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https://read.qxmd.com/read/37738264/binding-of-herpesvirus-entry-mediator-hvem-and-hsv-1-gd-affect-reactivation-but-not-latency-levels
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Ujjaldeep Jaggi, Shaohui Wang, Kevin R Mott, Homayon Ghiasi
Previously we reported that the HSV-1 latency associated transcript (LAT) specifically upregulates the cellular herpesvirus entry mediator (HVEM) but no other known HSV-1 receptors. HSV-1 glycoprotein D (gD) binds to HVEM but the effect of this interaction on latency-reactivation is not known. We found that the levels of latent viral genomes were not affected by the absence of gD binding to HVEM. However, reactivation of latent virus in trigeminal ganglia explant cultures was blocked in the absence of gD binding to HVEM...
September 22, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37738244/bacterial-contact-induces-polar-plug-disintegration-to-mediate-whipworm-egg-hatching
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Amicha Robertson, Joseph Sall, Mericien Venzon, Janet J Olivas, Xuhui Zheng, Michael Cammer, Noelle Antao, Chunyi Zhou, Joseph C Devlin, Rafaela Saes Thur, Jeffrey Bethony, Peter Nejsum, Bo Shopsin, Victor J Torres, Feng-Xia Liang, Ken Cadwell
The bacterial microbiota promotes the life cycle of the intestine-dwelling whipworm Trichuris by mediating hatching of parasite eggs ingested by the mammalian host. Despite the enormous disease burden associated with Trichuris colonization, the mechanisms underlying this transkingdom interaction have been obscure. Here, we used a multiscale microscopy approach to define the structural events associated with bacteria-mediated hatching of eggs for the murine model parasite Trichuris muris. Through the combination of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and serial block face SEM (SBFSEM), we visualized the outer surface morphology of the shell and generated 3D structures of the egg and larva during the hatching process...
September 22, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37733817/vaccine-induced-inflammation-and-inflammatory-monocytes-promote-cd4-t-cell-dependent-immunity-against-murine-salmonellosis
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Nancy Wang, Timothy A Scott, Andreas Kupz, Meghanashree M Shreenivas, Newton G Peres, Dianna M Hocking, Chenying Yang, Leila Jebeli, Lynette Beattie, Joanna R Groom, Thomas P Pierce, Linda M Wakim, Sammy Bedoui, Richard A Strugnell
Prior infection can generate protective immunity against subsequent infection, although the efficacy of such immunity can vary considerably. Live-attenuated vaccines (LAVs) are one of the most effective methods for mimicking this natural process, and analysis of their efficacy has proven instrumental in the identification of protective immune mechanisms. Here, we address the question of what makes a LAV efficacious by characterising immune responses to a LAV, termed TAS2010, which is highly protective (80-90%) against lethal murine salmonellosis, in comparison with a moderately protective (40-50%) LAV, BRD509...
September 21, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37733807/susceptibility-to-zika-virus-in-a-collaborative-cross-mouse-strain-is-induced-by-irf3-deficiency-in-vitro-but-requires-other-variants-in-vivo
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Marie Bourdon, Caroline Manet, Laurine Conquet, Corentin Ramaugé Parra, Etienne Kornobis, Eliette Bonnefoy, Xavier Montagutelli
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a Flavivirus responsible for recent epidemics in Pacific Islands and in the Americas. In humans, the consequences of ZIKV infection range from asymptomatic infection to severe neurological disease such as Guillain-Barré syndrome or fetal neurodevelopmental defects, suggesting, among other factors, the influence of host genetic variants. We previously reported similar diverse outcomes of ZIKV infection in mice of the Collaborative Cross (CC), a collection of inbred strains with large genetic diversity...
September 21, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37721965/interactions-between-b-cells-and-t-follicular-regulatory-cells-enhance-susceptibility-to-brucella-infection-independent-of-the-anti-brucella-humoral-response
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Alexis S Dadelahi, Mostafa F N Abushahba, Bárbara Ponzilacqua-Silva, Catherine A Chambers, Charles R Moley, Carolyn A Lacey, Alexander L Dent, Jerod Skyberg
Brucellosis, caused by facultative, intracellular Brucella spp., often results in chronic and/or lifelong infection. Therefore, Brucella must employ mechanisms to subvert adaptive immunity to cause chronic infection. B lymphocytes enhance susceptibility to infection with Brucella spp. though the mechanisms remain unclear. Here we investigated the role of antibody secretion, B cell receptor (BCR) specificity, and B cell antigen presentation on susceptibility to B. melitensis. We report that mice unable to secrete antibody do not display altered resistance to Brucella...
