Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The structural context of mutations in proteins predicts their effect on antibiotic resistance

    Anna G Green, Mahbuba Tasmin ... Maha R Farhat
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Loss of the s2U tRNA modification induces antibiotic tolerance and is linked to changes in ribosomal protein expression

    Katherine L Cotten, Abigail McShane ... Kimberly M Davis
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A system for functional studies of the major virulence factor of malaria parasites

    Jakob Cronshagen, Johannes Allweier ... Tobias Spielmann
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Evolution of a fuzzy ribonucleoprotein complex in viral assembly

    Huaying Zhao, Tiansheng Li ... Peter Schuck
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The impact of different antimicrobial exposures on the gut microbiome in the ARMORD observational study

    Leon Peto, Nicola Fawcett ... Ann Sarah Walker
    Metagenomic sequencing of stool samples from 225 hospital patients and healthy volunteers reveals the impact of different antimicrobial exposures on the gut microbiome.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Functional genomics reveals strain-specific genetic requirements conferring hypoxic growth in Mycobacterium intracellulare

    Yoshitaka Tateishi, Yuriko Ozeki ... Sohkichi Matsumoto
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v4
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Tuberculosis: A surprising new hiding place for a dangerous pathogen

    Sheetal Gandotra, Yogendra Singh
    The bacterium that causes TB can hide in liver cells called hepatocytes, and reprogram their metabolism for its own benefit.
    Version of Record
    Insight
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    PPARγ mediated enhanced lipid biogenesis fuels Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth in a drug-tolerant hepatocyte environment

    Binayak Sarkar, Jyotsna Singh ... Rajesh S Gokhale
    In vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo studies reveal that hepatocytes are significantly infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis which rewires the host cell metabolism to upregulate the lipid biosynthetic pathways.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A modular platform to display multiple hemagglutinin subtypes on a single immunogen

    Dana Thornlow Lamson, Faez Amokrane Nait Mohamed ... Aaron G Schmidt
    BOAS is a platform for building multivalent viral protein immunogens without a scaffold, such as a nanoparticle, to elicit broad influenza vaccine responses.
    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
    • Important
    • Solid
    • Incomplete

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    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
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