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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A pH-dependent cluster of charges in a conserved cryptic pocket on flaviviral envelopes

    Lorena Zuzic, Jan K Marzinek ... Peter J Bond
    Benzene mapping simulations of envelope protein rafts from six different flaviviruses reveal a conserved cryptic site whose cluster of ionisable residues is likely responsible for orchestrating pH-dependent conformational changes during fusion, thereby representing an attractive target for antiviral development.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Antigenic mapping and functional characterization of human New World hantavirus neutralizing antibodies

    Taylor B Engdahl, Elad Binshtein ... James E Crowe
    Human antibodies that neutralize New World hantaviruses are promising for prevention or treatment of these high-priority emerging pathogens carried by rodents and transmitted to humans by aerosolized excreta or, in rare cases, person-to-person contact.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural features stabilized by divalent cation coordination within hepatitis E virus ORF1 are critical for viral replication

    Robert LeDesma, Brigitte Heller ... Alexander Ploss
    A combined computational, genetic, and biochemical analysis of the hepatitis E virus open reading frame 1 (ORF1) protein identifies a novel domain-domain interaction that is vital for fitness and supports a proposed structural model of the ORF1 polyprotein.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Architecture of the chikungunya virus replication organelle

    Timothée Laurent, Pravin Kumar ... Lars-Anders Carlson
    The combination of cellular cryo-electron tomography, biochemistry, and mathematical modeling provides the first integrated structural model of the Alphavirus replication organelle.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Zika virus causes placental pyroptosis and associated adverse fetal outcomes by activating GSDME

    Zikai Zhao, Qi Li ... Jing Ye
    Zika virus infection induces the gasdermin E-mediated pyroptosis in placental cells through TNF-α-caspase-8-caspase-3 signaling pathway, which contributes to adverse fetal outcomes in pregnant mouse model.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Targeting the Annexin A1-FPR2/ALX pathway for host-directed therapy in dengue disease

    Vivian Vasconcelos Costa, Michelle A Sugimoto ... Mauro Martins Teixeira
    An inadequate engagement of the inflammation resolution circuit centred on Annexin A1 contributes to the excessive inflammation observed in severe DENV infection, suggesting FPR2/ALX agonists as a therapeutic target for dengue disease.
    1. Cell Biology

    Capping protein regulates endosomal trafficking by controlling F-actin density around endocytic vesicles and recruiting RAB5 effectors

    Dawei Wang, Zuodong Ye ... Jianbo Yue
    CapZ controls actin filament density around immature early endosomes via its C-terminal domain to facilitate the homotypic fusion of the endocytic vesicles, and it functions as a scaffold protein via its N-terminal domain to recruit RAB5 effectors to early endosomes.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase by nucleotide analogs from a single-molecule perspective

    Mona Seifert, Subhas C Bera ... David Dulin
    High-throughput and ultra-stable magnetic tweezers reveal that Remdesivir induces a long-lived backtrack pause upon incorporation by the coronavirus polymerase, and SARS-CoV-2 is able to evade interferon-induced antiviral ddhCTP.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Evolution of pathogen tolerance and emerging infections: A missing experimental paradigm

    Srijan Seal, Guha Dharmarajan, Imroze Khan
    An integrated empirical paradigm tracing immune strategies, underlying mechanisms and infection outcomes across reservoir host-pathogen systems, their specific ecological contexts, life-history features, and coevolutionary dynamics can reveal the actual patterns and processes underlying spillover in the wild.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Endomembrane targeting of human OAS1 p46 augments antiviral activity

    Frank W Soveg, Johannes Schwerk ... Ram Savan
    Prenylation of human oligoadenylate synthetase 1 isoform p46 mediates endomembrane targeting and increases its antiviral activity against positive-strand RNA viruses that utilize the host endomembrane system for replication.