Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    Protection afforded by post-infection SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses: a cohort study in Shanghai

    Bo Zheng, Bronner Gonçalves ... Caoyi Xue
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Aeromonas hydrophila CobQ is a new type of NAD+- and Zn2+- independent protein lysine deacetylase

    Yuqian Wang, Guibin Wang ... Xiangmin Lin
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    The penetration ring is a novel infection structure formed by the penetration peg for invading plant cell membrane in rice blast fungus

    Wenqin Fang, Xiaoyu Zai ... Wenhui Zheng
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    2. Plant Biology

    Root cap cell corpse clearance limits microbial colonization in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Nyasha M Charura, Ernesto Llamas ... Alga Zuccaro
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    Dimer-monomer transition defines a hyper-thermostable peptidoglycan hydrolase mined from bacterial proteome by lysin-derived antimicrobial peptide-primed screening

    Li Zhang, Fen Hu ... Hang Yang
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    Linalool’s Multifaceted Antimicrobial Potential: Unveiling its Antimicrobial Efficacy and Immunomodulatory Role Against Saprolegnia parasitica

    Tao Tang, Weiming Zhong ... Zhipeng Gao
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    Peptidoglycan-Chi3l1 interaction shapes gut microbiota in intestinal mucus layer

    Yan Chen, Ruizhi Yang ... Zhao Shan
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    Peptidoglycan-tethered and free forms of the Braun lipoprotein are in dynamic equilibrium in Escherichia coli

    Yucheng Liang, Jean-Emmanuel Hugonnet ... Michel Arthur
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    A lytic transglycosylase connects bacterial focal adhesion complexes to the peptidoglycan cell wall

    Carlos A Ramírez Carbó, Olalekan G Faromiki, Beiyan Nan
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A General Mechanism for the General Stress Response in Bacteria

    Rishika Baral, Kristin Ho ... Niels Bradshaw
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    Malaria: explore our collection of articles

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    COVID-19: A collection of articles

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Senior editors

  1. Wendy S Garrett
    Wendy S Garrett
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
  2. Diane M Harper
    University of Michigan, United States
  3. Dominique Soldati-Favre
    University of Geneva, Switzerland
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