Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Structural basis for collagen recognition by the Streptococcus pyogenes M3 protein and its involvement in biofilm

   Marta Wojnowska, Takeaki Wajima ... Ulrich Schwarz-Linek
7. 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.
8. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Phospholipid Scramblase 1 (PLSCR1) Regulates Interferon-Lambda Receptor 1 (IFN-λR1) and IFN-λ Signaling in Influenza A Virus (IAV) Infection

   Alina X Yang, Lisa Ramos-Rodriguez ... Yang Zhou
9. 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
10. 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.