Table of Contents | November 2008

Immunological Mechanisms Mediating Hantavirus Persistence in Rodent Reservoirs

Judith D. Easterbrook, Sabra L. Klein

Stage-Specific Sampling by Pattern Recognition Receptors during Candida albicans Phagocytosis

Sigrid E. M. Heinsbroek, Philip R. Taylor, Fernando O. Martinez, Luisa Martinez-Pomares, Gordon D. Brown, Siamon Gordon

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Small RNAs with 5′-Polyphosphate Termini Associate with a Piwi-Related Protein and Regulate Gene Expression in the Single-Celled Eukaryote Entamoeba histolytica

Hanbang Zhang, Gretchen M. Ehrenkaufer, Justine M. Pompey, Jason A. Hackney, Upinder Singh

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Type IV Secretion-Dependent Activation of Host MAP Kinases Induces an Increased Proinflammatory Cytokine Response to Legionella pneumophila

Sunny Shin, Christopher L. Case, Kristina A. Archer, Catarina V. Nogueira, Koichi S. Kobayashi, Richard A. Flavell, Craig R. Roy, Dario S. Zamboni

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Migratory Dermal Dendritic Cells Act as Rapid Sensors of Protozoan Parasites

Lai Guan Ng, Alice Hsu, Michael A. Mandell, Ben Roediger, Christoph Hoeller, Paulus Mrass, Amaya Iparraguirre, Lois L. Cavanagh, James A. Triccas, Stephen M. Beverley, Phillip Scott, Wolfgang Weninger

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snoRNA, a Novel Precursor of microRNA in Giardia lamblia

Ashesh A. Saraiya, Ching C. Wang

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Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-Based Ebola Vaccine Is Well-Tolerated and Protects Immunocompromised Nonhuman Primates

Thomas W. Geisbert, Kathleen M. Daddario-DiCaprio, Mark G. Lewis, Joan B. Geisbert, Allen Grolla, Anders Leung, Jason Paragas, Lennox Matthias, Mark A. Smith, Steven M. Jones, Lisa E. Hensley, Heinz Feldmann, Peter B. Jahrling

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A Structural Model of the Staphylococcus aureus ClfA–Fibrinogen Interaction Opens New Avenues for the Design of Anti-Staphylococcal Therapeutics

Vannakambadi K. Ganesh, Jose J. Rivera, Emanuel Smeds, Ya-Ping Ko, M. Gabriela Bowden, Elisabeth R. Wann, Shivasankarappa Gurusiddappa, J. Ross Fitzgerald, Magnus Höök

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GEF-H1 Mediated Control of NOD1 Dependent NF-κB Activation by Shigella Effectors

Atsuko Fukazawa, Carmen Alonso, Kiyotaka Kurachi, Sonal Gupta, Cammie F. Lesser, Beth Ann McCormick, Hans-Christian Reinecker

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Role of Amphipathic Helix of a Herpesviral Protein in Membrane Deformation and T Cell Receptor Downregulation

Chan-Ki Min, Sun-Young Bang, Bon-A Cho, Yun-Hui Choi, Jae-Seong Yang, Sun-Hwa Lee, Seung-Yong Seong, Ki Woo Kim, Sanguk Kim, Jae Ung Jung, Myung-Sik Choi, Ik-Sang Kim, Nam-Hyuk Cho

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The Bicarbonate Transporter Is Essential for Bacillus anthracis Lethality

Adam C. Wilson, Magali Soyer, James A. Hoch, Marta Perego

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Interrelationship between Dendritic Cell Trafficking and Francisella tularensis Dissemination following Airway Infection

Erez Bar-Haim, Orit Gat, Gal Markel, Hila Cohen, Avigdor Shafferman, Baruch Velan

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Newly Discovered Ebola Virus Associated with Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Uganda

Jonathan S. Towner, Tara K. Sealy, Marina L. Khristova, César G. Albariño, Sean Conlan, Serena A. Reeder, Phenix-Lan Quan, W. Ian Lipkin, Robert Downing, Jordan W. Tappero, Samuel Okware, Julius Lutwama, Barnabas Bakamutumaho, John Kayiwa, James A. Comer, Pierre E. Rollin, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Stuart T. Nichol

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Extracellular DNA Chelates Cations and Induces Antibiotic Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms

Heidi Mulcahy, Laetitia Charron-Mazenod, Shawn Lewenza

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A Genetically Hard-Wired Metabolic Transcriptome in Plasmodium falciparum Fails to Mount Protective Responses to Lethal Antifolates

Karthikeyan Ganesan, Napawan Ponmee, Lei Jiang, Joseph W. Fowble, John White, Sumalee Kamchonwongpaisan, Yongyuth Yuthavong, Prapon Wilairat, Pradipsinh K. Rathod

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A Critical Role of a Cellular Membrane Traffic Protein in Poliovirus RNA Replication

