abstract：:PML (Promyelocytic Leukemia protein), also known as TRIM19, belongs to the family of tripartite motif (TRIM) proteins. PML is mainly expressed in the nucleus, where it forms dynamic structures known as PML nuclear bodies that recruit many other proteins, such as Sp100 and Daxx. While the role of PML/TRIM19 in antivira...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dutrieux J,Maarifi G,Portilho DM,Arhel NJ,Chelbi-Alix MK,Nisole S

更新日期：2015-11-13 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：:The apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum, possesses a bacterial-type lactate dehydrogenase (CpLDH). This is considered to be an essential enzyme, as this parasite lacks the Krebs cycle and cytochrome-based respiration, and mainly-if not solely, relies on glycolysis to produce ATP. Here, we provide evidence that in ext...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zhang H,Guo F,Zhu G

更新日期：2015-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytopathogenic ascomycete fungi possess huge effector repertoires that are dominated by hundreds of sequence-unrelated small secreted proteins. The molecular function of these effectors and the evolutionary mechanisms that generate this tremendous number of singleton genes are largely unknown. To get a deeper underst...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Guillen K,Ortiz-Vallejo D,Gracy J,Fournier E,Kroj T,Padilla A

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Betanodaviruses cause massive mortality in marine fish species with viral nervous necrosis. The structure of a T = 3 Grouper nervous necrosis virus-like particle (GNNV-LP) is determined by the ab initio method with non-crystallographic symmetry averaging at 3.6 Å resolution. Each capsid protein (CP) shows three major ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Chen NC,Yoshimura M,Guan HH,Wang TY,Misumi Y,Lin CC,Chuankhayan P,Nakagawa A,Chan SI,Tsukihara T,Chen TY,Chen CJ

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a dsDNA, enveloped virus, is a ubiquitous pathogen that establishes lifelong latent infections and caused disease in persons with compromised immune systems, e.g., organ transplant recipients or AIDS patients. HCMV is also a leading cause of congenital viral infections in newborns. Entry ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Burke HG,Heldwein EE

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:SAMHD1 restricts HIV-1 infection of myeloid-lineage and resting CD4+ T-cells. Most likely this occurs through deoxynucleoside triphosphate triphosphohydrolase activity that reduces cellular dNTP to a level where reverse transcriptase cannot function, although alternative mechanisms have been proposed recently. Here, w...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Arnold LH,Groom HC,Kunzelmann S,Schwefel D,Caswell SJ,Ordonez P,Mann MC,Rueschenbaum S,Goldstone DC,Pennell S,Howell SA,Stoye JP,Webb M,Taylor IA,Bishop KN

更新日期：2015-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardioviruses, including encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) and the human Saffold virus, are small non-enveloped viruses belonging to the Picornaviridae, a large family of positive-sense RNA [(+)RNA] viruses. All (+)RNA viruses remodel intracellular membranes into unique structures for viral genome replication. Accumul...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dorobantu CM,Albulescu L,Harak C,Feng Q,van Kampen M,Strating JR,Gorbalenya AE,Lohmann V,van der Schaar HM,van Kuppeveld FJ

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse polyomavirus (MPyV) lytically infects mouse cells, transforms rat cells in culture, and is highly oncogenic in rodents. We have used deep sequencing to follow MPyV infection of mouse NIH3T6 cells at various times after infection and analyzed both the viral and cellular transcriptomes. Alignment of sequencing rea...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Garren SB,Kondaveeti Y,Duff MO,Carmichael GG

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinia virus A33 is an extracellular enveloped virus (EEV)-specific type II membrane glycoprotein that is essential for efficient EEV formation and long-range viral spread within the host. A33 is a target for neutralizing antibody responses against EEV. In this study, we produced seven murine anti-A33 monoclonal ant...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Matho MH,Schlossman A,Meng X,Benhnia MR,Kaever T,Buller M,Doronin K,Parker S,Peters B,Crotty S,Xiang Y,Zajonc DM

