Chlamydia trachomatis and human herpesvirus 6 infections in ovarian cancer—Casual or causal?

Nitish Gulve, Thomas Rudel

PLOS Pathogens: published November 7, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008055

Ammonium transceptors: Novel regulators of fungal development

Bert van den Berg, Siobhan Lister, Julian C. Rutherford

PLOS Pathogens: published November 7, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008059

The power of saliva: Antimicrobial and beyond

Taissa Vila, Alexandra M. Rizk, Ahmed S. Sultan, Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk

PLOS Pathogens: published November 14, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008058

Mitochondrial dynamics in parasitic protists

Luboš Voleman, Pavel Doležal

PLOS Pathogens: published November 21, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008008

Alphaherpesvirus infection of mice primes PNS neurons to an inflammatory state regulated by TLR2 and type I IFN signaling

Kathlyn Laval, Jolien Van Cleemput, Jonah B. Vernejoul, Lynn W. Enquist

PLOS Pathogens: published November 1, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008087

The ETS transcription factor ELF1 regulates a broadly antiviral program distinct from the type I interferon response

Leon Louis Seifert, Clara Si, Debjani Saha, Mohammad Sadic, Maren de Vries, Sarah Ballentine, Aaron Briley, Guojun Wang, Ana M. Valero-Jimenez, Adil Mohamed, Uwe Schaefer, Hong M. Moulton, Adolfo García-Sastre, Shashank Tripathi, Brad R. Rosenberg, Meike Dittmann

PLOS Pathogens: published November 4, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007634

Modulation of flagellar rotation in surface-attached bacteria: A pathway for rapid surface-sensing after flagellar attachment

Maren Schniederberend, Jessica F. Williams, Emilee Shine, Cong Shen, Ruchi Jain, Thierry Emonet, Barbara I. Kazmierczak

PLOS Pathogens: published November 4, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008149

Candida albicans triggers NADPH oxidase-independent neutrophil extracellular traps through dectin-2

Sheng-Yang Wu, Chia-Lin Weng, Min-Jhen Jheng, Hung-Wei Kan, Sung-Tsang Hsieh, Fu-Tong Liu, Betty A. Wu-Hsieh

PLOS Pathogens: published November 6, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008096

The male mosquito contribution towards malaria transmission: Mating influences the Anopheles female midgut transcriptome and increases female susceptibility to human malaria parasites

Farah Aida Dahalan, Thomas S. Churcher, Nikolai Windbichler, Mara K. N. Lawniczak

PLOS Pathogens: published November 7, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008063

Human monoclonal antibodies against chikungunya virus target multiple distinct epitopes in the E1 and E2 glycoproteins

Jose A. Quiroz, Ryan J. Malonis, Larissa B. Thackray, Courtney A. Cohen, Jesper Pallesen, Rohit K. Jangra, Rebecca S. Brown, Daniel Hofmann, Frederick W. Holtsberg, Sergey Shulenin, Elisabeth K. Nyakatura, Lorellin A. Durnell, Vinayak Rayannavar, Johanna P. Daily, Andrew B. Ward, M. Javad Aman, John M. Dye, Kartik Chandran, Michael S. Diamond, Margaret Kielian, Jonathan R. Lai

PLOS Pathogens: published November 7, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008061

Aging boosts antiviral CD8⁺T cell memory through improved engagement of diversified recall response determinants

Bennett Davenport, Jens Eberlein, Tom T. Nguyen, Francisco Victorino, Kevin Jhun, Haedar Abuirqeba, Verena van der Heide, Peter Heeger, Dirk Homann

PLOS Pathogens: published November 7, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008144

Porphyromonas gingivalis induces penetration of lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan through the gingival epithelium via degradation of junctional adhesion molecule 1

Hiroki Takeuchi, Naoko Sasaki, Shunsuke Yamaga, Masae Kuboniwa, Michiya Matsusaki, Atsuo Amano

PLOS Pathogens: published November 7, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008124

Mycobacterium abscessus virulence traits unraveled by transcriptomic profiling in amoeba and macrophages

