Roles of TLR9: Gatekeeper to fungal infections

Elias Barbosa da Silva-Junior, Leonardo Freire-de-Lima, Luciana Polaco Covre, Alexandre Morrot, Herbert Leonel de Matos Guedes, Debora Decote-Ricardo, Celio Geraldo Freire-de-Lima

PLOS Pathogens: published June 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013185

At the genetic crossroads of Leishmania: Emerging hybrids reshaping disease patterns

Tiago R. Ferreira

PLOS Pathogens: published June 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013213

Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) and the microbiome

Quentin Perraud, Vanessa Sperandio

PLOS Pathogens: published June 12, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013224

The rise of fungal G-protein coupled receptors in pathogenesis and symbiosis

Max Heinen, Hanna Rovenich, Florian Altegoer

PLOS Pathogens: published June 12, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013212

Beyond division and morphogenesis: Considering the emerging roles of septins in plasma membrane homeostasis and cell wall integrity in human fungal pathogens

Stephani Martinez Barrera, Lukasz Kozubowski

PLOS Pathogens: published June 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013226

Host targets of candidalysin

Jianfeng Lin, Scott G. Filler

PLOS Pathogens: published June 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013284

Trichomonas vaginalis extracellular vesicles activate the NLRP3 inflammasome and TLR3-mediated inflammatory cascades in host cells

Ching-Yun Huang, Shu-Fang Chiu, Lichieh Julie Chu, Yuan-Ming Yeh, Po-Jung Huang, Kuo-Lun Lan, Yu-Ling Tsai, Ching-Chun Liu, Chien-Fu F. Chen, Wei-Ning Lin, Kuo-Yang Huang

PLOS Pathogens: published June 2, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013216

Heterochromatin de novo formation and maintenance in Plasmodium falciparum

Alba Pérez-Cantero, Oriol Llorà-Batlle, Ingrid Pelaez-Conde, César Martínez-Guardiola, Alfred Cortés

PLOS Pathogens: published June 2, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013137

SFTSV NSs degrades SAFA via autophagy to suppress SAFA-dependent antiviral response

Tian-mei Yu, Ze-min Li, Wen-kang Zhang, Bang Li, Qiao Liu, Chuan-min Zhou, Xue-jie Yu

PLOS Pathogens: published June 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013201

Role of the CTCF binding site in Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus-1 pathogenesis

Ancy Joseph, Xiaogang Cheng, John Harding, Jacob Al-Saleem, Patrick Green, Malachi Griffith, Deborah Veis, Daniel A. Rauch, Lee Ratner

PLOS Pathogens: published June 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012293

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa Tse4 toxin assembles ion-selective and voltage-sensitive ion channels to couple membrane depolarisation with K⁺ efflux

Jessica Rojas-Palomino, Carmen Velázquez, Jon Altuna-Alvarez, Amaia González-Magaña, Maialen Zabala-Zearreta, Matthias Müller, María Queralt-Martín, Antonio Alcaraz, David Albesa-Jové

PLOS Pathogens: published June 4, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012981

Albendazole specifically disrupts microtubules and protein turnover in the tegument of the cestode Mesocestoides corti

Inés Guarnaschelli, Uriel Koziol

PLOS Pathogens: published June 4, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013221

Induction of tunnelling nanotube-like structures by influenza A viruses requires the onset of apoptosis

Daniel Weir, Calum Bentley-Abbot, Jack McCowan, Colin Loney, Edward Roberts, Edward Hutchinson

PLOS Pathogens: published June 5, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013191

Murine modeling of menstruation identifies immune correlates of protection during Chlamydia muridarum challenge

Laurel A. Lawrence, Mark Elliott Williams, Paola Vidal, Richa S. Varughese, Zheng-Rong Tiger Li, Thien Duy Chen, Melissa A. Roy, Steven C. Tuske, Anice C. Lowen, Christopher D. Scharer, William M. Shafer, Alison Swaims-Kohlmeier

PLOS Pathogens: published June 6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012276

Multiple introductions of equine influenza virus into the United Kingdom resulted in widespread outbreaks and lineage replacement

