期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (4)
The development of a universal vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is hindered by cross-serotype antigenic diversity and by a lack of ......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (5)
Tyrosine phosphatases are often weaponized by bacteria colonizing mucosal barriers to manipulate host cell signal transduction pathways. Porphyromonas......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (8)
Author summary Heparan sulfate (HS) is a linear polysaccharide (sugar) found in all animal tissues. It binds to a variety of protein ligands, includin......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (4)
Multi-functional DEAD-box helicase 5 (DDX5), which is important in transcriptional regulation, is hijacked by diverse viruses to facilitate viral repl......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (6)
The exopolysaccharide galactosaminogalactan (GAG) has been well characterized in Aspergilli, especially the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. It h......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (8)
EBV-encoded LMPs are consistently detected in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Recent evidence suggests potential roles of LMP1 and LMP2A in Epithelial......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (7)
Author summary Human norovirus (NoV) has been recognized as the leading cause of the epidemic acute gastroenteritis worldwide and more than 50% acute ......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (6)
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a prion disease of cattle that is caused by the misfolding of the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) into an in......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (8)
Author summary Geminiviruses infect numerous crops, induce a wide range of symptoms, and cause tremendous crop losses annually. Tomato yellow leaf cur......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (4)
The H7N9 avian influenza virus (AIV) that emerged in China have caused five waves of human infection. Further human cases have been successfully preve......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (7)
The intestinal microbiota has been associated with the occurrence and development of mastitis, which is one of the most serious diseases of lactating ......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (6)
HIV-1 functional cure requires sustained viral suppression without antiretroviral therapy. While effector-memory CD8(+) T lymphocytes are essential fo......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (7)
Author summary In recent decades, there has been serious concern about the decline of honey bees in the world. One of the most serious factors contrib......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (8)
Author summary Persistent high-risk HPV infection leads viral DNA integration into the host genome and promotes viral carcinogenesis. We have been usi......
期刊: PLOS PATHOGENS, 2021; 17 (8)
Mycoviruses are an important component of the virosphere, but our current knowledge of their genome organization diversity and evolution remains rudim......