Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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1. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Subtle selectivity in a pheromone sensor triumvirate desynchronizes competence and predation in a human gut commensal

   Johann Mignolet et al.

   A new cell–cell communication system in Streptococcus salivarius, a human gut commensal, discriminates between close signaling molecules to specifically produce bacteriocin-based antimicrobials and disconnects it from foreign DNA acquisition.
2. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   USP49 potently stabilizes APOBEC3G protein by removing ubiquitin and inhibits HIV-1 replication

   Ting Pan et al.

   USP49 can increase A3G protein expression and enhance its anti-HIV-1 activity, which is also correlated with hypermutations and affects the HIV-1 latent reservoir.
3. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Mucosal infection rewires TNFɑ signaling dynamics to skew susceptibility to recurrence

   Lu Yu et al.

   Polarizing susceptibilities to recurrent bladder infection are shaped by a duality in TNFɑ-mediated inflammation dynamics upon challenge infection that is dictated by the outcome of the initial infection.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   A new family of cell surface located purine transporters in Microsporidia and related fungal endoparasites

   Peter Major et al.

   Transporters shared by fungal intracellular parasites provide new insights into the evolution of nucleotide and energy parasitism.
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Apicomplexan-like parasites are polyphyletic and widely but selectively dependent on cryptic plastid organelles

   Jan Janouškovec et al.
6. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Complement and CD4⁺ T cells drive context-specific corneal sensory neuropathy

   Derek J Royer et al.
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Nanoscale organization of rotavirus replication machineries

   Yasel Garcés Suárez et al.

   Super-resolution microscopy reveals, at nanometric-scale, the highly organized protein structure of viroplasms, the viral factories used by rotavirus to replicate its genome and assemble new viral particles.
8. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Noroviruses subvert the core stress granule component G3BP1 to promote viral VPg-dependent translation

   Myra Hosmillo et al.
9. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Formin-2 drives polymerisation of actin filaments enabling segregation of apicoplasts and cytokinesis in Plasmodium falciparum

   Johannes Felix Stortz et al.

   Formin-2 controls spatiotemporal polymerisation of actin filaments, a common mechanism used by apicomplexans for effective segregation of essential chloroplast-like organelles called apicoplasts, and additionally for daughter formation in Plasmodium falciparum.
10. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An elusive electron shuttle from a facultative anaerobe

    Emily Mevers et al.

    The identification of ACNQ as an extracellular electron shuttle solves a longstanding problem in bacterial physiology and provides new tool for bioenergy development.