Laura Mojsiejczuk, Fleur Whitlock, Hanting Chen, Callum Magill, Elihu Aranday-Cortes, Jordan Bone, Lily Tong, Ana Da Silva Filipe, Neil Bryant, J. Richard Newton, Thomas M. Chambers, Stephanie E. Reedy, Manabu Nemoto, Takashi Yamanaka, Joseph Hughes, Pablo R. Murcia

PLOS Pathogens: published June 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013227

SOX9 plays an essential role in myofibroblast driven hepatic granuloma integrity and parenchymal repair during schistosomiasis-induced liver damage

Kim Su, Elliot Jokl, Alice Costain, Kara Simpson, Antonn Cheeseman, Alexander Phythian-Adams, Kevin N. Couper, Andrew S. MacDonald, Karen Piper Hanley

PLOS Pathogens: published June 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012928

Detecting SARS-CoV-2 cryptic lineages using publicly available whole genome wastewater sequencing data

Reinier Suarez, Devon A. Gregory, David A. Baker, Clayton A. Rushford, Torin L. Hunter, Nicholas R. Minor, Clayton M. Russ, Emma E. Copen, David H. O’Connor, Marc C. Johnson

PLOS Pathogens: published June 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012850

Antigen-specific CD4⁺ T cells promote monocyte recruitment and differentiation into glycolytic lung macrophages to control Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Samuel H. Becker, Christine E. Ronayne, Tyler D. Bold, Marc K. Jenkins

PLOS Pathogens: published June 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013208

EPHA5 regulates antifungal innate immunity by phosphorylating EPHB2 and Dectin-1

Ru Gao, Heping Wang, Zhihui Cui, Yanyun Du, Ruirui He, Lingyun Feng, Bo Zeng, Yangyang Li, Guoling Huang, Ting Pan, Yuan Wang, Ming Yi, Chenhui Wang

PLOS Pathogens: published June 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013179

High prevalence of simian foamy virus infection of South American Indians

William M. Switzer, HaoQiang Zheng, Cláudia P. Muniz, Yi Pan, Hongwei Jia, Shaohua Tang, Anupama Shankar, Roxana Cintron, Jan Drobeniuc, Marcelo A. Soares, Walid Heneine

PLOS Pathogens: published June 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013169

Evolutionary and structural basis of SLAMF1 utilization in morbilliviruses—Implications for host range and cross-species transmission

Ayumu Hyodo, Fumio Seki, Kento Fukuda, Kaede Tashiro, Yuki Kitai, Yukiko Akahori, Hideko Watabe, Hiroshi Katoh, Rikuto Osaki, Daisuke Takaya, Norihito Kawashita, Hideo Fukuhara, Satoshi Ikegame, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Park Eunsil, Shigeru Morikawa, Ryoji Yamaguchi, Benhur Lee, Katsumi Maenaka, Tsuyoshi Shirai, Kaori Fukuzawa, Shigenori Tanaka, Makoto Takeda

PLOS Pathogens: published June 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012990

A systematic review of the distribution and prevalence of viruses detected in the Peromyscus maniculatus species complex (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

Ally Finkbeiner, Ahmad Khatib, Nathan Upham, Beckett Sterner

PLOS Pathogens: published June 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013125

Plasmodium falciparum expresses fewer var genes at lower levels during asymptomatic dry season infections than clinical malaria cases

Sukai Ceesay, Martin Kampmann, Lasse Votborg-Novél, Helle Smedegaard Hansson, Rasmus Weisel Jensen, Manuela Carrasquilla, Hamidou Cisse, Louise Turner, Usama Dabbas, Christina Ntalla, Silke Bandermann, Safiatou Doumbo, Didier Doumtabe, Aissata Ongoiba, Kassoum Kayentao, Boubacar Traore, Peter D. Crompton, Thomas Lavstsen, Silvia Portugal

PLOS Pathogens: published June 10, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013210

The conserved poxvirus membrane entry-fusion apparatus component OPG147 targets MITA/STING for immune evasion

