Here we go again: More diseases dubiously attributed to pegivirus infection

Adam L. Bailey

PLOS Pathogens: published October 28, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013641

Re-emergence of chikungunya virus in China by 2025: What we know and what to do?

Tong-Yun Wang, Yue Sun, Yan-Dong Tang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013556

Promiscuity and specificity in ligand sensing by plant cell surface receptors

Christina E. Steidele, Julien Gronnier, Martin Stegmann, Ralph Hückelhoven, Martina K. Ried-Lasi

PLOS Pathogens: published October 8, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013548

Regulation of arbuscular mycorrhiza development by environmental stimuli: Many roads lead to strigolactones

Kees Buhrman, Caroline Gutjahr

PLOS Pathogens: published October 8, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013555

Vimig: The virus-induced migrasome as a novel mechanism for viral transmission and communication

Mingyan Feng, Leiliang Zhang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013557

Is vaccination a feasible public health strategy against fatal Borna disease virus 1 (BoDV-1) encephalitis? An epidemiological perspective

Kirsten Pörtner, Christina Frank, Hendrik Wilking, Klaus Stark, Christiane Herden, Martin Beer, Dennis Rubbenstroth, Dennis Tappe

PLOS Pathogens: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013571

The interplay of RALF structural and signaling functions in plant-microbe interactions

Sebastian Schade, Henriette Leicher, Michelle von Arx, Isabel Monte, Julien Gronnier, Martin Stegmann

PLOS Pathogens: published October 15, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013588

Starve or share? Phosphate availability shapes plant–microbe interactions

Maja Schmidt, Kiran Raj, Judith Salas-Oropeza, Oswaldo Valdés-López, Martina K. Ried-Lasi

PLOS Pathogens: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013601

Persister cells in human fungal pathogens

Yuyan Xie, Weixin Ke, Koon Ho Wong, Linqi Wang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013483

Microbial links to Alzheimer’s disease

Courtney P. Cornitius, Emily K. Perez, Soo Chan Lee

PLOS Pathogens: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013599

Cellular and molecular keys to entry: Mechanisms mediating Orthoflavivirus infection of the mosquito midgut

Godfrey Nattoh, Philip M. Armstrong, Doug E. Brackney

PLOS Pathogens: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013617

Cultivating awareness: How botanical gardens can foster public engagement with plant pathogens

Dagmar Renate Hann, Gudrun Kadereit

PLOS Pathogens: published October 28, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013629

Viral interferon antagonism shapes host tropism

Felix Streicher, Amandine Chantharath, Nolwenn Jouvenet

PLOS Pathogens: published October 7, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013544

The microbiome and gut–lung axis in nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease

Ria N. Thompson, Antje Blumenthal, Mark Morrison, Rachel M. Thomson

PLOS Pathogens: published October 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013603

tRNA modifications as regulators of bacterial virulence and stress responses

Chloé Teixeira, François Vandenesch, Karen Moreau

PLOS Pathogens: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013600

The exploitation of nutrient metals by bacteria for survival and infection in the gut

Summer D. Bushman, Eric P. Skaar

PLOS Pathogens: published October 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013580

Antibiotic-induced morphological changes enhance phage predation

Julián Bulssico, Swapnesh Panigrahi, Mélanie Matveeva, Nicolas Ginet, Mireille Ansaldi

PLOS Pathogens: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013546

Single-cell analysis reveals an important role of CD137L⁺ macrophages in the host response to uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection in the bladder

Yaxiao Liu, Zizhuo Yang, Yinrui Xiang, Guangzhou Cheng, Lipeng Chen, Shuai Wang, Maolin Zang, Nan Zhou, Xiaoyi Zhang, Rui Chen, Benkang Shi, Yan Li

PLOS Pathogens: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013543

Host- and microbial-mediated mucin degradation differentially shape Pseudomonas aeruginosa physiology and gene expression