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant pathogens secrete an arsenal of effector proteins to impair host immunity. Some effectors possess enzymatic activities that can modify their host targets. Previously, we demonstrated that a Phytophthora sojae RXLR effector Avr3b acts as a Nudix hydrolase when expressed in planta; and this enzymatic activity is r...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kong G,Zhao Y,Jing M,Huang J,Yang J,Xia Y,Kong L,Ye W,Xiong Q,Qiao Y,Dong S,Ma W,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-08-28 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：:Antiretroviral therapy, antibody and CD8+ T cell-mediated responses targeting human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) exert selection pressure on the virus necessitating escape; however, the ability of CD4+ T cells to exert selective pressure remains unclear. Using a computational approach on HIV gag/pol/nef sequences ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Erdmann N,Du VY,Carlson J,Schaefer M,Jureka A,Sterrett S,Yue L,Dilernia D,Lakhi S,Tang J,Sidney J,Gilmour J,Allen S,Hunter E,Heath S,Bansal A,Goepfert PA

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichodysplasia spinulosa-associated Polyomavirus (TSPyV) was isolated from a patient suffering from trichodysplasia spinulosa, a skin disease that can appear in severely immunocompromised patients. While TSPyV is one of the five members of the polyomavirus family that are directly linked to a human disease, details a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ströh LJ,Gee GV,Blaum BS,Dugan AS,Feltkamp MC,Atwood WJ,Stehle T

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), caused by Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), is a highly vascularised tumour of endothelial origin. KSHV infected endothelial cells show increased invasiveness and angiogenesis. Here, we report that the KSHV K15 protein, which we showed previously to contribute to KSHV-induced angiogenesis, is...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Gramolelli S,Weidner-Glunde M,Abere B,Viejo-Borbolla A,Bala K,Rückert J,Kremmer E,Schulz TF

更新日期：2015-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaginal HIV transmission accounts for the majority of new infections worldwide. Currently, multiple efforts to prevent HIV transmission are based on pre-exposure prophylaxis with various antiretroviral drugs. Here, we describe two novel nanoformulations of the reverse transcriptase inhibitor rilpivirine for pericoital...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kovarova M,Council OD,Date AA,Long JM,Nochi T,Belshan M,Shibata A,Vincent H,Baker CE,Thayer WO,Kraus G,Lachaud-Durand S,Williams P,Destache CJ,Garcia JV

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1992 onwards, outbreaks of a previously unknown illness have been reported in Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) kept in maricultures in Southeast Asia. The most striking symptom of this emerging disease is the loss of scales. It was referred to as scale drop syndrome, but the etiology remained enigmatic. By using ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Groof A,Guelen L,Deijs M,van der Wal Y,Miyata M,Ng KS,van Grinsven L,Simmelink B,Biermann Y,Grisez L,van Lent J,de Ronde A,Chang SF,Schrier C,van der Hoek L

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike the pandemic form of HIV-1 (group M), group O viruses are endemic in west central Africa, especially in Cameroon. However, little is known about group O's genetic evolution, and why this highly divergent lineage has not become pandemic. Using a unique and large set of group O sequences from samples collected fr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Leoz M,Feyertag F,Kfutwah A,Mauclère P,Lachenal G,Damond F,De Oliveira F,Lemée V,Simon F,Robertson DL,Plantier JC

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In prion diseases, synapse dysfunction, axon retraction and loss of neuronal polarity precede neuronal death. The mechanisms driving such polarization defects, however, remain unclear. Here, we examined the contribution of RhoA-associated coiled-coil containing kinases (ROCK), key players in neuritogenesis, to prion d...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Alleaume-Butaux A,Nicot S,Pietri M,Baudry A,Dakowski C,Tixador P,Ardila-Osorio H,Haeberlé AM,Bailly Y,Peyrin JM,Launay JM,Kellermann O,Schneider B

