Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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

    Jean-Luc Rolland, Estelle Masseret ... Raphael Lami
    Vibrio bacteria act as predators of ecologically significant algae that contribute to harmful blooms.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Niche exclusion of a lung pathogen in mice with designed probiotic communities

    Kelsey E Hern, Ashlee M Phillips ... Adam P Arkin
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A dual role for PGLYRP1 in host defense and immune regulation during B. pertussis infection

    David M Rickert, Sasha Cardozo ... Ciaran Skerry
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A macroevolution-inspired approach to reveal novel antibiotic resistance mechanisms

    Fernanda T Subtil, Teresa FG Machado ... Luiz Pedro S de Carvalho
    Using macroevolution, species not strains, uncovered important diversity in how mycobacteria respond to and resist antibiotics, revealing novel resistance determinants.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Membrane binding controls the ATPase cycle and localization of MinD in Bacillus subtilis

    Helge Feddersen, Charlotte Dyckmans, Marc Bramkamp
    Dynamic relocalization of MinD in Bacillus subtilis arises from membrane binding of monomers and dimers with membrane-triggered ATP hydrolysis, suggesting MinE-like activators are unnecessary for Min system dynamics.
    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.

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