Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Activation of the Spx redox sensor counters cysteine-driven Fe(II) depletion under disulfide stress

    Abigail G Hall, Abdulelah A Alqarzaee ... Vinai C Thomas
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Doubling dolutegravir dosage reduces the viral reservoir in ART-treated people with HIV

    Céline Fombellida-Lopez, Aurelija Valaitienė ... Gilles Darcis
    In a randomized trial, ART intensification by doubling the dolutegravir dosage in people with HIV stably suppressed on dolutegravir-based ART reduced levels of four HIV reservoir markers in peripheral blood.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HIV-specific CD8+ T-cell proliferative response 24 weeks after early antiretroviral therapy initiation is associated with the subsequent reduction in the viral reservoir

    Pien Margien van Paassen, Alexander O Pasternak ... Godelieve J de Bree
    In individuals who started antiretroviral therapy during acute HIV infection, the proliferative capacity of HIV-specific CD8+ T-cells at 24 weeks of therapy predicted the subsequent reduction in the viral reservoir.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    ZFT is the major iron and zinc transporter in Toxoplasma gondii

    Dana Aghabi, Cecilia Gallego Rubio ... Clare R Harding
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Glycolysis-dependent Sulfur Metabolism Orchestrates Morphological Plasticity and Virulence in Fungi

    Dhrumi Shah, Nikita Rewatkar ... Sriram Varahan
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Stratification of viral shedding patterns in saliva of COVID-19 patients

    Hyeongki Park, Yoshimura Raiki ... Taiga Miyazaki
    Distinct patterns of SARS-CoV-2 viral dynamics in saliva reveal heterogeneity that cannot be sufficiently explained by conventional clinical characteristics or microRNA profiles alone.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A novel high-throughput single-cell DNA sequencing method reveals hidden genomic heterogeneity in the unicellular eukaryote Leishmania

    Gabriel H Negreira, Pieter Monsieurs ... Malgorzata A Domagalska
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fish CDK2 recruits Dtx4 to degrade TBK1 through ubiquitination in the antiviral response

    Long-Feng Lu, Can Zhang ... Shun Li
    CDK2-mediated TBK1 degradation via Dtx4 represents a previously unrecognized regulatory mechanism that modulates antiviral immunity in fish.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    ATP burst is the dominant driver of antibiotic lethality in Mycobacterium smegmatis

    Tejan Lodhiya, Aseem Palande ... Raju Mukherjee
    Multiomics and biochemical studies reveal that excess ATP levels, and not ROS, is the dominant driver for antibiotic cidality in Mycobacterium smegmatis.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Pathogen-Phage Geomapping to Overcome Resistance

    Camilla Do, Keiko C Salazar ... Anthony W Maresso
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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