George A. Belov, Qian Feng, Krisztina Nikovics, Catherine L. Jackson, Ellie Ehrenfeld

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The Hyphal-Associated Adhesin and Invasin Als3 of Candida albicans Mediates Iron Acquisition from Host Ferritin

Ricardo S. Almeida, Sascha Brunke, Antje Albrecht, Sascha Thewes, Michael Laue, John E. Edwards Jr, Scott G. Filler, Bernhard Hube

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Rac1 Is Required for Pathogenicity and Chm1-Dependent Conidiogenesis in Rice Fungal Pathogen Magnaporthe grisea

Jisheng Chen, Wu Zheng, Shiqin Zheng, Dongmei Zhang, Weijian Sang, Xiao Chen, Guangpu Li, Guodong Lu, Zonghua Wang

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Cryoelectron Tomography of HIV-1 Envelope Spikes: Further Evidence for Tripod-Like Legs

Ping Zhu, Hanspeter Winkler, Elena Chertova, Kenneth A. Taylor, Kenneth H. Roux

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Alteration of Blood–Brain Barrier Integrity by Retroviral Infection

Philippe V. Afonso, Simona Ozden, Marie-Christine Cumont, Danielle Seilhean, Luis Cartier, Payam Rezaie, Sarah Mason, Sophie Lambert, Michel Huerre, Antoine Gessain, Pierre-Olivier Couraud, Claudine Pique, Pierre-Emmanuel Ceccaldi, Ignacio A. Romero

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Resistance of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Prions to Inactivation

Kurt Giles, David V. Glidden, Robyn Beckwith, Rose Seoanes, David Peretz, Stephen J. DeArmond, Stanley B. Prusiner

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The Host Cell Sulfonation Pathway Contributes to Retroviral Infection at a Step Coincident with Provirus Establishment

James W. Bruce, Paul Ahlquist, John A. T. Young

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Key Role of Splenic Myeloid DCs in the IFN-αβ Response to Adenoviruses In Vivo

György Fejer, Lisa Drechsel, Jan Liese, Ulrike Schleicher, Zsolt Ruzsics, Nicola Imelli, Urs F. Greber, Simone Keck, Bernd Hildenbrand, Anne Krug, Christian Bogdan, Marina A. Freudenberg

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Foamy Macrophages from Tuberculous Patients' Granulomas Constitute a Nutrient-Rich Reservoir for M. tuberculosis Persistence

Pascale Peyron, Julien Vaubourgeix, Yannick Poquet, Florence Levillain, Catherine Botanch, Fabienne Bardou, Mamadou Daffé, Jean-François Emile, Bruno Marchou, Pere-Joan Cardona, Chantal de Chastellier, Frédéric Altare

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Influenza A Virus Inhibits Type I IFN Signaling via NF-κB-Dependent Induction of SOCS-3 Expression

Eva-K. Pauli, Mirco Schmolke, Thorsten Wolff, Dorothee Viemann, Johannes Roth, Johannes G. Bode, Stephan Ludwig

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Broadening of Neutralization Activity to Directly Block a Dominant Antibody-Driven SARS-Coronavirus Evolution Pathway

Jianhua Sui, Daniel R. Aird, Azaibi Tamin, Akikazu Murakami, Meiying Yan, Anuradha Yammanuru, Huaiqi Jing, Biao Kan, Xin Liu, Quan Zhu, Qing-an Yuan, Gregory P. Adams, William J. Bellini, Jianguo Xu, Larry J. Anderson, Wayne A. Marasco

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Urea-Mediated Cross-Presentation of Soluble Epstein-Barr Virus BZLF1 Protein

Sascha Barabas, Regina Gary, Tanja Bauer, Juha Lindner, Petra Lindner, Birgit Weinberger, Wolfgang Jilg, Hans Wolf, Ludwig Deml

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A Sterol-Regulatory Element Binding Protein Is Required for Cell Polarity, Hypoxia Adaptation, Azole Drug Resistance, and Virulence in Aspergillus fumigatus

Sven D. Willger, Srisombat Puttikamonkul, Kwang-Hyung Kim, James B. Burritt, Nora Grahl, Laurel J. Metzler, Robert Barbuch, Martin Bard, Christopher B. Lawrence, Robert A. Cramer Jr.

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Kinome-Wide RNAi Screen Implicates at Least 5 Host Hepatocyte Kinases in Plasmodium Sporozoite Infection

Miguel Prudêncio, Cristina D. Rodrigues, Michael Hannus, Cécilie Martin, Eliana Real, Lígia A. Gonçalves, Céline Carret, Robert Dorkin, Ingo Röhl, Kerstin Jahn-Hoffmann, Adrian J. F. Luty, Robert Sauerwein, Christophe J. Echeverri, Maria M. Mota

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