Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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1. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Tuberculosis-associated IFN-I induces Siglec-1 on tunneling nanotubes and favors HIV-1 spread in macrophages

   Maeva Dupont et al.
2. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Bacterial Immunity: An adaptable defense

   Michael A Schelling, Dipali G Sashital

   The response of bacteria to the threat posed by phages depends on their local environment.
3. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Co-evolution within structured bacterial communities results in multiple expansion of CRISPR loci and enhanced immunity

   Nora C Pyenson, Luciano A Marraffini

   Cells must acquire multiple viral spacer sequences to neutralize mutant escaper phages and form colonies during the CRISPR-Cas immune response.
4. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Mycobacterium tuberculosis exploits host ATM kinase for survival advantage through SecA2 secretome

   Savita Lochab et al.
5. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   An atypical DYRK kinase connects quorum-sensing with posttranscriptional gene regulation in Trypanosoma brucei

   Mathieu Cayla et al.
6. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Global genome diversity of the Leishmania donovani complex

   Susanne U Franssen et al.

   Genomic data for the parasites that cause visceral leishmaniasis provides the first global picture of the diversity and evolution of the pathogen and the epidemiology of this fatal tropical disease.
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Delayed antibiotic exposure induces population collapse in enterococcal communities with drug-resistant subpopulations

   Kelsey M Hallinen et al.
8. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Plant Biology

   CCR4, a RNA decay factor, is hijacked by a plant cytorhabdovirus phosphoprotein to facilitate virus replication

   Zhen-Jia Zhang et al.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   The transpeptidase PBP2 governs initial localization and activity of the major cell-wall synthesis machinery in E. coli

   Gizem Özbaykal et al.

   For initiation of cell-wall insertion, the cross-linking enzyme PBP2 stably binds to a component of the cell envelope that is different from MreB filaments.
10. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Defective lytic transglycosylase disrupts cell morphogenesis by hindering cell wall de-O-acetylation in Neisseria meningitidis

    Allison Hillary Williams et al.

    Lytic transglycosylase enhances the activity of its protein partner, and its catalytic domain can be targeted to disrupt cell-wall integrity, protein partner function, and bacterial survival (Neisseria meningitidis) in hosts.