Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Interleukin-1 prevents SARS-CoV-2-induced membrane fusion to restrict viral transmission via induction of actin bundles

    Xu Zheng, Shi Yu ... Guangxun Meng
    Interleukin-1 activates RhoA/ROCK signaling, which drives the enrichment of actin bundles at the cell-cell junctions, preventing SARS-CoV-2 spreading via syncytia formation.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Improved base editing and functional screening in Leishmania via co-expression of the AsCas12a ultra variant, a T7 RNA Polymerase, and a cytosine base editor

    Nicole Herrmann May, Ngoc Anh Cao ... Tom Beneke
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Immunogenicity and safety of a live-attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate based on multiple attenuation mechanisms

    Mie Suzuki Okutani, Shinya Okamura ... Hirotaka Ebina
    The novel live-attenuated SARS-CoV-2 nasal vaccine candidate is highly safe, induces robust cellular and mucosal immunity, and generates long-lasting neutralizing antibody titers.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    FtsK is Critical for the Assembly of the Unique Divisome Complex of the FtsZ-less Chlamydia trachomatis

    McKenna Harpring, Junghoon Lee ... John V Cox
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HIV-1 Vif disrupts phosphatase feedback regulation at the kinetochore, leading to a pronounced pseudo-metaphase arrest

    Dhaval Ghone, Edward L Evans ... Aussie Suzuki
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Neuroscience

    Enteric glia regulate Paneth cell secretion and intestinal microbial ecology

    Aleksandra Prochera, Anoohya N Muppirala ... Meenakshi Rao
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mapping HIV-1 RNA Structure, Homodimers, Long-Range Interactions and persistent domains by HiCapR

    Yan Zhang, Jingwan Han ... Zhihu Zhao
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Frequent intertrophic transmission of Wolbachia by parasitism but not predation

    Zhi-Chao Yan, Lan-Da Qi ... Yuan-Xi Li
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Soluble immune mediators orchestrate protective in vitro granulomatous responses across Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineages

    Ainhoa Arbués, Sarah Schmidiger ... Damien Portevin
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Multi-omics investigation of spontaneous T2DM macaque reveals gut microbiota promote T2DM by up-regulating the absorption of excess palmitic acid

    Xu Liu, Shengzhi Yang ... Jing Li
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
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    Malaria: explore our collection of articles

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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
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    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    COVID-19: A collection of articles

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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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