Below are the most recent publications written about "Virulence Factors" by people in Profiles.
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Fleck RC, Gorodyna O, Zhou H, Bryant H, Gadjeva M, Shea AE. Emerging pathogens in urinary tract infections: virulence and phenotypic characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. mSphere. 2026 Jun 30; 11(6):e0015126.
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Basham KJ, Ward RA, Vyas JM, Nolling Jensen K. Immunomodulatory functions of fungal melanins in respiratory infections. mBio. 2026 01 14; 17(1):e0214125.
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Chauhan K, Datta D, Kapoor Y, Passricha N, Dutt R, Arora N, Das M, Rao K, Singh L, Gautam A, Sharma RD, Sarkar B, Yadav M, Malakar B, Kalam H, Saini P, Mehra L, Das P, Ahuja V, Singhal A, Nandicoori V, Kumar D. A Mycobacterium tuberculosis secreted virulence factor Rv1435c/hsr1 disrupts host snRNP biogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jul 08; 122(27):e2423349122.
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Zhou H, Negr?n O, Abbondante S, Marshall M, Jones B, Ong E, Chumbler N, Tunkey C, Dixon G, Lin H, Plante O, Pearlman E, Gadjeva M. Spatial transcriptomics identifies novel Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence factors. Cell Genom. 2025 Mar 12; 5(3):100805.
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Sung K, Nawaz M, Park M, Chon J, Khan SA, Alotaibi K, Khan AA. Comprehensive Genomic Analysis of Uropathogenic E. coli: Virulence Factors, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Mobile Genetic Elements. Pathogens. 2024 Sep 13; 13(9).
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Mittal E, Prasad GVRK, Upadhyay S, Sadadiwala J, Olive AJ, Yang G, Sassetti CM, Philips JA. Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence lipid PDIM inhibits autophagy in mice. Nat Microbiol. 2024 Nov; 9(11):2970-2984.
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Mirza Z, Walhout AJM, Ambros V. A bacterial pathogen induces developmental slowing by high reactive oxygen species and mitochondrial dysfunction in Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell Rep. 2023 10 31; 42(10):113189.
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Sephton-Clark P, McConnell SA, Grossman N, Baker RP, Dragotakes Q, Fan Y, Fu MS, Gerbig G, Greengo S, Hardwick JM, Kulkarni M, Levitz SM, Nosanchuk JD, Shoham S, Smith DFQ, Stempinski P, Timp W, Wear MP, Cuomo CA, Casadevall A. Similar evolutionary trajectories in an environmental Cryptococcus neoformans isolate after human and murine infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 01 10; 120(2):e2217111120.
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Sitaram A, Yin Y, Zamaitis T, Zhang B, Aroian RV. A Caenorhabditis elegans nck-1 and filamentous actin-regulating protein pathway mediates a key cellular defense against bacterial pore-forming proteins. PLoS Pathog. 2022 11; 18(11):e1010656.
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Grace CA, Sousa Carvalho KS, Sousa Lima MI, Costa Silva V, Reis-Cunha JL, Brune MJ, Forrester S, Pedrozo E Silva de Azevedo CM, Costa DL, Speed D, Mottram JC, Jeffares DC, Costa CHN. Parasite Genotype Is a Major Predictor of Mortality from Visceral Leishmaniasis. mBio. 2022 12 20; 13(6):e0206822.