Sabrina J. Arif, Kayla M. Hoffman, Jeffrey M. Flynn, Talia D. Wiggen, Sarah K. Lucas, Alex R. Villarreal, Adam J. Gilbertsen, Jordan M. Dunitz, Ryan C. Hunter

PLOS Pathogens: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013568

West Nile virus vaccine candidates attenuated by dinucleotide enrichment are immunogenic and protective against lethal infection

Nguyen Phuong Khanh Le, Prince Pal Singh, Ivan Trus, Uladzimir Karniychuk

PLOS Pathogens: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013560

Carabrone inhibits Gaeumannomyces tritici growth by targeting mitochondrial complex I and destabilizing NAD⁺/NADH homeostasis

Xingyu Ren, Jing Bai, Yingying Han, Jiaying Xu, Yingchen Liu, Zhiqing Ma, Yong Wang, Juntao Feng

PLOS Pathogens: published October 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013567

Dysplastic lung repair fosters a tuberculosis-promoting microenvironment through maladaptive macrophage polarization

Shivraj M. Yabaji, Suruchi Lata, Anna E. Tseng, Prasanna Babu Araveti, Ming Lo, Igor Gavrish, Aoife K. O’Connell, Hans P. Gertje, Anna C. Belkina, Colleen E. Thurman, Hirofumi Kiyokawa, Darrell Kotton, Shumin Tan, Janice J. Endsley, William R. Bishai, Nicholas Crossland, Lester Kobzik, Igor Kramnik

PLOS Pathogens: published October 6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013563

The serine protease HtrA regulates Group B Streptococcus virulence and affects the host response to infection

Alyssa Brokaw, Grace Wallen, Austyn Orvis, Hei Joon Kwon, Ravin Seepersaud, Shayla Nguyen, Kavita Sharma, Michelle Coleman, Phoenicia Quach, Joy Twentyman, Jay Vornhagen, Lisa A. Jones, Chenwei Lin, Philip R. Gafken, Lakshmi Rajagopal

PLOS Pathogens: published October 6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013562

Analyses of emerging macrocyclic lactone resistance: Speed and signature of ivermectin and moxidectin selection and evidence of a shared genetic locus

Jennifer McIntyre, Alison Morrison, Kirsty Maitland, Eileen Devaney, James A. Cotton, Collette Britton, Ray M. Kaplan, Dave Bartley, Roz Laing

PLOS Pathogens: published October 6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013578

Aviadenovirus structure: A highly thermostable capsid in the absence of stabilizing proteins

Marta Pérez-Illana, Anna Schachner, Mercedes Hernando-Pérez, Gabriela N. Condezo, Alberto Paradela, Marta Martínez, Roberto Marabini, Michael Hess, Carmen San Martín

PLOS Pathogens: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013553

Avian leukosis virus subgroup J evades innate immunity by activating miR-155 to dually target TRAF3 and STAT1

Xinyue Zhang, Defang Zhou, Jing Zhou, Xiaoyang Liu, Longying Ding, Tianxing Yan, Mengyuan Shi, Shuhai He, Ziqiang Cheng

PLOS Pathogens: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013552

“Pour some sugar on me”—Environmental Candida albicans isolates and the evolution of increased pathogenicity and antifungal resistance through sugar adaptation

Theresa Lange, Jakob L. Sprague, Raghav Vij, Raquel Alonso-Roman, Nadja Jablonowski, Silvia Radosa, Thomas Krüger, Olaf Kniemeyer, Falk Hillmann, Axel A. Brakhage, Stefanie Allert, Sascha Brunke, Bernhard Hube

PLOS Pathogens: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013542

Insect-borne non-enveloped bluetongue virus utilizes discrete small vesicles for non-lytic release and cell-to-cell transmission

Weining Wu, Ulrike Laugks, Kay Grünewald, Polly Roy

PLOS Pathogens: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013582

Murine leukemia virus glycoGag antagonizes SERINC5 via ER-phagy receptor RETREG1

Iqbal Ahmad, Jing Zhang, Rongrong Li, Wenqiang Su, Weiqi Liu, You Wu, Ilyas Khan, Xiaomeng Liu, Lian-Feng Li, Sunan Li, Yong-Hui Zheng

