Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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1. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   ODELAM, rapid sequence-independent detection of drug resistance in isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

   Thurston Herricks et al.

   Time-lapse live cell imaging of single Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli growing into small colonies enables their rapid phenotypic characterization including anti-microbial resistance and heteroresistance in clinical isolates.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Retrocopying expands the functional repertoire of APOBEC3 antiviral proteins in primates

   Lei Yang et al.

   Genomes take advantage of the gene-duplicating ability of retroelements to birth novel innate immune defense genes.
3. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   A new protocol for single-cell RNA-seq reveals stochastic gene expression during lag phase in budding yeast

   Abbas Jariani et al.

   A new high-throughput method for single-cell RNA-seq in yeast cells shows how stochastic expression of glucose-repressed genes contributes to cell-to-cell differences during adaptation to an environmental change.
4. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   PrkA controls peptidoglycan biosynthesis through the essential phosphorylation of ReoM

   Sabrina Wamp et al.
5. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   SKAP2 is required for defense against K. pneumoniae infection and neutrophil respiratory burst

   Giang T Nguyen et al.

   SKAP2 is critical for hematopoietic cell protection against Klebsiella infection in mouse lungs, for full phosphorylation of Src Family Kinases, Syk, and Pyk2, and for Klebsiella-induced reactive oxygen species production.
6. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   HIV in Women: How HIV exploits T cells in the endometrium

   Marta Rodriguez-Garcia

   Immune cells in the endometrium are targeted by HIV and re-programmed to allow them to survive and spread the virus throughout the body.
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Type I interferon underlies severe disease associated with Junín virus infection in mice

   Brady T Hickerson et al.
8. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   HIV efficiently infects T cells from the endometrium and remodels them to promote systemic viral spread

   Tongcui Ma et al.

   CD4+ T cells from the female reproductive tract are unusually susceptible to HIV infection and are altered by HIV in ways that promote survival and systemic spread of the virus.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   Oomycete small RNAs bind to the plant RNA-induced silencing complex for virulence

   Florian Dunker et al.
10. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A helminth-derived suppressor of ST2 blocks allergic responses

    Francesco Vacca et al.

    HpBARI is a protein secreted by a parasitic helminth, which binds to and blocks the IL-33 receptor, suppressing IL-33-dependent type 2 immune responses.