Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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1. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Unexpected plasticity in the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei

   Sarah Schuster et al.

   Parasite life cycles may be more flexible than traditionally thought, potentially allowing single-cell infections of insect vectors and transmission between hosts even at very low parasite densities.
2. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Structural characterization of NrnC identifies unifying features of dinucleotidases

   Justin D Lormand et al.
3. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Monocyte-derived transcriptome signature indicates antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis as a potential mechanism of vaccine-induced protection against HIV-1

   Shida Shangguan et al.
4. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Parasite Transmission: A two-stage solution

   Fabien Guegan, Luisa Figueiredo

   The parasite that causes African sleeping sickness can be transmitted from mammals to tsetse flies in two stages of its lifecycle, rather than one as was previously thought.
5. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   A nascent polypeptide sequence modulates DnaA translation elongation in response to nutrient availability

   Michele Felletti et al.

   Specific amino acids in the N-terminus of the replication initiator protein DnaA inhibit translation elongation upon carbon starvation, illustrating that the identity of the N-terminal amino acids of a protein can modulate protein synthesis yield under changing conditions.
6. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   An essential, kinetoplastid-specific GDP-Fuc: β-D-Gal α-1,2-fucosyltransferase is located in the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei

   Giulia Bandini et al.

   The activity, localization, and essentiality of TbFUT1, together with its ability to complement Leishmania parasites lacking the homologous gene, suggest the presence of an uncommon and conserved mitochondrial fucosylation pathway required for kinetoplastid parasites viability.
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Cryo-EM reveals new species-specific proteins and symmetry elements in the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm T4SS

   Michael J Sheedlo et al.
8. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Multiple introductions of multidrug-resistant typhoid associated with acute infection and asymptomatic carriage, Kenya

   Samuel Kariuki et al.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   A Tad-like apparatus is required for contact-dependent prey killing in predatory social bacteria

   Sofiene Seef et al.
10. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Interferon receptor-deficient mice are susceptible to eschar-associated rickettsiosis

    Thomas P Burke et al.

    Type I interferon and interferon-γ signaling redundantly protects mice from the tick-borne pathogen Rickettsia parkeri in the skin, and interferon receptor-deficient mice are a tractable model for investigating rickettsiosis.