September 18, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37721955/the-development-of-resistance-to-an-inhibitor-of-a-cellular-protein-reveals-a-critical-interaction-between-the-enterovirus-protein-2c-and-a-small-gtpase-arf1
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Ekaterina G Viktorova, Samuel Gabaglio, Seyedehmahsa Moghimi, Anna Zimina, Bridge G Wynn, Elizabeth Sztul, George A Belov
The cellular protein GBF1, an activator of Arf GTPases (ArfGEF: Arf guanine nucleotide exchange factor), is recruited to the replication organelles of enteroviruses through interaction with the viral protein 3A, and its ArfGEF activity is required for viral replication, however how GBF1-dependent Arf activation supports the infection remains enigmatic. Here, we investigated the development of resistance of poliovirus, a prototype enterovirus, to increasing concentrations of brefeldin A (BFA), an inhibitor of GBF1...
September 18, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37721934/broad-protective-rbd-heterotrimer-vaccines-neutralize-sars-cov-2-including-omicron-sub-variants-xbb-bq-1-1-bf-7
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Yanfang Zhang, Xinrui Kang, Sheng Liu, Pu Han, Wenwen Lei, Ke Xu, Zepeng Xu, Zhengrong Gao, Xuemei Zhou, Yaling An, Yuxuan Han, Kefang Liu, Xin Zhao, Lianpan Dai, Peiyi Wang, Guizhen Wu, Jianxun Qi, Kun Xu, George F Gao
SARS-CoV-2 variants with severe immune evasion are a major challenge for COVID-19 prevention, especially the circulating Omicron XBB/BQ.1.1/BF.7 strains. Thus, the next-generation of broad-spectrum vaccines are urgently needed. Previously, we developed a COVID-19 protein subunit vaccine, ZF2001, based on the RBD-homodimer as the immunogen. To adapt SARS-CoV-2 variants, we developed chimeric RBD-heterodimers to induce broad immune responses. In this study, we further explored the concept of tandem RBD homotrimer and heterotrimer...
September 18, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37713419/the-dual-action-of-human-antibodies-specific-to-plasmodium-falciparum-pfrh5-and-pfcyrpa-blocking-invasion-and-inactivating-extracellular-merozoites
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Greta E Weiss, Robert J Ragotte, Doris Quinkert, Amelia M Lias, Madeline G Dans, Coralie Boulet, Oliver Looker, Olivia D Ventura, Barnabas G Williams, Brendan S Crabb, Simon J Draper, Paul R Gilson
The Plasmodium falciparum reticulocyte-binding protein homolog 5 (PfRH5) is the current leading blood-stage malaria vaccine candidate. PfRH5 functions as part of the pentameric PCRCR complex containing PTRAMP, CSS, PfCyRPA and PfRIPR, all of which are essential for infection of human red blood cells (RBCs). To trigger RBC invasion, PfRH5 engages with RBC protein basigin in a step termed the RH5-basigin binding stage. Although we know increasingly more about how antibodies specific for PfRH5 can block invasion, much less is known about how antibodies recognizing other members of the PCRCR complex can inhibit invasion...
September 15, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37708231/species-specific-cleavage-of-cgas-by-picornavirus-protease-3c-disrupts-mitochondria-dna-mediated-immune-sensing
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Ya Yan, Lei Wu, Ye Yuan, Haiwei Wang, Hongyan Yin, Minjie Li, Lvye Chai, Ruiying Liang, Yanjie Liu, Dongming Zhao, Junji Xing, Pingwei Li, Xin Li
RNA viruses cause numerous infectious diseases in humans and animals. The crosstalk between RNA viruses and the innate DNA sensing pathways attracts increasing attention. Recent studies showed that the cGAS-STING pathway plays an important role in restricting RNA viruses via mitochondria DNA (mtDNA) mediated activation. However, the mechanisms of cGAS mediated innate immune evasion by RNA viruses remain unknown. Here, we report that seneca valley virus (SVV) protease 3C disrupts mtDNA mediated innate immune sensing by cleaving porcine cGAS (pcGAS) in a species-specific manner...