Xue-Mei Yi, Mi Li, Su-Yun Wang, Shi-Han Wang, Jia-Qing Zeng, Ya-Li Lei, Yu Zhang, Chun-Yu Zhu, Ying Zhang, Jun-Hui Song, Yun-Da Chen, Yun Wang, Hong-Bing Shu, Shu Li, Yan-Yi Wang

PLOS Pathogens: published June 11, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013198

White spot syndrome virus immediate-early protein (wsv100) antagonizes the NF-κB pathway to inhibit innate immune response in shrimp

Bang Xiao, Fang Kang, Qianqian Li, Junming Pan, Yue Wang, Jianguo He, Chaozheng Li

PLOS Pathogens: published June 12, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012828

The snakehead retrovirus promoter functions independently of the 3’ORF protein and its products are maternally inherited in transgenic zebrafish

Rachel Zamostiano, Odelia Pisanty, Japhette Esther Kembou-Ringert, Reem Abu Rass, Avi Eldar, Marcelo Ehrlich, Yoav Gothilf, Eran Bacharach

PLOS Pathogens: published June 12, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013243

Reverse transcription progression and genome length regulate HIV-1 core elasticity and disassembly

Akshay Deshpande, Jiong Shi, Noa Rotem-Dai, Christopher Aiken, Itay Rousso

PLOS Pathogens: published June 12, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013269

Structural exposure of different microtubule binding domains determines the propagation and toxicity of pathogenic tau conformers in Alzheimer’s disease

Lenka Hromadkova, Chae Kim, Tracy Haldiman, Mohammad Khursheed Siddiqi, Krystyna Surewicz, Kiley Urquhart, Dur-E-Nayab Sadruddin, Lihua Peng, Xiongwei Zhu, Witold K. Surewicz, Mark L. Cohen, Mark R. Chance, Rohan de Silva, Janna Kiselar, Jiri G. Safar

PLOS Pathogens: published June 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012926

APOE protects against severe infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis by restraining production of neutrophil extracellular traps

Dong Liu, Dat Mai, Ana N. Jahn, Tara A. Murray, John D. Aitchison, Benjamin H. Gern, Kevin B. Urdahl, Alan Aderem, Alan H. Diercks, Elizabeth S. Gold

PLOS Pathogens: published June 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013267

PHD3-VHL axis controls HIV-2 infection through oxygen-dependent hydroxylation and degradation of Vpx

Kei Miyakawa, Kiho Tanaka, Yoko Ino, Yayoi Kimura, Taichi Kameya, Fuminori Mizukoshi, Mayuko Nishi, Masaru Yokoyama, Jun Nakabayashi, Masako Nomaguchi, Hironori Sato, Hirokazu Kimura, Hirofumi Akari, Tomoyuki Miura, Akinori Takaoka, Hideki Hasegawa, Tetsuro Matano, Yoji Andrew Minamishima, Akihide Ryo

PLOS Pathogens: published June 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013241

Circovirus Rep evades immune restriction by disrupting cGAS oligomerization and phase separation

Hongyan Yin, Zhenchao Zhao, Ye Yuan, Minjie Li, Lvye Chai, Weiyu Qu, Yan Ya, Haiwei Wang, Xin Li

PLOS Pathogens: published June 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013244

Env from EIAV vaccine delicately regulates NLRP3 activation via attenuating NLRP3-NEK7 interaction

Xing Guo, Cong Liu, Yuhong Wang, Hongxin Li, Saiwen Ma, Lei Na, Huiling Ren, Yuezhi Lin, Xiaojun Wang

PLOS Pathogens: published June 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012772

IFN alpha inducible protein 27 (IFI27) acts as a positive regulator of PACT-dependent PKR activation after RNA virus infections

Darío López-García, Vanessa Rivero, Laura Villamayor, Marta L. DeDiego

PLOS Pathogens: published June 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013246

The zinc metalloprotein MigC impacts cell wall biogenesis through interactions with an essential Mur ligase in Acinetobacter baumannii

Jeanette M. Critchlow, Joseph S. Rocchio, Melanie C. McKell, Courtney J. Campbell, Juan P. Barraza, Evan S. Krystofiak, Erin R. Green, Tae Akizuki, Walter J. Chazin, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Timothy L. Stemmler, David P. Giedroc, Eric P. Skaar

