Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A novel MARV glycoprotein-specific antibody with potentials of broad-spectrum neutralization to filovirus

    Yuting Zhang, Min Zhang ... Guojiang Chen
    A novel antibody recognizing receptor-binding region of MARV glycoprotein was developed and displays broad-spectrum neutralizing activity to filovirus species when NPC2 was fused to the N-terminus of the mAb.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Quantification of sporozoite expelling by Anopheles mosquitoes infected with laboratory and naturally circulating P. falciparum gametocytes

    Chiara Andolina, Wouter Graumans ... Teun Bousema
    The number of sporozoites expelled by mosquitoes that are infected with lab-cultured or naturally circulating Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes is heterogeneous and associated with the sporozoite load in their salivary glands.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Purine nucleosides replace cAMP in allosteric regulation of PKA in trypanosomatid pathogens

    Veronica Teresa Ober, George Boniface Githure ... Michael Boshart
    A minimal subset of two to three residues in cyclic nucleotide binding (CNB) domains controls nucleoside vs. cyclic nucleotide specificity, repurposing PKA of certain pathogens for novel nucleoside signaling pathways or sensing.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Targeting host deoxycytidine kinase mitigates Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation

    Volker Winstel, Evan R Abt ... Caius G Radu
    Host-directed therapy neutralizes a refined immuno-evasive maneuver of pathogenic staphylococci.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Potassium-mediated bacterial chemotactic response

    Chi Zhang, Rongjing Zhang, Junhua Yuan

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