Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Environmental temperature is a strong driver of subspecies competition in the Drosophila microbiome

    Bosco Gracia-Alvira, Stefanie Migotti ... Christian Schlötterer
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    LFA-1 Interaction with GBP-130 on Plasmodium falciparum-infected Red Blood Cells mediates NK Cell Activation and Parasite Control

    Osama Mukhtar, Ravi Dutt ... Pawan Malhotra
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Host and antibiotic jointly select for greater virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

    Michelle Su, Kim L Hoang ... Timothy D Read
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Defining the Antigenic Topology and Prospective Binding Breadth of Vaccination-induced SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies

    Deepika Jaiswal, Clara G Altomare ... Goran Bajic
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    RadD from Fusobacterium nucleatum engages NKp46 to promote antitumor cytotoxicity

    Ahmed Rishiq, Johanna Galaski ... Ofer Mandelboim
    RadD recognition by NKp46 converts Fusobacterium nucleatum from an immune-evasive pathogen into a trigger of natural killer cell-mediated tumor control in a context-dependent manner.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bivalent mRNA booster encoding virus-like particles elicits potent polyclass receptor-binding domain antibodies in pre-vaccinated mice

    Chengcheng Fan, Alexander A Cohen ... Magnus AG Hoffmann
    Bivalent EABR mRNA boosters broaden neutralizing responses to Omicron subvariants by promoting diverse receptor-binding domain epitope targeting, although antibody responses remain partially shaped by immune imprinting from prior vaccination.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A rapid transfer of virions coated with heparan sulfate from the ECM to CD151 defines an early step in the human papillomavirus infection cascade

    Annika Massenberg, Yahya Homsi ... Thorsten Lang
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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

    Jean Luc Rolland, Estelle Masseret ... Raphaël Lami
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Neuroscience

    The olfactory receptor SNIF-1 mediates foraging for leucine-enriched diets in C. elegans

    Ritika Siddiqui, Nikita Mehta ... Varsha Singh
    Behavioral analyses combined with genetics revealed that Caenorhabditis elegans uses an olfactory receptor-ligand module to forage for essential nutrients.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Redirection of SARS-CoV-2 to Phagocytes by Intranasal sACE2-Fc as a Universal Decoy Confers Complete Prophylactic Protection

    Jingyi Wang, Jiangchuan Li ... Bo Feng
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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

    Zhao Wang, Yang Fu
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    3. Medicine

    Focus Issue: Trained Immunity

    Edited by Satyajit Rath et al.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Tuberculosis: A surprising new hiding place for a dangerous pathogen

    Sheetal Gandotra, Yogendra Singh

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