Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    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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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Reprogramming of host energy metabolism mediated by the TNF-iNOS-HIF-1α axis plays a key role in host resistance to Plasmodium infection

    Kely C Matteucci, Nathalia PS Leite ... Ricardo T Gazzinelli
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Reactive Oxygen Detoxification Contributes to Mycobacterium abscessus Antibiotic Survival

    Nicholas A Bates, Ronald Rodriguez ... Bennett H Penn
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterium tuberculosis suppresses protective Th17 responses during infection

    Alex Zilinskas, Amir Balakhmet ... Sarah A Stanley
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Automated genome mining predicts structural diversity and taxonomic distribution of peptide metallophores across bacteria

    Zachary L Reitz, Bita Pourmohsenin ... Marnix H Medema
    Automated detection of metallophore biosynthesis reveals that metal-chelating non-ribosomal peptides are widespread, chemically diverse, and deeply rooted in bacterial evolution.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Should I stay or should I go? Spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial biofilms in confined flows

    Massinissa Benbelkacem, Gabriel Ramos ... Yohan Davit
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Evaluation of antibiotic and peptide vaccine strategies for mirror bacterial infections

    Alexander Kleinman, Joe Torres, Brian Wang
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Global transcription factors analyses reveal hierarchy and synergism of regulatory networks and master virulence regulators in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Jiadai Huang, Yue Sun ... Xin Deng
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Chemostat culturing reduces fecal eukaryotic virus load and delays diarrhea after virome transplantation

    Simone Margaard Offersen, Signe Adamberg ... Anders Brunse
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An abundant merozoite surface protein of Plasmodium falciparum modulates susceptibility to inhibitory antibodies

    Isabelle G Henshall, Jill Chmielewski ... Danny W Wilson
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    Lin Wang, Henrik Salje
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    University of Michigan, United States
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    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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