Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A within-host infection model to explore tolerance and resistance

    David Duneau, Pierre DM Lafont ... Jean-Baptiste Ferdy
    A mathematical model of pathogen within-host dynamics and experimental validations elucidates the interplay between immune response, damage and pathogen proliferation, highlighting the limitations of current experimental proxies and proposing new methods to better understand host resistance and disease tolerance.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A general mechanism for initiating the bacterial general stress response

    Rishika Baral, Kristin Ho ... Niels Bradshaw
    A coiled-coil-based transduction mechanism is identified for a serine/threonine phosphatase that controls a bacterial stress response, suggesting that phosphatases are part of a modularly exchangeable toolkit for bacterial signaling.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Chalkophore-mediated respiratory oxidase flexibility controls M. tuberculosis virulence

    John A Buglino, Yaprak Ozakman ... Michael S Glickman
    M. tuberculosis produces a copper binding diisonitrile chalkophore to maintain the copper-dependent respiratory oxidase during infection, identifying a pathogen strategy that defends oxidative phosphorylation against host attack.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Myosin light chain 3 serves as a receptor for nervous necrosis virus entry into host cells via the macropinocytosis pathway

    Lan Yao, Wanwan Zhang ... Kuntong Jia
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    High-throughput neutralization measurements correlate strongly with evolutionary success of human influenza strains

    Caroline Kikawa, Andrea N Loes ... Jesse D Bloom
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    My Tran, Angel J Hernandez Viera ... Charlie Y Mo
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Cell Surface Receptors: Virus attacks fish by muscling its way into cells

    Ping-Ping Liu, Zhe Wei, Xian-Wei Wang
    Nervous necrosis virus typically enters host cells via endocytosis, but it can also enter via a process called macropinocytosis.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Cellular coordination underpins rapid reversals in gliding filamentous cyanobacteria and its loss results in plectonemes

    Jerko Rosko, Kelsey Cremin ... Orkun S Soyer
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Transcriptional antitermination integrates the expression of loci of diverse phage origin in the chimeric Bartonella Gene Transfer Agent BaGTA

    Aleksandr Korotaev, Quirin Niggli ... Christoph Dehio
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Structure of an oxygen-induced tubular nanocompartment in Pyrococcus furiosus

    Wenfei Song, Jan Fiala ... Friedrich Förster
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
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Highlights

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Receptors versus viruses

    Ping-Ping Liu, Zhe Wei, Xian-Wei Wang
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A back-up mechanism for replication

    Godefroid Charbon, Anders Løbner-Olesen
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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