Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Synaptotagmin 1 and Synaptotagmin 7 promote MR1-mediated presentation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens

    Se-Jin Kim, Jessie C Peterson ... David M Lewinsohn
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Screening the MMV Pathogen Box reveals the mitochondrial bc1-complex as a drug target in mature Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites

    Deborah Maus, Elyzana Putrianti ... Martin Blume
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A Novel Rapid Host Cell Entry Pathway Determines Intracellular Fate of Staphylococcus aureus

    Marcel Rühling, Fabio Schmelz ... Martin J Fraunholz
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Cell surface localisation of GPI-anchored receptors in Trypanosoma brucei

    Sourav Banerjee, Nicola Minshall ... Mark Carrington
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    RNA Selectively Modulates Activity of Virulent Amyloid PSMα3 and Host Defense LL-37 via Phase Separation and Aggregation Dynamics

    Bader Rayan, Eilon Barnea ... Meytal Landau
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A Conserved Mycobacterial Nucleomodulin Hijacks the Host COMPASS Complex to Reprogram Pro-Inflammatory Transcription and Promote Intracellular Survival

    Liu Chen, Baojie Duan ... Aizhen Guo
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterial Metallophosphatase MmpE acts as a Nucleomodulin to Regulate Host Gene Expression and Promote Intracellular Survival

    Liu Chen, Baojie Duan ... Aizhen Guo
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    High-throughput neutralization measurements correlate strongly with evolutionary success of human influenza strains

    Caroline Kikawa, Andrea N Loes ... Jesse D Bloom
    High-throughput measurement of neutralization titers using a new sequencing-based assay can help explain which seasonal influenza strains spread in the human population.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Virus Evolution: Scaling up efforts to target evolving viruses

    Lin Wang, Henrik Salje
    High-throughput neutralisation tests could lead to a better understanding of the evolution of human influenza.
    Version of Record
    Insight
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The type VI secretion system governs strain maintenance in a wild mammalian gut microbiome

    Beth A Shen, Kyle L Asfahl ... Joseph D Mougous
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Exploring the evolution of influenza

    Lin Wang, Henrik Salje
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Malaria: explore our collection of articles

    Edited by Olivier Silvie et al.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine
    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    COVID-19: A collection of articles

    Edited by Diane M Harper et al.

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  1. Diane M Harper
    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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