Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An abundant merozoite surface protein of Plasmodium falciparum modulates susceptibility to inhibitory antibodies

    Isabelle G Henshall, Jill Chmielewski ... Danny W Wilson
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A Novel Rapid Host Cell Entry Pathway Determines Intracellular Fate of Staphylococcus aureus

    Marcel Rühling, Fabio Schmelz ... Martin J Fraunholz
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Function and firing of the Streptomyces coelicolor contractile injection system requires the membrane protein CisA

    Bastien Casu, Joseph W Sallmen ... Susan Schlimpert
    CryoEM, genetic, and cell biological analyses reveal that the conserved membrane protein CisA mediates membrane recruitment of contractile injection systems Streptomyces coelicolor, enabling their activation under stress.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Benchmarking and Optimization of Methods for the Detection of Identity-By-Descent in High-Recombining Plasmodium falciparum Genomes

    Bing Guo, Shannon Takala-Harrison, Timothy D O’Connor
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Cancer Biology

    The lnc-FANCI-2 intrinsically restricts RAS signaling in HPV16-infected cervical cancer

    Haibin Liu, Lulu Yu ... Zhi-Ming Zheng
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Heat stress induces phage tolerance in Enterobacteriaceae

    Fan Zhang, Hao-Ze Chen ... Jia-Feng Liu
    Bacterial persistence against phages enables survival under infection, and heat treatment enhances this tolerance, facilitating resistance evolution and influencing the effectiveness of phage therapy.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The impact of different antimicrobial exposures on the gut microbiome in the ARMORD observational study

    Leon Peto, Nicola Fawcett ... A Sarah Walker
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The human cytomegalovirus-encoded pUS28 antagonizes CD4+ T cell recognition by targeting CIITA

    Fabienne Maassen, Vu Thuy Khanh Le-Trilling ... Mirko Trilling
    Through the destabilization of CIITA, the human cytomegalovirus-encoded protein pUS28 antagonizes the expression of the HLA-II molecules CD74/Ii, HLA-DR, HLA-DQ, HLA-DM, and HLA-DP, diminishing the activation of HCMV-specific CD4+ T cells and reducing their secretion of antiviral cytokines.
    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
    Sub-populations of non growing bacteria survive treatment with antimicrobial peptides by mounting an efflux response.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pangenome is small and shaped by sub-lineage-specific regions of difference

    Mahboobeh Behruznia, Maximillian Marin ... Conor J Meehan
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
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