Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Serratia marcescens Outer Membrane Vesicles rapidly paralyze Drosophila melanogaster through triggering apoptosis in the nervous system

    Bechara Sina Rahme, Roberto E Bruna ... Dominique Ferrandon
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Incomplete
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Timely vaccine strain selection and genomic surveillance improve evolutionary forecast accuracy of seasonal influenza A/H3N2

    John Huddleston, Trevor Bedford
    Reducing vaccine development time from 12 months to 6 reduces forecasting error by 25%, while reducing lags in genome sequence submission reduces uncertainty of current clade frequencies by 50%.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Peptidoglycan recycling is critical for cell division, cell wall integrity and β-lactam resistance in Caulobacter crescentus

    Pia Richter, Anna Merz ... Martin Thanbichler
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    • Valuable
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bivalent mRNA booster encoding virus-like particles elicits potent polyclass RBD antibodies in pre-vaccinated mice

    Chengcheng Fan, Alexander A Cohen ... Magnus AG Hoffmann
    Not revised
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    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fish CDK2 recruits Dtx4 to degrade TBK1 through ubiquitination in the antiviral response

    Long-Feng Lu, Can Zhang ... Shun Li
    Revised
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Glycosylated IgG antibodies contribute to the recovery of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome patients

    Chuansong Quan, Lu Wang ... Haifeng Hou
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Dark matter of an orchid: metagenome of the microbiome associated with the rhizosphere of Dactylorhiza traunsteineri

    Gabriel A Vignolle, Leopold Zehetner ... Julien Charest
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Neisseria gonorrhoeae LIN codes: a Robust, Multi-Resolution Lineage Nomenclature

    Anastasia Unitt, Made Krisna ... Odile B Harrison
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Structural basis for collagen recognition by the Streptococcus pyogenes M3 protein and its involvement in biofilm

    Marta Wojnowska, Takeaki Wajima ... Ulrich Schwarz-Linek
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    • Important
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The Shigella flexneri effector IpaH1.4 facilitates RNF213 degradation and protects cytosolic bacteria against interferon-induced ubiquitylation

    Luz Saavedra-Sanchez, Mary S Dickinson ... Jorn Coers
    The enteric bacterial Shigella secretes a virulence factor that degrades the pivotal human defense protein RNF213, thereby protecting cytosolic bacteria from interferon-driven ubiquitylation and associated innate immunity.
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    Yizhou Huang, Teresa LM Thurston
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine
    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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