PLOS Pathogens: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013023

Reoviruses hijack the SMARCB1-MYC transcriptional regulation complex to activate autophagy for persistent viral infection in leafhopper vector

Hui Wang, Runfa Liu, Guangming Xiao, Yanan Li, Bozhong Li, Qian Chen, Taiyun Wei

PLOS Pathogens: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013569

The gonococcal vaccine candidate antigen NGO1701 is a N. gonorrhoeae periplasmic copper storage protein

Shea K. Roe, Rafał Mazgaj, Tianmou Zhu, Mariam Esmaeeli, Lisa A. Lewis, Caroline Genco, Kevin J. Waldron, Paola Massari

PLOS Pathogens: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013559

HTLV-1 p12 is cleaved to p8 by the signal peptidase complex and its inhibition impairs p8-dependent transmission

Florian Simon, Norbert Donhauser, Laura M. Kemeter, Franziska Wittdorf, Sebastian Millen, Heinrich Sticht, Andrea K. Thoma-Kress

PLOS Pathogens: published October 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013570

Lactic acid produced by optimal vaginal Lactobacillus spp. potently and specifically inactivates HIV-1 in vitro by targeting the viral RNA genome and reverse transcriptase

Muriel Aldunate, David Tyssen, Adam Johnson, Catherine F. Latham, Paula Ellenberg, Nathan Cowieson, Joshua A. Hayward, Rob J. Center, Paul A. Ramsland, Anna C. Hearps, Gilda Tachedjian

PLOS Pathogens: published October 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013594

TfR1 facilitates influenza virus endocytosis and uncoating by interacting with NA and M1 via extracellular and intracellular domains

Xinchen Wang, Yuanhao Li, Dezhong Ji, Yiming Wang, Xiaoyang Wang, Kangming Guo, Mengyang Wang, Yu Mu, Chen Qin, Tao Yuan, Yuanjie Zhang, Zhiqian Chen, Xingxing Zhu, Xiaohui Zhang, Honghui Jiang, Qiuchen He, Chuanling Zhang, Sulong Xiao, Lihe Zhang, Demin Zhou

PLOS Pathogens: published October 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013511

Highly accurate protein structure prediction-based virtual docking pipeline accelerating the identification of anti-schistosomal compounds

Wenjun Cheng, Mengjie Gu, Yuepeng Wang, Jing Wang, Shan Li, Gongwen Chen, Xu Chen, Oyetunde T. Oyeyemi, Yang Hong, Wei Hu, Jipeng Wang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013274

Mucosal Taï Forest virus infection causes disease in ferrets

Paige Fletcher, Kyle L. O’Donnell, Joseph F. Rhoderick, Corey W. Henderson, Atsushi Okumura, Trenton Bushmaker, Kathleen Cordova, Greg Saturday, Andrea Marzi

PLOS Pathogens: published October 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013579

Phosphorylation of SNAP-25 at Ser187 is enhanced following its cleavage by Botulinum Neurotoxin Serotype A, promoting the dominant-negative effect of the resulting fragment

Dilara Koc, Sena Ezgin, Ebru Kavakli, Krishna P. Kota, Edanur Sen, Christopher Mahone, Mary Ellen Palko, Lisa H. Cazares, Tolga Can, Lino Tessarollo, Sina Bavari, Antoine Marion, Erkan Kiris

PLOS Pathogens: published October 14, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013604

UBXN7 facilitates SARS-CoV-2 replication via inhibiting the K48-linked ubiquitination of viral N protein

Tian Xia, Min Luo, Yuncheng Wang, Yaping Qin, Xiaoning Li, Shuying Chen, Junqi Xiang, Shanrong Yang, Yaokai Wang, Jing Zhu, Bo Yang, Li Lin, Jiajun Yan, Yunxiao Dou, Jian Shang, Na Zang, Yong Lin, Xiaohong Yao, Yushun Wan

