P. chabaudi infection is...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Fontana MF,de Melo GL,Anidi C,Hamburger R,Kim CY,Lee SY,Pham J,Kim CC

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Abilities of bacterial pathogens to adapt to the iron limitation present in hosts is critical to their virulence. Bacterial pathogens have evolved diverse strategies to coordinately regulate iron metabolism and virulence associated functions to maintain iron homeostasis in response to changing iron availability in the...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Pandey SS,Patnana PK,Lomada SK,Tomar A,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 maturation inhibitors (MIs) disrupt the final step in the HIV-1 protease-mediated cleavage of the Gag polyprotein between capsid p24 capsid (CA) and spacer peptide 1 (SP1), leading to the production of infectious virus. BMS-955176 is a second generation MI with improved antiviral activity toward polymorphic Gag ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Lin Z,Cantone J,Lu H,Nowicka-Sans B,Protack T,Yuan T,Yang H,Liu Z,Drexler D,Regueiro-Ren A,Meanwell NA,Cockett M,Krystal M,Lataillade M,Dicker IB

更新日期：2016-11-28 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：:HIV-1 entry can be inhibited by soluble peptides from the gp41 heptad repeat-2 (HR2) domain that interfere with formation of the 6-helix bundle during fusion. Inhibition has also been seen when these peptides are conjugated to anchoring molecules and over-expressed on the cell surface. We hypothesized that potent anti...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Leslie GJ,Wang J,Richardson MW,Haggarty BS,Hua KL,Duong J,Secreto AJ,Jordon AP,Romano J,Kumar KE,DeClercq JJ,Gregory PD,June CH,Root MJ,Riley JL,Holmes MC,Hoxie JA

更新日期：2016-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Spumaretrovirinae, or foamy viruses (FVs) are complex retroviruses that infect many species of monkey and ape. Despite little sequence homology, FV and orthoretroviral Gag proteins perform equivalent functions, including genome packaging, virion assembly, trafficking and membrane targeting. However, there is a pau...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ball NJ,Nicastro G,Dutta M,Pollard DJ,Goldstone DC,Sanz-Ramos M,Ramos A,Müllers E,Stirnnagel K,Stanke N,Lindemann D,Stoye JP,Taylor WR,Rosenthal PB,Taylor IA

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

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：:Mycobacterium abscessus is considered the most common respiratory pathogen among the rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria. Infections with M. abscessus are increasingly found in patients with chronic lung diseases, especially cystic fibrosis, and are often refractory to antibiotic therapy. M. abscessus has two...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Bernut A,Nguyen-Chi M,Halloum I,Herrmann JL,Lutfalla G,Kremer L

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematode parasites secrete molecules which regulate the mammalian immune system, but their genetic intractability is a major impediment to identifying and characterising the biological effects of these molecules. We describe here a novel system for heterologous expression of helminth secreted proteins in the natural p...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vaux R,Schnoeller C,Berkachy R,Roberts LB,Hagen J,Gounaris K,Selkirk ME

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hendra and Nipah viruses (family Paramyxoviridae, genus Henipavirus) are bat-borne viruses that cause fatal disease in humans and a range of other mammalian species. Gaining a deeper understanding of host pathways exploited by henipaviruses for infection may identify targets for new anti-viral therapies. Here we have ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Foo CH,Rootes CL,Cowley K,Marsh GA,Gould CM,Deffrasnes C,Cowled CJ,Klein R,Riddell SJ,Middleton D,Simpson KJ,Wang LF,Bean AG,Stewart CR

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytosis is an ancient mechanism central to both tissue homeostasis and immune defense. Both the identity of the receptors that mediate bacterial phagocytosis and the nature of the interactions between phagocytosis and other defense mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we report that Croquemort (Crq), a Drosophila mem...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Guillou A,Troha K,Wang H,Franc NC,Buchon N

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:IFI16 (gamma-interferon-inducible protein 16), a predominantly nuclear protein involved in transcriptional regulation, also functions as an innate immune response DNA sensor and induces the IL-1β and antiviral type-1 interferon-β (IFN-β) cytokines. We have shown that IFI16, in association with BRCA1, functions as a se...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Iqbal J,Ansari MA,Kumar B,Dutta D,Roy A,Chikoti L,Pisano G,Dutta S,Vahedi S,Veettil MV,Chandran B

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaporthe oryzae, the fungus causing rice blast disease, should contend with host innate immunity to develop invasive hyphae (IH) within living host cells. However, molecular strategies to establish the biotrophic interactions are largely unknown. Here, we report the biological function of a M. oryzae-specific gene,...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Nishimura T,Mochizuki S,Ishii-Minami N,Fujisawa Y,Kawahara Y,Yoshida Y,Okada K,Ando S,Matsumura H,Terauchi R,Minami E,Nishizawa Y

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory condition of diverse etiology. Exposure to foodborne pathogens causing acute gastroenteritis produces a long-term risk of CD well into the post-infectious period but the mechanistic basis for this ongoing relationship to disease onset is unknown. We developed two novel mo...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Small CL,Xing L,McPhee JB,Law HT,Coombes BK