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect immune systems can recognize specific pathogens and prime offspring immunity. High specificity of immune priming can be achieved when insect females transfer immune elicitors into developing oocytes. The molecular mechanism behind this transfer has been a mystery. Here, we establish that the egg-yolk protein vi...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Salmela H,Amdam GV,Freitak D

更新日期：2015-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA helicases and chaperones are the two major classes of RNA remodeling proteins, which function to remodel RNA structures and/or RNA-protein interactions, and are required for all aspects of RNA metabolism. Although some virus-encoded RNA helicases/chaperones have been predicted or identified, their RNA remodeling a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Xia H,Wang P,Wang GC,Yang J,Sun X,Wu W,Qiu Y,Shu T,Zhao X,Yin L,Qin CF,Hu Y,Zhou X

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent linkage to members of the small ubiquitin-like (SUMO) family of proteins is an important mechanism by which the functions of many cellular proteins are regulated. Sumoylation has roles in the control of protein stability, activity and localization, and is involved in the regulation of transcription, gene expr...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sloan E,Tatham MH,Groslambert M,Glass M,Orr A,Hay RT,Everett RD

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-known histopathological feature of diseased skin in Buruli ulcer (BU) is coagulative necrosis caused by the Mycobacterium ulcerans macrolide exotoxin mycolactone. Since the underlying mechanism is not known, we have investigated the effect of mycolactone on endothelial cells, focussing on the expression of surf...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Ogbechi J,Ruf MT,Hall BS,Bodman-Smith K,Vogel M,Wu HL,Stainer A,Esmon CT,Ahnström J,Pluschke G,Simmonds RE

更新日期：2015-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesviruses encode a characteristic serine protease with a unique fold and an active site that comprises the unusual triad Ser-His-His. The protease is essential for viral replication and as such constitutes a promising drug target. In solution, a dynamic equilibrium exists between an inactive monomeric and an activ...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Zühlsdorf M,Werten S,Klupp BG,Palm GJ,Mettenleiter TC,Hinrichs W

更新日期：2015-07-10 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：:Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infects about 50% of the US population, is the leading infectious cause of birth defects, and is considered the most important infectious agent in transplant recipients. The virus infects many cell types in vivo and in vitro. While previous studies have identified several cellular proteins...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Li Q,Wilkie AR,Weller M,Liu X,Cohen JI

更新日期：2015-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjunctive vitamin D treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis enhances resolution of inflammation but has modest effects on bacterial clearance. Sodium 4-phenylbutyrate (PBA) is in clinical use for a range of conditions and has been shown to synergise with vitamin D metabolites to upregulate cathelicidin antimicrobial pep...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Coussens AK,Wilkinson RJ,Martineau AR

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV Nef acts as an anti-autophagic maturation factor through interaction with beclin-1 (BECN1). We report that exposure of macrophages to infectious or non-infectious purified HIV induces toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) and BECN1 dependent dephosphorylation and nuclear translocation of TFEB and that this correlates with a...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Campbell GR,Rawat P,Bruckman RS,Spector SA

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to complete their life cycle, papillomaviruses have evolved to manipulate a plethora of cellular pathways. The products of the human Alphapapillomavirus E6 proteins specifically interact with and target PDZ containing proteins for degradation. This viral phenotype has been suggested to play a role in viral on...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Van Doorslaer K,DeSalle R,Einstein MH,Burk RD

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous human γ-herpesvirus that can give rise to cancers of both B-cell and epithelial cell origin. In EBV-induced cancers of epithelial origin, including nasopharyngeal carcinomas (NPCs) and gastric carcinomas, the latent EBV genome expresses very high levels of a cluster of 22 viral...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Kang D,Skalsky RL,Cullen BR

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Eliciting broad tier 2 neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) is a major goal of HIV-1 vaccine research. Here we investigated the ability of native, membrane-expressed JR-FL Env trimers to elicit nAbs. Unusually potent nAb titers developed in 2 of 8 rabbits immunized with virus-like particles (VLPs) expressing trimers (trimer...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Crooks ET,Tong T,Chakrabarti B,Narayan K,Georgiev IS,Menis S,Huang X,Kulp D,Osawa K,Muranaka J,Stewart-Jones G,Destefano J,O'Dell S,LaBranche C,Robinson JE,Montefiori DC,McKee K,Du SX,Doria-Rose N,Kwong PD,Mascola

