Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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

   Formin-2 drives polymerisation of actin filaments enabling segregation of apicoplasts and cytokinesis in Plasmodium falciparum

   Johannes Felix Stortz et al.
2. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Structural insights into flagellar stator-rotor interactions

   Yunjie Chang et al.
3. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   The microbiota protects from viral-induced neurologic damage through microglia-intrinsic TLR signaling

   D Garrett Brown et al.

   Immune stimulation from the microbiota prevents neurological damage associated with viral infection of the central nervous system.
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   The origins and relatedness structure of mixed infections vary with local prevalence of P. falciparum malaria

   Sha Joe Zhu et al.
5. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Structure of the Helicobacter pylori Cag type IV secretion system

   Jeong Min Chung et al.

   The Helicobacter pylori Cag T4SS has unique structural features, including unexpected symmetry mismatch between sub-complexes, with implications for protein secretion.
6. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Self-capping of nucleoprotein filaments protects Newcastle Disease Virus genome

   Xiyong Song et al.
7. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Heterogeneity in surface sensing suggests a division of labor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations

   Catherine R Armbruster et al.

   Subpopulations of polysaccharide producer and surface explorer cells play specialized roles in early Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation.
8. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   KHNYN is essential for the zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) to restrict HIV-1 containing clustered CpG dinucleotides

   Mattia Ficarelli et al.

   KHNYN, a putative endoribonuclease, interacts with the zinc-finger antiviral protein (ZAP) and is required for the inhibition of HIV replication and RNA abundance by CpG dinucleotides.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   A dedicated diribonucleotidase resolves a key bottleneck for the terminal step of RNA degradation

   Soo-Kyoung Kim et al.

   RNA degradation is completed through specific intermediates, such as diribonucleotides, which must be removed from the cells by a specific enzyme.
10. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The molecular architecture of engulfment during Bacillus subtilis sporulation

    Kanika Khanna et al.