更新日期：2016-10-06 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：:Current understanding of adaptive immune, particularly T cell, responses to human rhinoviruses (RV) is limited. Memory T cells are thought to be of a primarily T helper 1 type, but both T helper 1 and T helper 2 memory cells have been described, and heightened T helper 2/ lessened T helper 1 responses have been associ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Glanville N,Peel TJ,Schröder A,Aniscenko J,Walton RP,Finotto S,Johnston SL

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramyxovirus spread generally involves assembly of individual viral particles which then infect target cells. We show that infection of human bronchial airway cells with human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a recently identified paramyxovirus which causes significant respiratory disease, results in formation of intercellula...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： El Najjar F,Cifuentes-Muñoz N,Chen J,Zhu H,Buchholz UJ,Moncman CL,Dutch RE

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia are maternally transmitted intracellular bacterial symbionts that infect approximately 40% of all insect species. Though several strains of Wolbachia naturally infect Drosophila melanogaster and provide resistance against viral pathogens, or provision metabolites during periods of nutritional stress, one vir...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rohrscheib CE,Frentiu FD,Horn E,Ritchie FK,van Swinderen B,Weible MW 2nd,O'Neill SL,Brownlie JC

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A subset of high-risk Human Papillomaviruses (HPVs) are the causative agents of a large number of human cancers, of which cervical is the most common. Two viral oncoproteins, E6 and E7, contribute directly towards the development and maintenance of malignancy. A characteristic feature of the E6 oncoproteins from cance...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ganti K,Massimi P,Manzo-Merino J,Tomaić V,Pim D,Playford MP,Lizano M,Roberts S,Kranjec C,Doorbar J,Banks L

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the infectious prion protein (PrPSc), which is responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has escaped all attempts at elucidation due to its insolubility and propensity to aggregate. PrPSc replicates by converting the non-infectious, cellular prion protei...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vázquez-Fernández E,Vos MR,Afanasyev P,Cebey L,Sevillano AM,Vidal E,Rosa I,Renault L,Ramos A,Peters PJ,Fernández JJ,van Heel M,Young HS,Requena JR,Wille H

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The life long relationship between herpes simplex virus and its host hinges on the ability of the virus to aggressively replicate in epithelial cells at the site of infection and transport into the nervous system through axons innervating the infection site. Interaction between the virus and the sensory neuron represe...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sawtell NM,Thompson RL

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of Francisella tularensis, the etiological agent of tularemia, relies on an atypical type VI secretion system (T6SS) encoded by a genomic island termed the Francisella Pathogenicity Island (FPI). While the importance of the FPI in F. tularensis virulence is clearly established, the precise role of most o...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Rigard M,Bröms JE,Mosnier A,Hologne M,Martin A,Lindgren L,Punginelli C,Lays C,Walker O,Charbit A,Telouk P,Conlan W,Terradot L,Sjöstedt A,Henry T

更新日期：2016-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike for other retroviruses, only a few host cell factors that aid the replication of foamy viruses (FVs) via interaction with viral structural components are known. Using a yeast-two-hybrid (Y2H) screen with prototype FV (PFV) Gag protein as bait we identified human polo-like kinase 2 (hPLK2), a member of cell cycl...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zurnic I,Hütter S,Rzeha U,Stanke N,Reh J,Müllers E,Hamann MV,Kern T,Gerresheim GK,Lindel F,Serrao E,Lesbats P,Engelman AN,Cherepanov P,Lindemann D

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005822.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Abdelrahman Y,Ouellette SP,Belland RJ,Cox JV

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear lamina lines the inner nuclear membrane providing a structural framework for the nucleus. Cellular processes, such as nuclear envelope breakdown during mitosis or nuclear export of large ribonucleoprotein complexes, are functionally linked to the disassembly of the nuclear lamina. In general, lamina disass...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Milbradt J,Hutterer C,Bahsi H,Wagner S,Sonntag E,Horn AH,Kaufer BB,Mori Y,Sticht H,Fossen T,Marschall M

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The bunyavirus genome comprises a small (S), medium (M), and large (L) RNA segment of negative polarity. Although genome segmentation confers evolutionary advantages by enabling genome reassortment events with related viruses, genome segmentation also complicates genome replication and packaging. Accumulating evidence...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wichgers Schreur PJ,Kortekaas J

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The APOBEC3 (A3) cytidine deaminases are antiretroviral proteins, whose targets include human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1). Their incorporation into viral particles is critical for antiviral activity and is driven by interactions with the RNA molecules that are packaged into virions. However, it is unclear wh...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： York A,Kutluay SB,Errando M,Bieniasz PD

更新日期：2016-08-19 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：:Bacterial cell division predominantly occurs by a highly conserved process, termed binary fission, that requires the bacterial homologue of tubulin, FtsZ. Other mechanisms of bacterial cell division that are independent of FtsZ are rare. Although the obligate intracellular human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis, the lea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Abdelrahman Y,Ouellette SP,Belland RJ,Cox JV

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00