Violaine Dubois, Alexandre Pawlik, Anouchka Bories, Vincent Le Moigne, Odile Sismeiro, Rachel Legendre, Hugo Varet, María del Pilar Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Jean-Louis Gaillard, Jean-Yves Coppée, Roland Brosch, Jean-Louis Herrmann, Fabienne Girard-Misguich

PLOS Pathogens: published November 8, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008069

Trypanosoma brucei infection protects mice against malaria

Margarida Sanches-Vaz, Adriana Temporão, Rafael Luis, Helena Nunes-Cabaço, António M. Mendes, Sarah Goellner, Tânia Carvalho, Luisa M. Figueiredo, Miguel Prudêncio

PLOS Pathogens: published November 8, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008145

Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin induces blood brain barrier permeability via caveolae-dependent transcytosis and requires expression of MAL

Jennifer R. Linden, Claudia Flores, Eric F. Schmidt, Francisco A. Uzal, Adam O. Michel, Marissa Valenzuela, Sebastian Dobrow, Timothy Vartanian

PLOS Pathogens: published November 8, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008014

NEDD4 family ubiquitin ligases associate with LCMV Z’s PPXY domain and are required for virus budding, but not via direct ubiquitination of Z

Christopher M. Ziegler, Loan Dang, Philip Eisenhauer, Jamie A. Kelly, Benjamin R. King, Joseph P. Klaus, Inessa Manuelyan, Ethan B. Mattice, David J. Shirley, Marion E. Weir, Emily A. Bruce, Bryan A. Ballif, Jason Botten

PLOS Pathogens: published November 11, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008100

14-3-3 scaffold proteins mediate the inactivation of trim25 and inhibition of the type I interferon response by herpesvirus deconjugases

Soham Gupta, Päivi Ylä-Anttila, Tatyana Sandalova, Renhua Sun, Adnane Achour, Maria G. Masucci

PLOS Pathogens: published November 11, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008146

Host nutritional status affects alphavirus virulence, transmission, and evolution

James Weger-Lucarelli, Lucia Carrau, Laura I. Levi, Veronica Rezelj, Thomas Vallet, Hervé Blanc, Jérémy Boussier, Daniela Megrian, Sheryl Coutermarsh-Ott, Tanya LeRoith, Marco Vignuzzi

PLOS Pathogens: published November 11, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008089

The Crohn’s disease-associated Escherichia coli strain LF82 relies on SOS and stringent responses to survive, multiply and tolerate antibiotics within macrophages

Gaëlle Demarre, Victoria Prudent, Hanna Schenk, Emilie Rousseau, Marie-Agnès Bringer, Nicolas Barnich, Guy Tran Van Nhieu, Sylvie Rimsky, Silvia De Monte, Olivier Espéli

PLOS Pathogens: published November 14, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008123

Chromatin dynamics and the transcriptional competence of HSV-1 genomes during lytic infections

MiYao Hu, Daniel P. Depledge, Esteban Flores Cortes, Judith Breuer, Luis M. Schang

PLOS Pathogens: published November 14, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008076

Host signaling and EGR1 transcriptional control of human cytomegalovirus replication and latency

Jason Buehler, Ethan Carpenter, Sebastian Zeltzer, Suzu Igarashi, Michael Rak, Iliyana Mikell, Jay A. Nelson, Felicia Goodrum

PLOS Pathogens: published November 14, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008037

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Subclinical in utero Zika virus infection is associated with interferon alpha sequelae and sex-specific molecular brain pathology in asymptomatic porcine offspring

Ivan Trus, Daniel Udenze, Brian Cox, Nathalie Berube, Rebecca E. Nordquist, Franz Josef van der Staay, Yanyun Huang, Gary Kobinger, David Safronetz, Volker Gerdts, Uladzimir Karniychuk

PLOS Pathogens: published November 14, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008038

Activation of Shigella flexneri type 3 secretion requires a host-induced conformational change to the translocon pore

Brian C. Russo, Jeffrey K. Duncan, Alexandra L. Wiscovitch, Austin C. Hachey, Marcia B. Goldberg

PLOS Pathogens: published November 14, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007928

EV71 infection induces neurodegeneration via activating TLR7 signaling and IL-6 production

