Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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

   Structured illumination microscopy combined with machine learning for the high throughput analysis of virus structure

   Romain F Laine et al.
2. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Rotavirus VP3 targets MAVS for degradation to inhibit type III interferon expression in intestinal epithelial cells

   Siyuan Ding et al.

   Rotavirus infection induces phosphorylation and proteasomal degradation of MAVS to suppress host antiviral interferon signaling.
3. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Mycobacterium tuberculosis induces decelerated bioenergetic metabolism in human macrophages

   Bridgette M Cumming et al.

   Quantifiable bioenergetic parameters, determined from extracellular flux analyses, are distinct between macrophages infected with Mycobacteriumtuberculosis or vaccine strain M. bovis BCG, enabling assessment of future vaccine and drug efficacy.
4. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Protein gradients on the nucleoid position the carbon-fixing organelles of cyanobacteria

   Joshua S MacCready et al.
5. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   A virus-packageable CRISPR screen identifies host factors mediating interferon inhibition of HIV

   Molly OhAinle et al.

   Host restriction factors that block cross-species transmission also play a role in limiting the replication of highly-adapted HIV-1 in IFN-stimulated cells.
6. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Fragile X mental retardation protein is a Zika virus restriction factor that is antagonized by subgenomic flaviviral RNA

   Ruben Soto-Acosta et al.

   The Zika virus subgenomic flaviviral RNA binds to and inhibits the fragile X mental retardation protein, a novel Zika virus restriction factor.
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Host genetic selection for cold tolerance shapes microbiome composition and modulates its response to temperature

   Fotini Kokou et al.

   Microbiome and transcriptomic profiling of genetically selected tropical fish with high and low tolerance to cold exposure revealed host control over microbiome composition and response to temperature changes.
8. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   ATRX promotes maintenance of herpes simplex virus heterochromatin during chromatin stress

   Joseph M Cabral et al.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   High-resolution mapping of fluoroquinolones in TB rabbit lesions reveals specific distribution in immune cell types

   Landry Blanc et al.

   Penetration of the fluoroquinolones in tuberculosis lesions is heterogeneous even in fully cellular areas, is driven by macrophage content and decreases as the distance from lesion outer rim increases.
10. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Plant Biology

    A Phytophthora effector recruits a host cytoplasmic transacetylase into nuclear speckles to enhance plant susceptibility

    Haiyang Li et al.

    PsAvh52 modulates epigenetic modification to enhance the susceptibility of soybean to Phytophthora sojae infection.