PLOS Pathogens: published October 14, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013593

Myosin-9 is required for lysosome-mediated nonlytic reovirus egress

Isabel Fernández de Castro, Martin Sachse, Gwen M. Taylor, José J. Fernández, Raquel Tenorio, Sara Y. Fernández-Sánchez, Terence S. Dermody, Cristina Risco

PLOS Pathogens: published October 14, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013597

Dietary tannic acid promotes intestinal clearance of C. albicans by cross-linking hyphal chitosan

Jia Feng, Lu Gao, Lijuan Qiu, Wen Chao, Yu Liu, Ruina Wang, Lan Yan, Yuanying Jiang, Quanzhen Lv

PLOS Pathogens: published October 15, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013596

Substitution of histidine 95 by tyrosine in the prion protein causes spontaneous neurodegeneration in transgenic mice

Juan-María Torres, Alba Marín-Moreno, Juan-Carlos Espinosa, Sara Canoyra, Anna Burato, Arianna Ciullini, Chiara Maria Giulia De Luca, Edoardo Bistaffa, Fabio Moda, Giuseppe Legname

PLOS Pathogens: published October 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013554

Nutrient stress dramatically increases malaria parasite clag2 copy number to increase host cell permeability and enable pathogen survival

Nicole B. Potchen, Tatiane Macedo Silva, Inderjeet Kalia, Justin B. Lack, Sanjay A. Desai

PLOS Pathogens: published October 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013321

HilE mediates motility thermoregulation in typhoidal Salmonella serovars at elevated physiological temperatures

Rivka Shem-Tov, Ohad Gal-Mor

PLOS Pathogens: published October 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013133

In vitro cultured malaria hypnozoites leave a footprint of specific metabolites

Erica M. Pasini, Hassan Hakimi, Nattawat Chaiyawong, Onny Klop, Anne-Marie Zeeman, Ivonne Nieuwenhuis, Nicole van der Werff, Kumiko Kihara, Kenjiro Kami, Clemens H. M. Kocken, Osamu Kaneko

PLOS Pathogens: published October 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013577

Bat sarbecovirus WIV1-CoV bears an adaptive mutation that alters spike dynamics and enhances ACE2 binding

Alexandra L. Tse, Gorka Lasso, Jacob Berrigan, Jason S. McLellan, Kartik Chandran, Emily Happy Miller

PLOS Pathogens: published October 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013123

HBV p22-interacting protein C1QBP inhibits viral replication through impeding nucleocapsid formation and nuclear import

Xiao Peng, Cheng-Der Liu, Bidisha Mitra, Elena S. Kim, Ning Sun, Andrea Jurado, Hu Zhang, Shitao Li, Tongqing Zhou, Haitao Guo

PLOS Pathogens: published October 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013581

Regulation of lipid metabolism in Spodoptera frugiperda by the symbiotic bracovirus of the gregarious parasitoid Cotesia ruficrus

Xian Li, Jun-Long An, Wen-Qin Yang, Tong-Xian Liu, Shi-Ze Zhang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013605

Follicular CD8⁺ T cells in Trypanosoma cruzi infection: helpers or killers depending on the target B cell population

Yamila Gazzoni, Laura Almada, Julio C. Gareca, Carolina L. Montes, Eva V. Acosta-Rodríguez, Adriana Gruppi

PLOS Pathogens: published October 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013595

Eph receptor tyrosine kinases are functional entry receptors for murine gammaherpesvirus 68

Anna K. Großkopf, Victor Tobiasson, Laurie T. Krug

PLOS Pathogens: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013263

Disruption of undecaprenyl phosphate recycling suppresses ampC beta-lactamase induction in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Karina Klycheva, Joël Gyger, Mélissa Frund, Gabriel Torrens, Felipe Cava, Coralie Fumeaux

