Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Research advance: Unexpected plasticity in the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei

    Carina Praisler, Jaime N Lisack ... Markus Engstler
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Quantitative RNA pseudouridine landscape reveals dynamic modification patterns and evolutionary conservation across bacterial species

    Letong Xu, Shenghai Shen ... Xin Deng
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The spike tip protein of bacteriophage T4

    Yves Mattenberger, Ekaterina S Knyazhanskaya ... Dominique Belin
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Human genetic ancestry, Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity, and tuberculosis disease severity in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Michaela Zwyer, Zhi Ming Xu ... Daniela Brites
    The severity of active tuberculosis in a high-burden population is not explained by host or pathogen genetic variation, suggesting a dominant role for social and environmental factors.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    4-Aminoquinolines block heme iron reactivity and interfere with artemisinin action

    Melissa Rosenthal, Daniel E Goldberg
    Chloroquine interferes with artemisinin activation, and such interactions should be considered when formulating antimalarial drug combinations.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Gut Microbiome: Bacteria weigh up costs and benefits of mobile weapons

    Zhao Wang, Yang Fu
    Gaining the ability to kill rival microbes is not always an advantage for bacteria in complex gut microbiomes.
    Version of Record
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bivalent mRNA booster encoding virus-like particles elicits potent polyclass receptor-binding domain antibodies in pre-vaccinated mice

    Chengcheng Fan, Alexander A Cohen ... Magnus AG Hoffmann
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The targeted cytosolic degradation of class I histone deacetylases is essential for efficient alphaherpesvirus replication

    Sheng-Li Ming, Meng-Hua Du ... Bei-Bei Chu
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Incomplete
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Expression of specific var gene subtypes is differentially associated with severe malaria syndromes

    Henry Ndugwa, Michelle Muthui ... Abdirahman I Abdi
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterial metallophosphatase MmpE acts as a nucleomodulin to regulate host gene expression and promote intracellular survival

    Liu Chen, Baojie Duan ... Aizhen Guo
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilizes nucleomodulins to disrupt host inflammatory responses and lysosomal maturation, uncovering a novel strategy for immune evasion and intracellular survival.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Trade-offs in the gut microbiome

    Zhao Wang, Yang Fu
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    2. Medicine
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    Edited by Diane M Harper et al.

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    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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