Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Viruses: How herpes is assembled

    Dawid S Zyla
    A combination of imaging techniques reveals how herpes simplex virus type 1 assembles within infected cells, highlighting the roles of essential viral proteins in viral assembly and exit.
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Distinct adaptation and epidemiological success of different genotypes within Salmonella enterica serovar Dublin

    Cheryll M Sia, Rebecca L Ambrose ... Danielle J Ingle
    Revised
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    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Impaired fatty acid import or catabolism in macrophages restricts intracellular growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Nelson V Simwela, Eleni Jaecklein ... David G Russell
    Prevention of either lipid uptake or lipid catabolism in infected macrophages restricts the ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to grow inside these cells.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Exploring the repository of de novo-designed bifunctional antimicrobial peptides through deep learning

    Ruihan Dong, Rongrong Liu ... Cheng Zhu
    Peptides designed by artificial intelligence restrict both drug-resistant bacteria and rapidly evolving viruses.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HIV-1 Vif disrupts phosphatase feedback regulation at the kinetochore, leading to a pronounced pseudo-metaphase arrest

    Dhaval Ghone, Edward L Evans ... Aussie Suzuki
    HIV-1 Vif induces a unique and prolonged pseudo-metaphase arrest by disrupting phosphatase feedback regulation at the kinetochore.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Proteostasis modulates gene dosage evolution in antibiotic-resistant bacteria

    Chinmaya Jena, Saillesh Chinnaraj ... Nishad Matange
    Gene duplication in antibiotic-resistant bacteria mitigates elevated demand for expression, facilitating adaptation to antibiotics and alleviating costs of proteolytic instability of the drug target.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Effects of parental care on skin microbial community composition in poison frogs

    Marie-Therese Fischer, Katherine S Xue ... Lauren A O’Connell
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Amidase and lysozyme dual functions in TseP reveal a new family of chimeric effectors in the type VI secretion system

    Zeng-Hang Wang, Ying An ... Tao Dong
    Structural and functional analyses identify a new family of bifunctional cell-wall-targeting type VI secretion system (T6SS) effectors and a surface-charge-engineering strategy that expands T6SS activity against Gram-positive cells.

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