Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Heterogeneous efflux pump expression underpins phenotypic resistance to antimicrobial peptides

    Ka Kiu Lee, Urszula Łapińska ... Stefano Pagliara
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Wag31, a membrane tether, is crucial for lipid homeostasis in mycobacteria

    Yogita Kapoor, Himani Khurana ... Vinay Kumar Nandicoori
    A novel function of Wag31 in membrane tethering and molecular dissection of the functions of its N- and C-terminal domains.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Chemostat culturing reduces fecal eukaryotic virus load and delays diarrhea after virome transplantation

    Simone Margaard Offersen, Signe Adamberg ... Anders Brunse
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Single-cell profiling of the lung immune cells of diabetes-tuberculosis comorbidity reveals reduced type-II interferon and elevated Th17 responses

    Shweta Chaudhary, Mothe Sravya ... Ranjan Kumar Nanda
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Identifying Genetic Variations in emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes Associated with Severe Invasive Infections

    Masayuki Ono, Masaya Yamaguchi ... Shigetada Kawabata
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor influences periarticular joint inflammation in Borrelia burgdorferi-infected mice

    Qian Yu, Xiaotian Tang ... Erol Fikrig
    Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor suppresses Borrelia burgdorferi infection-induced periarticular inflammation in mice by maintaining anti-protease–protease balance.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A novel SUN1-ALLAN complex coordinates segregation of the bipartite MTOC across the nuclear envelope during rapid closed mitosis in Plasmodium berghei

    Mohammad Zeeshan, Igor Blatov ... Rita Tewari
    The SUN1-ALLAN complex serves as a nuclear envelope–spanning tether that coordinates the segregation of a bipartite microtubule organising center (MTOC) during the unusual mitosis of Plasmodium.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Stumpy forms are the predominant transmissible forms of Trypanosoma brucei

    Jean Marc Tsagmo Ngoune, Parul Sharma ... Brice Rotureau
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Salmonella exploits host- and bacterial-derived β-alanine for replication inside host macrophages

    Shuai Ma, Bin Yang ... Lingyan Jiang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The penetration ring is a novel infection structure formed by the penetration peg for invading plant cell membrane in rice blast fungus

    Wenqin Fang, Xiaoyu Zai ... Wenhui Zheng
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
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    Wendy S Garrett
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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    University of Michigan, United States
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    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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