Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Distinct allosteric remodeling of HIV-1 Env dynamics on virions by gp41-directed antibodies reveals two modes of neutralization

    Wang Xu, Narendra Kumar Gonepudi ... Maolin Lu
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The C3–C3aR axis modulates trained immunity in alveolar macrophages

    Alexander P Earhart, Alberto E Lopez ... Hrishikesh S Kulkarni
    Complement component C3, a key component of immune responses at mucosal sites, affects alveolar macrophage reprogramming via the C3aR.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    In vitro sexual dimorphism establishment in schistosomes

    Rémi Pichon, Magda E Lotkowska ... Gabriel Rinaldi
    Establishment of sexually dimorphic schistosomes entirely in vitro from mechanically transformed cercariae paves the way for uncovering the cellular and molecular cues underlying development, providing potential targets for novel control strategies.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    REPOP: bacterial population quantification from plate counts

    Pedro Pessoa, Carol Yunxiao Lu ... Steve Pressé
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Reprogrammed peptidoglycan elongation reveals plasticity in bacterial growth modes

    Carolina Basurto De Santiago, Isabella S Lin, Beiyan Nan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Human CD1c-autoreactive T-cells recognise Mycobacterium tuberculosis–infected antigen-presenting cells and display cytotoxic effector programmes

    Matthew Milton, Sahar H Farag ... Salah Mansour
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Meteorological Drivers of Influenza A and B Positivity in a Subtropical Chinese City: A Six-Year Surveillance Study Integrating Distributed Lag Non-Linear Models and Deep Learning

    Long Xie, Meng-Jie Zhang ... Xi-Wen Jiang
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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
    The ribosomal rRNA methyltransferase GidB is involved in the discrimination of mischarged tRNAs in mycobacteria.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Genomic analysis of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing community-acquired respiratory deaths among Zambian infants and children using targeted RNA-probe hybridization-capture metagenomics

    Kenneth Lindstedt, Alyse Wheelock ... Christopher J Gill
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A novel mechanism for bacterial sporulation based on programmed peptidoglycan degradation

    Carlos A Ramírez Carbó, Oihane Irazoki ... Beiyan Nan
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Focus Issue: Trained Immunity

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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

    Zhao Wang, Yang Fu
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Tuberculosis: A surprising new hiding place for a dangerous pathogen

    Sheetal Gandotra, Yogendra Singh

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