Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

eLife reviews research covering virology, bacteriology and mycology. Learn more about what we review and sign up for the latest research.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

Latest articles

    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
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    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
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    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
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A suite of selective pressures supports the maintenance of alleles of a Drosophila immune peptide

    Sarah R Mullinax, Andrea M Darby ... Robert L Unckless
    Genetic variation in an immune peptide is maintained by multiple selective forces including an interplay between systemic immunity, sex, and the microbiome.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Synonymous mutations in AAV Rep enhance genome packaging in a library selection

    Tasfia Azim, Dru Myerscough, Jonathan J Silberg
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Helicase Loading: A back-up mechanism for replication

    Godefroid Charbon, Anders Løbner-Olesen
    A protein called PriC allows DNA replication to proceed in Escherichia coli when the complex that usually initiates this process is compromised.
    Version of Record
    Insight
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Primosomal protein PriC rescues replication initiation stress by bypassing the DnaA-DnaB interaction step for DnaB helicase loading at oriC

    Ryusei Yoshida, Kazuma Korogi ... Tsutomu Katayama
    PriC provides a bypass mechanism for compromised helicase loading at the origin of the Escherichia coli chromosome, which ensures the robustness of the chromosome replication initiation.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A bacterial regulatory uORF senses multiple classes of ribosome-targeting antibiotics

    Gabriele Baniulyte, Joseph T Wade
    An upstream open-reading frame in Escherichia coli regulates expression of the downstream genes in response to diverse translation stresses.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fast Evolution of SOS-Independent Multi-Drug Resistance in Bacteria

    Le Zhang, Yunpeng Guan ... Dayong Jin
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Identifying a novel mechanism of L-leucine uptake in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a chemical genomic approach

    Nisheeth Agarwal, Himanshu Gogoi ... Bappaditya Dey
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
Load more

Highlights

    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Malaria: explore our collection of articles

    Edited by Olivier Silvie et al.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine
    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    COVID-19: A collection of articles

    Edited by Diane M Harper et al.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    computer screen covered in numbers

    Applying deep learning to the microbiome – explore the public reviews of this recent preprint

Senior editors

  1. Bavesh Kana
    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  2. Joshua T Schiffer
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
  3. John W Schoggins
    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
  4. See more editors