PLOS Pathogens: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013633

Human monoclonal antibodies to HPV16 show evidence for common developmental pathways and public epitopes

Joseph J. Carter, Nicholas K. Hurlburt, Erin M. Scherer, Suruchi Singh, Justas V. Rodarte, Robin A. Smith, Peter Lewis, Rachel Kinzelman, Jacqueline Kieltyka, Madelyn E. Cabãn, Gregory C. Wipf, Marie Pancera, Denise A. Galloway

PLOS Pathogens: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013086

Induction of HIV-1-specific antibody-mediated effector functions by native-like envelope trimers in humans

Marloes Grobben, Emma I. M. M. Reiss, Angela I. Schriek, Karlijn van der Straten, Nathalie Dereuddre-Bosquet, Pauline Maisonnasse, Alex Rooker, Chunhao Yu, Khadija Tejjani, Monica Tolazzi, Kwinten Sliepen, Réka Felfödiné Lévai, Attila Farsang, Roger Le Grand, Gabriella Scarlatti, Robin J. Shattock, Steven W. de Taeye, Godelieve J. de Bree, Rogier W. Sanders, Marit J. van Gils

PLOS Pathogens: published October 21, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013614

Pathogenicity and transmission of Morganella morganii in honey bees

Yijun Chen, Qiang Huang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 22, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013613

African swine fever virus pB318L suppresses inflammatory response by inhibiting NF-κB activation and NLRP3 inflammasome formation

Xiaohong Liu, Guangqiang Ye, Yi Zeng, Hanyu Wu, Siqi Dong, Xiaoping He, Qiongqiong Zhou, Hongyang Liu, Zhaoxia Zhang, Jiangnan Li, Changjiang Weng, Li Huang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 22, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013558

External factors influence intrinsic differences in Stx2e production by Porcine Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains

Sander Van hoorde, Nick Vereecke, Daniel Sperling, Xiaohua He, Emma Vanbeylen, Emma Van Denberghe, Eric Cox, Bert Devriendt

PLOS Pathogens: published October 22, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013616

A mycovirus enhances fitness of an insect pathogenic fungus and potentially modulates virulence through interactions between viral and host proteins

Najie Shi, Guogen Yang, Ping Wang, Yulong Wang, Lili He, Rui Xie, Yang Yang, Deshui Yu, Robert H. A. Coutts, Ioly Kotta-Loizou, Bo Huang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013634

Kmo restricts Salmonella in a whole organism infection model by promoting macrophage lysosomal acidification through kainate receptor antagonism

Emily R. Goering, Anne E. Clatworthy, Margarita Parada-Kusz, Josephine Bagnall, Deborah T. Hung

PLOS Pathogens: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013273

Cryptosporidium oocyst wall proteins are true components of the oocyst wall and COWP8 is not required for parasite transmission

Ross Bacchetti, Sarah Stevens, Leandro Lemgruber, Mariana Azevedo Gonzalez Oliva, Emma M. Sands, Konstantinos Alexandrou, Michele Tinti, Lee Robinson, Jack C. Hanna, Simona Seizova, Peyton Goddard, Massimo Vassalli, Mattie Christine Pawlowic

PLOS Pathogens: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013561

TRIM45 restricts influenza virus infection through modulating the chaperone-mediated autophagic degradation of viral PB2 protein

Yihan Wang, Li Jiang, Qibing Li, Mengya Li, Wenjun Shi, Bo Wang, Guangwen Wang, Guohua Deng, Jianzhong Shi, Guobin Tian, Xianying Zeng, Hualan Chen, Chengjun Li

PLOS Pathogens: published October 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013630

A comprehensive PDCoV-host proteome interaction map reveals potential antiviral targets

Wenjun Yan, Kailu Wang, Song Liu, Rongbin Qiu, Qingcheng Yang, Hao Li, Siyu Huang, Chengyao Hou, Qinyuan Chu, Yue Sun, Yizhi Tang, Changwei Lei, Yiming Tian, Hongning Wang, Xin Yang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013615

