Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An Advanced Bacterial Single-cell RNA-seq Reveals Biofilm Heterogeneity

    Yingying Pu, Xiaodan Yan ... Chunming Guo
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Chemokine expression profile of an innate granuloma

    Megan E Amason, Cole J Beatty ... Edward A Miao
    A successful innate granuloma requires CCR2 to organize the macrophage ring, and without CCR2, mice succumb to Chromobacterium violaceum infection.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An antimicrobial drug recommender system using MALDI-TOF MS and dual-branch neural networks

    Gaetan De Waele, Willem Waegeman, Gerben Menschaert
    It is possible to accurately recommend antimicrobial drugs from mass spectra using neural networks and large datasets, paving the way for more efficient clinical diagnostics.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Malaria parasites require a divergent heme oxygenase for apicoplast gene expression and biogenesis

    Amanda Mixon Blackwell, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi ... Paul A Sigala
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Temporal dynamics of viral fitness and the adaptive immune response in HCV infection

    Melanie R Walker, Preston Leung ... Rowena A Bull
    Not yet revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin

    Ying Liu, Rajani Karmakar ... Martin Thanbichler
    Not yet revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Akkermansia muciniphila identified as key strain to alleviate gut barrier injury through Wnt signaling pathway

    Xin Ma, Li Meng ... Xinyan Han
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    Reviewed Preprint v4
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Plant Biology

    Root cap cell corpse clearance limits microbial colonization in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Nyasha Charura, Ernesto Llamas ... Alga Zuccaro
    Programmed cell death during plant development (dPCD) is crucial for Arabidopsis thaliana root defense, limiting microbial invasion and maintaining a balanced relationship with beneficial microbes.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Temporal transcriptional response of Candida glabrata during macrophage infection reveals a multifaceted transcriptional regulator CgXbp1 important for macrophage response and fluconazole resistance

    Maruti Nandan Rai, Qing Lan ... Koon Ho Wong
    The dynamic transcription responses of the human fungal pathogen Candida glabrata during macrophage infection is revealed and a novel transcription factor important for the responses to macrophage, proliferation within macrophage, as well as anti-fungal drug resistance has been discovered.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Dynamics of antimicrobial resistance and virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Dublin

    Cheryll M Sia, Rebecca L Ambrose ... Danielle J Ingle
    Not yet revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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