Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A biofilm-tropic Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage uses the exopolysaccharide Psl as receptor

    Brenna Walton, Serena Abbondante ... Arne Rietsch
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pangenome is small and shaped by sub-lineage-specific regions of difference

    Mahboobeh Behruznia, Maximillian Marin ... Conor J Meehan
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus P118 enhances host tolerance to Salmonella infection by promoting microbe-derived indole metabolites

    Baikui Wang, Xianqi Peng ... Min Yue
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    RBMX2: A Pivotal Regulator Linking Mycobacterium bovis Infection to Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Lung Cancer Progression

    Chao Wang, Yongchong Peng ... Yingyu Chen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Multi-Omics Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Key Regulators of HIV-1 Persistence and Aberrant Host Immune Responses in Early Infection

    Dayeon Lee, Sin Young Choi ... Jihwan Park
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Malnutrition drives infection susceptibility and dysregulated myelopoiesis that persists after refeeding intervention

    Alisa Sukhina, Clemence Queriault ... Will Bailis
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    SIRT2 protects against Japanese encephalitis virus infection in mice

    Perumal Arumugam Desingu, Lavanya Dindi ... Nagalingam R Sundaresan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Doubling dolutegravir dosage reduces the viral reservoir in ART-treated people with HIV

    Céline Fombellida-Lopez, Aurelija Valaitienė ... Gilles Darcis
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Unraveling CRP/cAMP-mediated metabolic regulation in Escherichia coli persister cells

    Han G Ngo, Sayed Golam Mohiuddin ... Mehmet A Orman
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Myosin light chain 3 serves as a receptor for nervous necrosis virus entry into host cells via the macropinocytosis pathway

    Lan Yao, Wanwan Zhang ... Kuntong Jia
    MYL3 is identified as a novel receptor enabling nervous necrosis virus (NNV) entry via macropinocytosis, revealing a therapeutic target for combating NNV outbreaks in aquaculture.
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Highlights

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Receptors versus viruses

    Ping-Ping Liu, Zhe Wei, Xian-Wei Wang
    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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