Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Apparent cooperativity between human CMV virions introduces errors in conventional methods of calculating multiplicity of infection

    Christopher Peterson, Joshua Miller ... Vitaly V Ganusov
    Cooperation between individual virions of human cytomegalovirus at infecting cells leads to nonlinear scaling of cell infection probability with virion concentration.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Niche exclusion of a lung pathogen in mice with designed probiotic communities

    Kelsey E Hern, Ashlee M Phillips ... Adam P Arkin
    Probiotic communities designed to inhibit a lung pathogen through niche exclusion show promise as a novel method of preventing respiratory infection.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Multidimensional in vitro assay for antimalarial combination testing and pharmacodynamic modeling – the MULT-i2 assay

    Angela Hellingman, Christin Gumpp ... Matthias Rottmann
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An abundant merozoite surface protein of Plasmodium falciparum modulates susceptibility to inhibitory antibodies

    Isabelle G Henshall, Jill Chmielewski ... Danny W Wilson
    Pathogens can use surface proteins to limit immune responses, and the finding that merozoite surface protein 2 has this property could help in Plasmodium falciparum malaria vaccine development.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Reprogramming of host energy metabolism mediated by the TNF-iNOS-HIF-1α axis plays a key role in host resistance to Plasmodium infection

    Kely Catarine Matteucci, Nathalia PS Leite ... Ricardo T Gazzinelli
    TNF-driven metabolic reprogramming enhances glucose utilization in monocytes through inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α), promoting parasite control and host resistance during Plasmodium infection.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Three metabolic pathways replenishing the one-carbon pool collectively support growth and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes

    Sandra Freier, Sarah Frentzel ... Sven Halbedel
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-mediated fast and coordinated Ca²+ responses regulate NF-κB activation

    Fangrui Guo, Roberto Ornelas Guevara ... Guy Tran Van Nhieu
    Through low levels of extracellular ATP, EPEC induces small, rapid and coordinated Ca2+ responses in epithelial cells, a yet unreported pattern, that down-regulate inflammation at the onset of infection.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Distinct prokaryotic gut microbiome and proviral-immune axes of pathophysiology in Sickle Cell Disease

    Zachary N Flamholz, Jennifer De Los Santos ... Libusha Kelly
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Unexpected plasticity in the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei

    Carina Praisler, Jaime N Lisack ... Markus Engstler
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Solid

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