Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    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
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    CARD8 inflammasome activation during HIV-1 cell-to-cell transmission

    Jessie Kulsuptrakul, Michael Emerman, Patrick S Mitchell
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Medicine
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HERV activation segregates ME/CFS from fibromyalgia while defining a novel nosologic entity

    Karen Giménez-Orenga, Eva Martín-Martínez ... Elisa Oltra
    Transcriptomic profiling of HERV elements at the loci level differentiates ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and their overlap, revealing distinct immuno-epigenetic landscapes.
    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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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Complex system modeling reveals oxalate homeostasis is driven by diverse oxalate-degrading bacteria

    Sromona D Mukherjee, Carlos Batagello ... Aaron W Miller
    Microbiome composition through the redundancy of oxalate-degrading bacteria, critically influence oxalate metabolism, explaining variable outcomes of Oxalobacter formigenes therapy and offers insights for improving probiotic selection and clinical trial strategies.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Interpreting roles of mutations associated with the emergence of S. aureus USA300 strains using transcriptional regulatory network reconstruction

    Saugat Poudel, Jason Hyun ... Bernhard O Palsson
    Transcriptional regulatory network models can aid in identifying candidate genes associated with the target phenotype in bacterial genome-wide association studies.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Scrutinized lipid utilization disrupts Amphotericin-B responsiveness in clinical isolates of Leishmania donovani

    Supratim Pradhan, Dhruba Dhar ... Budhaditya Mukherjee
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor influences periarticular joint inflammation in B. burgdorferi-infected mice

    Qian Yu, Xiaotian Tang ... Erol Fikrig
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Valuable
    • Solid

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