September 14, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37703304/distinct-disease-features-of-acute-and-persistent-genotype-3-hepatitis-e-virus-infection-in-immunocompetent-and-immunosuppressed-mongolian-gerbils
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Sakthivel Subramaniam, Rafaelle Fares-Gusmao, Shinya Sato, John M Cullen, Kazuyo Takeda, Patrizia Farci, David R McGivern
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes self-limited acute hepatitis in immunocompetent individuals and can establish chronic infection in solid organ transplant recipients taking immunosuppressive drugs. A well characterized small animal model is needed to understand HEV pathogenesis. In this study, we established a robust model to study acute and persistent HEV infection using Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) with or without immunosuppression. Gerbils were implanted subcutaneously with continuous release tacrolimus pellet to induce immunosuppression...
September 13, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37703297/noncanonical-rab9a-action-supports-retromer-mediated-endosomal-exit-of-human-papillomavirus-during-virus-entry
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Jeongjoon Choi, Daniel DiMaio
Rab GTPases play key roles in controlling intracellular vesicular transport. GTP-bound Rab proteins support vesicle trafficking. Here, we report that, unlike cellular protein cargos, retromer-mediated delivery of human papillomaviruses (HPV) into the retrograde transport pathway during virus entry is inhibited by Rab9a in its GTP-bound form. Knockdown of Rab9a inhibits HPV entry by modulating the HPV-retromer interaction and impairing retromer-mediated endosome-to-Golgi transport of the incoming virus, resulting in the accumulation of HPV in the endosome...
September 13, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37703280/phage-antibiotic-synergy-cell-filamentation-is-a-key-driver-of-successful-phage-predation
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Julián Bulssico, Irina PapukashvilI, Leon Espinosa, Sylvain Gandon, Mireille Ansaldi
Phages are promising tools to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and as for now, phage therapy is essentially performed in combination with antibiotics. Interestingly, combined treatments including phages and a wide range of antibiotics lead to an increased bacterial killing, a phenomenon called phage-antibiotic synergy (PAS), suggesting that antibiotic-induced changes in bacterial physiology alter the dynamics of phage propagation. Using single-phage and single-cell techniques, each step of the lytic cycle of phage HK620 was studied in E...
September 13, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37703278/adenovirus-protein-vii-binds-the-a-box-of-hmgb1-to-repress-interferon-responses
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Edward A Arnold, Robin J Kaai, Katie Leung, Mia R Brinkley, Laurel E Kelnhofer-Millevolte, Monica S Guo, Daphne C Avgousti
Viruses hijack host proteins to promote infection and dampen host defenses. Adenovirus encodes the multifunctional protein VII that serves both to compact viral genomes inside the virion and disrupt host chromatin. Protein VII binds the abundant nuclear protein high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) and sequesters HMGB1 in chromatin. HMGB1 is an abundant host nuclear protein that can also be released from infected cells as an alarmin to amplify inflammatory responses. By sequestering HMGB1, protein VII prevents its release, thus inhibiting downstream inflammatory signaling...
September 13, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37695784/antimicrobial-mitochondrial-reactive-oxygen-species-induction-by-lung-epithelial-immunometabolic-modulation
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Yongxing Wang, Vikram V Kulkarni, Jezreel Pantaleón García, Miguel M Leiva-Juárez, David L Goldblatt, Fahad Gulraiz, Lisandra Vila Ellis, Jichao Chen, Michael K Longmire, Sri Ramya Donepudi, Philip L Lorenzi, Hao Wang, Lee-Jun Wong, Michael J Tuvim, Scott E Evans
Pneumonia is a worldwide threat, making discovery of novel means to combat lower respiratory tract infection an urgent need. Manipulating the lungs' intrinsic host defenses by therapeutic delivery of certain pathogen-associated molecular patterns protects mice against pneumonia in a reactive oxygen species (ROS)-dependent manner. Here we show that antimicrobial ROS are induced from lung epithelial cells by interactions of CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) with mitochondrial voltage-dependent anion channel 1 (VDAC1)...
September 11, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37695779/a-serpin-gene-from-a-parasitoid-wasp-disrupts-host-immunity-and-exhibits-adaptive-alternative-splicing
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Zhichao Yan, Qi Fang, Jiqiang Song, Lei Yang, Shan Xiao, Jiale Wang, Gongyin Ye
Alternative splicing (AS) is a major source of protein diversity in eukaryotes, but less is known about its evolution compared to gene duplication (GD). How AS and GD interact is also largely understudied. By constructing the evolutionary trajectory of the serpin gene PpSerpin-1 (Pteromalus puparum serpin 1) in parasitoids and other insects, we found that both AS and GD jointly contribute to serpin protein diversity. These two processes are negatively correlated and show divergent features in both protein and regulatory sequences...
