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Volume 4(9);  September 2008
Editorial
PLoS Pathogens at Three Years
Kasturi Haldar and Grant McFadden
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000167. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000167.
PMCID: PMC2533063
Review
Interfering RNA and HIV: Reciprocal Interferences
Pierre Corbeau
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000162. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000162.
PMCID: PMC2533403
Research Articles
Stable Cytotoxic T Cell Escape Mutation in Hepatitis C Virus Is Linked to Maintenance of Viral Fitness
Luke Uebelhoer, Jin-Hwan Han, Benoit Callendret, Guaniri Mateu, Naglaa H. Shoukry, Holly L. Hanson, Charles M. Rice, Christopher M. Walker, and Arash Grakoui
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000143. Published online 2008 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000143.
PMCID: PMC2518852
Listeriolysin S, a Novel Peptide Haemolysin Associated with a Subset of Lineage I Listeria monocytogenes
Paul D. Cotter, Lorraine A. Draper, Elaine M. Lawton, Karen M. Daly, David S. Groeger, Pat G. Casey, R. Paul Ross, and Colin Hill
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000144. Published online 2008 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000144.
PMCID: PMC2522273
PerR Confers Phagocytic Killing Resistance and Allows Pharyngeal Colonization by Group A Streptococcus
Ioannis Gryllos, Renata Grifantini, Annalisa Colaprico, Max E. Cary, Anders Hakansson, David W. Carey, Maria Suarez-Chavez, Leslie A. Kalish, Paul D. Mitchell, Gary L. White, and Michael R. Wessels
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000145. Published online 2008 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000145.
PMCID: PMC2518855
A New Perspective on Listeria monocytogenes Evolution
Marie Ragon, Thierry Wirth, Florian Hollandt, Rachel Lavenir, Marc Lecuit, Alban Le Monnier, and Sylvain Brisse
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000146. Published online 2008 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000146.
PMCID: PMC2518857
The Cysteine-Rich Interdomain Region from the Highly Variable Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte Membrane Protein-1 Exhibits a Conserved Structure
Michael M. Klein, Apostolos G. Gittis, Hua-Poo Su, Morris O. Makobongo, Jaime M. Moore, Sanjay Singh, Louis H. Miller, and David N. Garboczi
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000147. Published online 2008 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000147.
PMCID: PMC2518858
Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Entry: Retrograde Cell Surface Transport along Actin-Rich Protrusions
Mario Schelhaas, Helge Ewers, Minna-Liisa Rajamäki, Patricia M. Day, John T. Schiller, and Ari Helenius
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000148. Published online 2008 September 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000148.
PMCID: PMC2518865
Antibodies against a Surface Protein of Streptococcus pyogenes Promote a Pathological Inflammatory Response
Fredrik Kahn, Matthias Mörgelin, Oonagh Shannon, Anna Norrby-Teglund, Heiko Herwald, Anders I. Olin, and Lars Björck
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000149. Published online 2008 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000149.
PMCID: PMC2522270
Interferon-λ Contributes to Innate Immunity of Mice against Influenza A Virus but Not against Hepatotropic Viruses
Markus Mordstein, Georg Kochs, Laure Dumoutier, Jean-Christophe Renauld, Søren R. Paludan, Kevin Klucher, and Peter Staeheli
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000151. Published online 2008 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000151.
PMCID: PMC2522277
Endothelial Cells Support Persistent Gammaherpesvirus 68 Infection
Andrea Luísa Suárez and Linda Faye van Dyk
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000152. Published online 2008 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000152.
PMCID: PMC2526176
Protective Effect of Toll-like Receptor 4 in Pulmonary Vaccinia Infection
Martha A. Hutchens, Kathryn E. Luker, Joanne Sonstein, Gabriel Núñez, Jeffrey L. Curtis, and Gary D. Luker
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000153. Published online 2008 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000153.