更新日期：2015-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoT induces potent apoptosis in host epithelial cells in a manner that primarily depends on its ADP-ribosyltransferase domain (ADPRT) activity. However, the mechanism underlying ExoT/ADPRT-induced apoptosis remains undetermined. We now report that ExoT/ADPRT dis...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Wood S,Goldufsky J,Shafikhani SH

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the HSV-1 life cycle is carried out in the cell nucleus, including the expression, replication, repair, and packaging of viral genomes. Viral proteins, as well as cellular factors, play essential roles in these processes. Isolation of proteins on nascent DNA (iPOND) was developed to label and purify cellular r...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dembowski JA,DeLuca NA

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction systems (TCS) are used by bacteria to sense and respond to their environment. TCS are typically composed of a sensor histidine kinase (HK) and a response regulator (RR). The Vibrio cholerae genome encodes 52 RR, but the role of these RRs in V. cholerae pathogenesis is largely unknown....

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Cheng AT,Ottemann KM,Yildiz FH

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to Plasmodium falciparum is associated with circulating "atypical" memory B cells (atMBCs), which appear similar to dysfunctional B cells found in HIV-infected individuals. Functional analysis of atMBCs has been limited, with one report suggesting these cells are not dysfunctional but produce protective antib...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Sullivan RT,Kim CC,Fontana MF,Feeney ME,Jagannathan P,Boyle MJ,Drakeley CJ,Ssewanyana I,Nankya F,Mayanja-Kizza H,Dorsey G,Greenhouse B

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonic plague is a fatal disease caused by Yersinia pestis that is associated with a delayed immune response in the lungs. Because neutrophils are the first immune cells recruited to sites of infection, we investigated the mechanisms responsible for their delayed homing to the lung. During the first 24 hr after pul...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Vagima Y,Zauberman A,Levy Y,Gur D,Tidhar A,Aftalion M,Shafferman A,Mamroud E

更新日期：2015-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the mechanism of action of trypanocidal compounds is an important step in the development of more efficient drugs against Trypanosoma brucei. In a screening approach using an RNAi library in T. brucei bloodstream forms, we identified a member of the mitochondrial carrier family, TbMCP14, as a prime candida...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： de Macêdo JP,Schumann Burkard G,Niemann M,Barrett MP,Vial H,Mäser P,Roditi I,Schneider A,Bütikofer P

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mosquito-borne flaviviruses are among the most significant arboviral pathogens worldwide. Vaccinations and mosquito population control programs remain the most reliable means for flavivirus disease prevention, and live attenuated viruses remain one of the most attractive flavivirus vaccine platforms. Some live attenua...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tsetsarkin KA,Liu G,Kenney H,Bustos-Arriaga J,Hanson CT,Whitehead SS,Pletnev AG

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic bacterial infections of the lung are life threatening and underpin chronic lung diseases. Current treatments are often ineffective potentially due to increasing antibiotic resistance and impairment of innate immunity by disease processes and steroid therapy. Manipulation miRNA directly regulating anti-micro...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Tay HL,Kaiko GE,Plank M,Li J,Maltby S,Essilfie AT,Jarnicki A,Yang M,Mattes J,Hansbro PM,Foster PS

更新日期：2015-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In many bacteria, inhibition of cell wall synthesis leads to cell death and lysis. The pathways and enzymes that mediate cell lysis after exposure to cell wall-acting antibiotics (e.g. beta lactams) are incompletely understood, but the activities of enzymes that degrade the cell wall ('autolysins') are thought to be c...

journal_title：PLoS pathogens

authors： Dörr T,Davis BM,Waldor MK

更新日期：2015-04-17 00:00:00