Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Enteropathogenic E. coli-mediated Fast and Coordinated Ca2+ responses regulate NF-κB activation

    Fangrui Guo, Roberto Ornelas Guevara ... Guy Tran Van Nhieu
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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Ribosomal RNA methylation by GidB modulates discrimination of mischarged tRNA

    Zhuo Bi, Yu-Xiang Chen ... Babak Javid
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Quantitative RNA pseudouridine landscape reveals dynamic modification patterns and evolutionary conservation across bacterial species

    Letong Xu, Shenghai Shen ... Xin Deng
    Transcriptome-wide profiling of bacterial RNA pseudouridylation maps modification landscapes and nominates candidate regulatory sites, offering a resource and foundation for future mechanistic studies of Ψ function in bacteria.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterium tuberculosis partitions the Krebs cycle under iron starvation

    Agnese Serafini, Acely Garza-Garcia ... Riccardo Manganelli
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Membrane Binding Controls the ATPase Cycle and Localization of MinD in Bacillus subtilis

    Helge Feddersen, Charlotte Dyckmans, Marc Bramkamp
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    LFA-1 interaction with GBP-130 on Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells mediates NK cell activation and parasite control

    Osama Mukhtar, Ravi Dutt ... Pawan Malhotra
    Interaction between LFA-1 on natural killer cells and GBP-130 on infected erythrocytes enables immune recognition and killing of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Neuroscience

    Enterovirus D68 2A protease causes nuclear pore complex dysfunction and independently contributes to motor neuron toxicity

    Katrina M Zinn, Mathew W McLaren ... Matthew J Elrick
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fusion Loop Modified and Mature Dengue Virus Elicits Protective Serum with Minimal Antibody Dependent Enhancement

    Yago R Dalben, Jacob J Adler ... Longping V Tse
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Starvation of the bacterium Vibrio atlanticus induces simultaneous attacks on the dinoflagellate Alexandrium pacificum

    Jean Luc Rolland, Estelle Masseret ... Raphaël Lami
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Diet-conditioned microbiota enhances fecal microbiota transplantation efficacy in alcoholic liver disease through caproic acid-PPARα signaling

    Nishu Choudhary, Ashi Mittal ... Shvetank Sharma
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
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Highlights

    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Gut Microbiome: Bacteria weigh up costs and benefits of mobile weapons

    Zhao Wang, Yang Fu
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    3. Medicine

    Focus Issue: Trained Immunity

    Edited by Satyajit Rath et al.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Tuberculosis: A surprising new hiding place for a dangerous pathogen

    Sheetal Gandotra, Yogendra Singh

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