PMCID: PMC2529451
Sub-Telomere Directed Gene Expression during Initiation of Invasive Aspergillosis
Andrew McDonagh, Natalie D. Fedorova, Jonathan Crabtree, Yan Yu, Stanley Kim, Dan Chen, Omar Loss, Timothy Cairns, Gustavo Goldman, Darius Armstrong-James, Ken Haynes, Hubertus Haas, Markus Schrettl, Gregory May, William C. Nierman, and Elaine Bignell
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000154. Published online 2008 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000154.
PMCID: PMC2526178
Importance of Mitochondria in Survival of Cryptococcus neoformans Under Low Oxygen Conditions and Tolerance to Cobalt Chloride
Susham S. Ingavale, Yun C. Chang, Hyeseung Lee, Carol M. McClelland, Madeline L. Leong, and Kyung J. Kwon-Chung
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000155. Published online 2008 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000155.
PMCID: PMC2528940
BSE Case Associated with Prion Protein Gene Mutation
Jürgen A. Richt and S. Mark Hall
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000156. Published online 2008 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000156.
PMCID: PMC2525843
Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus K7 Induces Viral G Protein-Coupled Receptor Degradation and Reduces Its Tumorigenicity
Hao Feng, Xiaonan Dong, Ashley Negaard, and Pinghui Feng
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000157. Published online 2008 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000157.
PMCID: PMC2529400
VCAM-1 and VLA-4 Modulate Dendritic Cell IL-12p40 Production in Experimental Visceral Leishmaniasis
Amanda C. Stanley, Jane E. Dalton, Susanna H. Rossotti, Kelli P. MacDonald, Yonghong Zhou, Fabian Rivera, Wayne A. Schroder, Asher Maroof, Geoff R. Hill, Paul M. Kaye, and Christian R. Engwerda
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000158. Published online 2008 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000158.
PMCID: PMC2528938
Interleukin-17A Mediates Acquired Immunity to Pneumococcal Colonization
Ying-Jie Lu, Jane Gross, Debby Bogaert, Adam Finn, Linda Bagrade, Qibo Zhang, Jay K. Kolls, Amit Srivastava, Anna Lundgren, Sophie Forte, Claudette M. Thompson, Kathleen F. Harney, Porter W. Anderson, Marc Lipsitch, and Richard Malley
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000159. Published online 2008 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000159.
PMCID: PMC2528945
Origin, Spread and Demography of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
Thierry Wirth, Falk Hildebrand, Caroline Allix-Béguec, Florian Wölbeling, Tanja Kubica, Kristin Kremer, Dick van Soolingen, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes, Camille Locht, Sylvain Brisse, Axel Meyer, Philip Supply, and Stefan Niemann
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000160. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000160.
PMCID: PMC2528947
Evolutionary Dynamics and Emergence of Panzootic H5N1 Influenza Viruses
Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna, Justin Bahl, Steven Riley, Lian Duan, Jin Xia Zhang, Honglin Chen, J. S. Malik Peiris, Gavin J. D. Smith, and Yi Guan
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000161. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000161.
PMCID: PMC2533123
Rapid Identification of Known and New RNA Viruses from Animal Tissues
Joseph G. Victoria, Amit Kapoor, Kent Dupuis, David P. Schnurr, and Eric L. Delwart
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000163. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000163.
PMCID: PMC2533695
Capnocytophaga canimorsus: A Human Pathogen Feeding at the Surface of Epithelial Cells and Phagocytes
Manuela Mally, Hwain Shin, Cécile Paroz, Regine Landmann, and Guy R. Cornelis
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000164. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000164.
PMCID: PMC2533406
Substrate Binding Mode and Its Implication on Drug Design for Botulinum Neurotoxin A
Desigan Kumaran, Richa Rawat, S. Ashraf Ahmed, and Subramanyam Swaminathan
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000165. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000165.
PMCID: PMC2533696
The Pseudomonas Quinolone Signal (PQS) Balances Life and Death in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Populations
Susanne Häussler and Tanja Becker
PLoS Pathog. 2008 September; 4(9): e1000166. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000166.
PMCID: PMC2533401
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