Influenza virus infection reprograms cholesterol biosynthesis to facilitate virus replication by the TAK1-RORγ axis

Jingting Zhang, Ruixuan Cao, Yujie Wang, Yuling Sun, Xiaoyue Ji, Penggang Liu, Kaituo Liu, Jing Sun, Xiaojun Chen, Demin Cai, Pinghu Zhang, Xiaoquan Wang, Xiufan Liu, Xiulong Xu

PLOS Pathogens: published October 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013646

The TRAPPIII complex regulates development and virulence of Fusarium graminearum by coordinating autophagy and intracellular transport

Lei Chen, Yaxin Zhang, Geqi Zhang, Letian Xu, Mengfan Ren, Liyuan Zhang, Kai Lu, Xiaochen Chen, Yuancun Liang, Shenshen Zou, Hansong Dong

PLOS Pathogens: published October 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013627

Flavin affinity for the reductase HpaC differentially sensitizes Neisseria gonorrhoeae during Type IV pilus-dependent killing

Linda I. Hu, Egon A. Ozer, H. S. Seifert

PLOS Pathogens: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013607

Retinol binding protein 4 enhances cellular cholesterol uptake to facilitate influenza A virus infection

Hejiao Zhao, Yalu Zhang, Qingbing Han, Huanan Li, Wenjun Liu, Lei Sun, Yingli Shang

PLOS Pathogens: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013623

A broad-spectrum anti-fungal effector dictates bacterial-fungal interkingdom interactions

Shuangquan Yan, Yun Zou, Tingting Wu, Yumin Kan, Han Luo, Tong-Tong Pei, Xiaoye Liang, Ying An, Pengfei Meng, Yi Song, Wen-Ming Qin, Changbin Chen, Tao Dong

PLOS Pathogens: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013598

PfATP2 is a flippase on the Plasmodium falciparum surface that is important for growth and influences parasite sensitivity to antiplasmodial compounds

Deyun Qiu, Eleanor England, Adele M. Lehane

PLOS Pathogens: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013645

The adenovirus E4orf1 protein initiates a feedback loop involving insulin and growth factor receptors, AKT, and NF-κB, leading to abnormal DNA content in infected cells

Madison Moore, Jiang Kong, Ahlam Akmel, Michael A. Thomas

PLOS Pathogens: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013202

Structures of vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein G alone and bound to a neutralizing antibody

Marie Minoves, Malika Ouldali, Laura Belot, Stéphane Roche, Sarah Johari, Magali Noiray, Eleftherios Zarkadas, Guy Schoehn, Yves Gaudin, Aurélie A. Albertini

PLOS Pathogens: published October 27, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013589

ZNFX1 functions as a compensatory dsRNA recognition receptor to exert antiviral effect in orange-spotted grouper

Rui Zheng, Siyou Huang, Yiling Kang, Jie Gao, Bingya Wu, Qijin Miao, Jianguo He, Junfeng Xie

PLOS Pathogens: published October 29, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013652

A bacterial effector protein targets plant ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase to promote infection

Lihaitian Wang, Xiaoli Liu, Feng Yu, Wenxuan Pu, Xiaoxu Li, Dousheng Wu

PLOS Pathogens: published October 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013664

Cytoplasmic sequestering of a fungal stress-activated MAPK in response to a host plant phenolic acid

Rina Zuchman, Roni Koren, Tamar Ziv, Yael Lupu-Haber, Nitsan Dahan, Ofri Levi, Benjamin A. Horwitz

PLOS Pathogens: published October 30, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013620

Correction: IRF6 controls Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) lytic reactivation and differentiation in EBV-infected epithelial cells

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PLOS Pathogens: published October 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013564

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Correction: Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery

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Correction: Anticoagulant therapy and altered tissue factor expression protect against experimental placental and cerebral malaria

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Correction: Trehalose supports the growth of Aedes aegypti cells and modifies gene expression and dengue virus type 2 replication

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