PLOS Pathogens: published June 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013209

Toxoplasma gondii infection of neurons alters the production and content of extracellular vesicles directing astrocyte phenotype and contributing to the loss of GLT-1 in the infected brain

Emily Z. Tabaie, Ziting Gao, Nala Kachour, Arzu Ulu, Stacey Gomez, Zoe A. Figueroa, Kristina V. Bergersen, Wenwan Zhong, Emma H. Wilson

PLOS Pathogens: published June 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012733

Subversion of phosphorylated SR proteins by enterovirus A71 in IRES-dependent translation revealed by RNA-interactome analysis

Kuo-Ming Lee, Chih-Ching Wu, Yu-Ting Fan, Huan-Jung Chiang, Pei-Yi Lien, Jui-Ping Wang, Yhu-Chering Huang, Shin-Ru Shih

PLOS Pathogens: published June 16, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013242

TIGIT blockade improves anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunity

Jingyu Zhou, Qingluan Yang, Haoxin Xu, Huaxin Chen, Ning Jiang, Qinfang Ou, Mengqing Qian, Xing Lin, Yixuan Yang, Feiran Zhou, Yuzhen Xu, Qianqian Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yan Gao, Wenhong Zhang, Lingyun Shao, Qiaoling Ruan

PLOS Pathogens: published June 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013228

Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: An historical and phylogeographical retrospective

Innocent Ndikumana, Geoffrey Onaga, Agnès Pinel-Galzi, Pauline Rocu, Judith Hubert, Hassan Karakacha Wéré, Antony Adego, Mariam Nyongesa Wéré, Nils Poulicard, Maxime Hebrard, Simon Dellicour, Philippe Lemey, Erik Gilbert, Marie-José Dugué, François Chevenet, Paul Bastide, Stéphane Guindon, Denis Fargette, Eugénie Hébrard

PLOS Pathogens: published June 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013168

Experimental evolution of a pathogen confronted with innate immune memory increases variation in virulence

Ana Korša, Moritz Baur, Nora K. E. Schulz, Jaime M. Anaya-Rojas, Alexander Mellmann, Joachim Kurtz

PLOS Pathogens: published June 18, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012839

Microglia-specific NF-κB signaling is a critical regulator of prion-induced glial inflammation and neuronal loss

Arielle J. D. Hay, Katriana A. Popichak, Genova Mumford, Jifeng Bian, Payton Shirley, Lauren Wolfrath, Michael Eggers, Eric M. Nicholson, Ronald B. Tjalkens, Mark D. Zabel, Julie A. Moreno

PLOS Pathogens: published June 18, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012582

Phylogenetics and genomic variation of Hepatocystis isolated from shotgun sequencing of wild primate hosts

Paige E. Haffener, Helena D. Hopson, Alejandra Herbert-Mainero, Anayansi Ramirez, Ellen M. Leffler

PLOS Pathogens: published June 18, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013240

A novel genus of virulent phage targeting Acinetobacter baumannii: Efficacy and safety in a murine model of pulmonary infection

JiaWang Wang, Huan Hu, QingQing Wang, TianZhu Zhu, XiaoHan Ren, WenQian Jiang, XueMei Hou, Jun Lin, XiaoLing Yu

PLOS Pathogens: published June 20, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013268

SARS-CoV-2 remodels the Golgi apparatus to facilitate viral assembly and secretion

Jianchao Zhang, Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Macedo de Melo Jorge, Lijuan Xing, Whitney Reid, Sarah Bui, Joseph Joppich, Molly Rose, Sevval Ercan, Qiyi Tang, David Ginsburg, Andrew W. Tai, Yanzhuang Wang

PLOS Pathogens: published June 20, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013295

Enterococcal cell wall remodelling underpins pathogenesis via the release of the Enteroccocal Polysaccharide Antigen (EPA)