September 11, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37695773/adaptive-evolution-in-virulence-effectors-of-the-rice-blast-fungus-pyricularia-oryzae
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Marie Le Naour-Vernet, Florian Charriat, Jérôme Gracy, Sandrine Cros-Arteil, Sébastien Ravel, Florian Veillet, Isabelle Meusnier, André Padilla, Thomas Kroj, Stella Cesari, Pierre Gladieux
Plant pathogens secrete proteins called effectors that target host cellular processes to promote disease. Recently, structural genomics has identified several families of fungal effectors that share a similar three-dimensional structure despite remarkably variable amino-acid sequences and surface properties. To explore the selective forces that underlie the sequence variability of structurally-analogous effectors, we focused on MAX effectors, a structural family of effectors that are major determinants of virulence in the rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae...
September 11, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37683045/replication-cycle-timing-determines-phage-sensitivity-to-a-cytidine-deaminase-toxin-antitoxin-bacterial-defense-system
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Brian Y Hsueh, Micah J Ferrell, Ram Sanath-Kumar, Amber M Bedore, Christopher M Waters
Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are ubiquitous two-gene loci that bacteria use to regulate cellular processes such as phage defense. Here, we demonstrate the mechanism by which a novel type III TA system, avcID, is activated and confers resistance to phage infection. The toxin of the system (AvcD) is a deoxycytidylate deaminase that converts deoxycytidines (dC) to dexoyuridines (dU), while the RNA antitoxin (AvcI) inhibits AvcD activity. We have shown that AvcD deaminated dC nucleotides upon phage infection, but the molecular mechanism that activated AvcD was unknown...
September 8, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37676873/development-of-an-antibody-fused-with-an-antimicrobial-peptide-targeting-pseudomonas-aeruginosa-a-new-approach-to-prevent-and-treat-bacterial-infections
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Kenneth Johnson, James C Delaney, Thomas Guillard, Fany Reffuveille, Jennifer Varin-Simon, Kai Li, Andrew Wollacott, Eric Frapy, Surin Mong, Hamid Tissire, Karthik Viswanathan, Faycal Touti, Gregory J Babcock, Zachary Shriver, Bradley L Pentelute, Obadiah Plante, David Skurnik
The increase in emerging drug resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections is a global concern. In addition, there is growing recognition that compromising the microbiota through the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics can impact long term patient outcomes. Therefore, there is the need to develop new bactericidal strategies to combat Gram-negative infections that would address these specific issues. In this study, we report and characterize one such approach, an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that combines (i) targeting the surface of a specific pathogenic organism through a monoclonal antibody with (ii) the high killing activity of an antimicrobial peptide...
September 7, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37669313/polypharmacology-based-kinome-screen-identifies-new-regulators-of-kshv-reactivation
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Annabel T Olson, Yuqi Kang, Anushka M Ladha, Songli Zhu, Chuan Bian Lim, Behnam Nabet, Michael Lagunoff, Taranjit S Gujral, Adam P Geballe
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) causes several human diseases including Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), a leading cause of cancer in Africa and in patients with AIDS. KS tumor cells harbor KSHV predominantly in a latent form, while typically <5% contain lytic replicating virus. Because both latent and lytic stages likely contribute to cancer initiation and progression, continued dissection of host regulators of this biological switch will provide insights into fundamental pathways controlling the KSHV life cycle and related disease pathogenesis...
September 5, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37669302/coxsackievirus-b3-elicits-a-sex-specific-cd8-t-cell-response-which-protects-female-mice
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Adeeba H Dhalech, Stephanie A Condotta, Aryamav Pattnaik, Caleb Corn, Martin J Richer, Christopher M Robinson
Sex is a significant contributor to the outcome of human infections. Males are frequently more susceptible to viral, bacterial, and fungal infections, often attributed to weaker immune responses. In contrast, a heightened immune response in females enables better pathogen elimination but leaves females more predisposed to autoimmune diseases. Unfortunately, the underlying basis for sex-specific immune responses remains poorly understood. Here, we show a sex difference in the CD8+ T cell response to an enteric virus, Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3)...
September 5, 2023: PLoS Pathogens
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