Zhen Luo, Rui Su, Wenbiao Wang, Yicong Liang, Xiaofeng Zeng, Muhammad Adnan Shereen, Nadia Bashir, Qi Zhang, Ling Zhao, Kailang Wu, Yingle Liu, Jianguo Wu

PLOS Pathogens: published November 15, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008142

N-glycosylation of the protein disulfide isomerase Pdi1 ensures full Ustilago maydis virulence

Miriam Marín-Menguiano, Ismael Moreno-Sánchez, Ramón R. Barrales, Alfonso Fernández-Álvarez, José Ignacio Ibeas

PLOS Pathogens: published November 15, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007687

Influenza viruses that require 10 genomic segments as antiviral therapeutics

Alfred T. Harding, Griffin D. Haas, Benjamin S. Chambers, Nicholas S. Heaton

PLOS Pathogens: published November 15, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008098

Trickle infection and immunity to Trichuris muris

Maya Glover, Stefano A. P. Colombo, David J. Thornton, Richard K. Grencis

PLOS Pathogens: published November 15, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007926

Electrostatic interactions at the five-fold axis alter heparin-binding phenotype and drive enterovirus A71 virulence in mice

Han Kang Tee, Chee Wah Tan, Thinesshwary Yogarajah, Michelle Hui Pheng Lee, Hann Juang Chai, Nur Aziah Hanapi, Siti R. Yusof, Kien Chai Ong, Vannajan Sanghiran Lee, I-Ching Sam, Yoke Fun Chan

PLOS Pathogens: published November 15, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007863

Multi-strain Tn-Seq reveals common daptomycin resistance determinants in Staphylococcus aureus

Kathryn A. Coe, Wonsik Lee, Madeleine C. Stone, Gloria Komazin-Meredith, Timothy C. Meredith, Yonatan H. Grad, Suzanne Walker

PLOS Pathogens: published November 18, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007862

Reprogramming the unfolded protein response for replication by porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

Peng Gao, Yue Chai, Jiangwei Song, Teng Liu, Peng Chen, Lei Zhou, Xinna Ge, Xin Guo, Jun Han, Hanchun Yang

PLOS Pathogens: published November 18, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008169

Kinetics of HTLV-1 reactivation from latency quantified by single-molecule RNA FISH and stochastic modelling

Michi Miura, Supravat Dey, Saumya Ramanayake, Abhyudai Singh, David S. Rueda, Charles R. M. Bangham

PLOS Pathogens: published November 18, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008164

Regulation of macrophage activity by surface receptors contained within Borrelia burgdorferi-enriched phagosomal fractions

Ana Carreras-González, Diego Barriales, Ainhoa Palacios, Marta Montesinos-Robledo, Nicolás Navasa, Mikel Azkargorta, Ainize Peña-Cearra, Julen Tomás-Cortázar, Iraide Escobes, Miguel Angel Pascual-Itoiz, Jana Hradiská, Jan Kopecký, David Gil-Carton, Rafael Prados-Rosales, Leticia Abecia, Estíbaliz Atondo, Itziar Martín, Aize Pellón, Félix Elortza, Héctor Rodríguez, Juan Anguita

PLOS Pathogens: published November 18, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008163

NCOA2 promotes lytic reactivation of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus by enhancing the expression of the master switch protein RTA

Xiaoqin Wei, Lei Bai, Lianghui Dong, Huimei Liu, Peidong Xing, Zhiyao Zhou, Shuwen Wu, Ke Lan

PLOS Pathogens: published November 21, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008160

Amblyomma americanum ticks utilizes countervailing pro and anti-inflammatory proteins to evade host defense

Mariam Bakshi, Tae Kwon Kim, Lindsay Porter, Waithaka Mwangi, Albert Mulenga

PLOS Pathogens: published November 22, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008128

The mosquito melanization response requires hierarchical activation of non-catalytic clip domain serine protease homologs

Layla El Moussawi, Johnny Nakhleh, Layla Kamareddine, Mike A. Osta

PLOS Pathogens: published November 25, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008194

CDR3α drives selection of the immunodominant Epstein Barr virus (EBV) BRLF1-specific CD8 T cell receptor repertoire in primary infection

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