Robert E. Smith, Bartosz J. Michno, Rene L. Christena, Finn O’Dea, Jessica L. Davis, Ian D.E.A. Lidbury, Marcel G. Alamán-Zárate, Danai Stefanidi, Emmanuel Maes, Hannah Fisher, Tomasz K. Prajsnar, Stéphane Mesnage

PLOS Pathogens: published June 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012771

Distinct neutralization sensitivity between adult and infant transmitted/founder HIV-1 subtype C viruses to broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies

Bongiwe Ndlovu, Kamini Gounder, Nelisiwe Zikhali, Lanish Singh, Ntokozo Ntshangase, Nombali Gumede, Jane Millar, Rebecca T. van Dorsten, Nicholas E. Grayson, David Bonsall, Sandra E. Chaudron, Jennifer Mabuka, Krista L. Dong, Bruce D. Walker, Penny L. Moore, Philip J.R. Goulder, Thumbi Ndung’u

PLOS Pathogens: published June 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013245

Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus cooperates with Epstein-Barr virus to co-transform a small set of human B cells oncogenically

Mitchell Hayes, Wei Wang, Isabela Fraga de Andrade, Paul F. Lambert, Bill Sugden

PLOS Pathogens: published June 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013281

The structural features and immunological role of biomphalysins in the snail Biomphalaria glabrata

Pierre Poteaux, Aline Parpinel, Chantal Ripoll, Amélie Sarrazin, Richard Galinier, Sabine Brugière, Yohann Couté, Lionel Mourey, Patrick C. Hanington, Benjamin Gourbal, Laurent Maveyraud, David Duval

PLOS Pathogens: published June 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013225

Infectome analysis of bat kidneys from Yunnan province, China, reveals novel henipaviruses related to Hendra and Nipah viruses and prevalent bacterial and eukaryotic microbes

Guopeng Kuang, Tian Yang, Weihong Yang, Jing Wang, Hong Pan, Yuanfei Pan, Qin-yu Gou, Wei-chen Wu, Juan Wang, Lifeng Yang, Xi Han, Yao-qing Chen, John-Sebastian Eden, Edward C. Holmes, Mang Shi, Yun Feng

PLOS Pathogens: published June 24, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013235

Direct and indirect pathways linking the Lon protease to motility behaviors in the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Aswathy Kallazhi, Anamika Rahman, Ute Römling, Kristina Jonas

PLOS Pathogens: published June 25, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013288

A comprehensive phylogeny of mammalian PRNP gene reveals no influence of prion misfolding propensity on the evolution of this gene

Cristina Sampedro-Torres-Quevedo, Hasier Eraña, Jorge M. Charco, Carlos M. Díaz-Domínguez, Maitena San-Juan-Ansoleaga, Eva Fernández-Muñoz, Nuno Gonçalves-Anjo, Josu Galarza-Ahumada, Ana R. Cortazar, Roberto F. Nespolo, Julian F. Quintero-Galvis, Africa Manero-Azua, Diego Polanco-Alonso, Adrián Gaite-Reguero, Íñigo Olalde, Urko M. Marigorta, Guiomar Perez de Nanclares, Ana M. Aransay, Joaquín Castilla

PLOS Pathogens: published June 25, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013257

Discovery of functional factorless internal ribosome entry site-like structures through virome mining

Subash Chapagain, Nicolas Salcedo-Porras, Amir Abdolahzadeh, Yaohua Zhang, Higor Sette Pereira, Stephane Flibotte, Kevin Low, Christina Young, Yuhang Wu, Shao Wang, Soh Ishiguro, Nozomu Yachie, Trushar Patel, Artem Babaian, Eric Jan

PLOS Pathogens: published June 26, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013255

Polysaccharide synthesis operon modulates Rickettsia-endothelial cell interactions

Smruti Mishra, Luke Helminiak, Hwan Keun Kim

PLOS Pathogens: published June 26, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013277

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

Stuart A. Fogarty, Deo R. Singh, Scott E. Nelson, Maria E. Calandranis, Yitao Zhang, Abigail S. Pawelski, Alisha S. Kansra, Sophie White, Shannon C. Kenney

PLOS Pathogens: published June 26, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1013236

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