Biology & Life Sciences

Microbes & Host Cell Membrane Interactions

Published April 15, 2020 Calls for Papers Collections

From binding and altering signaling cascades at the cell surface, to membrane penetration and hijacking of intracellular host membranes, microbes and their toxins interact with host cell membranes in seemingly endless ways with sometimes devastating results for the host. In this PLOS collection featuring research from PLOS Pathogens and PLOS ONE we highlight the variety of processes used by different bacteria and viruses to interact with and use their hosts' membranes.

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PLOS Pathogens Reovirus uses macropinocytosis-mediated entry and fast axonal transport to infect neurons
February 28, 2020 Pavithra Aravamudhan, Krishnan Raghunathan, Jennifer Konopka-Anstadt, Amrita Pathak, Danica M. Sutherland, Bruce D. Carter, Terence S. Dermody
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PLOS Pathogens Single-cell glycolytic activity regulates membrane tension and HIV-1 fusion
February 21, 2020 Charles A. Coomer, Irene Carlon-Andres, Maro Iliopoulou, Michael L. Dustin, Ewoud B. Compeer, Alex A. Compton, Sergi Padilla-Parra
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PLOS Pathogens Complex nutrient channel phenotypes despite Mendelian inheritance in a Plasmodium falciparum genetic cross
February 18, 2020 Ankit Gupta, Abdullah A. B. Bokhari, Ajay D. Pillai, Anna K. Crater, Jeanine Gezelle, Gagandeep Saggu, Armiyaw S. Nasamu, Suresh M. Ganesan, Jacquin C. Niles, Sanjay A. Desai
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PLOS Pathogens Dynamic organization of Herpesvirus glycoproteins on the viral envelope revealed by super-resolution microscopy
December 2, 2019 Frauke Beilstein, Gary H. Cohen, Roselyn J. Eisenberg, Valérie Nicolas, Audrey Esclatine, David Pasdeloup
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PLOS Pathogens Coxiella burnetii Type 4B Secretion System-dependent manipulation of endolysosomal maturation is required for bacterial growtTo keep up to date on the latest research.h
December 23, 2019 Dhritiman Samanta, Tatiana M. Clemente, Baleigh E. Schuler, Stacey D. Gilk

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PLOS ONE Cytoplasmic factories, virus assembly, and DNA replication kinetics collectively constrain the formation of poxvirus recombinants
January 16, 2020 Quinten Kieser, Ryan S. Noyce, Mira Shenouda, Y.-C. James Lin, David H. Evans
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PLOS ONE Soluble lytic transglycosylase SLT of Francisella novicida is involved in intracellular growth and immune suppression
December 26, 2019 Takemasa Nakamura, Takashi Shimizu, Akihiko Uda, Kenta Watanabe, Masahisa Watarai
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PLOS ONE Glucosylceramide synthase maintains influenza virus entry and infection
February 7, 2020 Kelly Drews, Michael P. Calgi, William Casey Harrison, Camille M. Drews, Pedro Costa-Pinheiro, Jeremy Joseph Porter Shaw, Kendra A. Jobe, John D. Han, Todd E. Fox, Judith M. White, Mark Kester

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