Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Diet-conditioned microbiota enhances fecal microbiota transplantation efficacy in alcoholic liver disease through caproic acid-PPARα signaling

    Nishu Choudhary, Ashi Mittal ... Shvetank Sharma
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Redirection of SARS-CoV-2 to phagocytes by intranasal sACE2-Fc as a universal decoy confers complete prophylactic protection

    Jingyi Wang, Jiangchuan Li ... Bo Feng
    Functional and mechanistic analyses reveal that intranasal decoys engage phagocytic clearance beyond viral neutralization to provide effective protection, establishing immune redirection for developing broad-spectrum countermeasures against airborne viral threats.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    RNA Selectively Modulates Activity of Virulent Amyloid PSMα3 and Host Defense LL-37 via Phase Separation and Aggregation Dynamics

    Bader Rayan, Eilon Barnea ... Meytal Landau
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    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Five-layer systems analysis of Leishmania stage differentiation reveals an essential role for protein degradation in parasite development

    Pascale Pescher, Thibaut Douché ... Gerald F Späth
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The role of MICOS in organizing mitochondrial cristae in malaria parasites

    Silvia Tassan-Lugrezin, Irina Bregy ... Laura van Niftrik
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Physiological febrile heat stress increases cytoadhesion through increased protein trafficking of Plasmodium falciparum surface proteins into the red blood cell

    David Jones, Hugo Belda ... Moritz Treeck
    Fever, often seen as protective, accelerates protein export to surfaces of malaria-infected RBCs, increasing adhesion linked to disease severity.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Identifying a novel mechanism of L-leucine uptake in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a chemical genomic approach

    Nisheeth Agarwal, Himanshu Gogoi ... Bappaditya Dey
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Environmental temperature is a strong driver of subspecies competition in the Drosophila microbiome

    Bosco Gracia-Alvira, Stefanie Migotti ... Christian Schlötterer
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    LFA-1 Interaction with GBP-130 on Plasmodium falciparum-infected Red Blood Cells mediates NK Cell Activation and Parasite Control

    Osama Mukhtar, Ravi Dutt ... Pawan Malhotra
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Host and antibiotic jointly select for greater virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

    Michelle Su, Kim L Hoang ... Timothy D Read
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Highlights

    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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

    Zhao Wang, Yang Fu
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    3. Medicine

    Focus Issue: Trained Immunity

    Edited by Satyajit Rath et al.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Tuberculosis: A surprising new hiding place for a dangerous pathogen

    Sheetal Gandotra, Yogendra Singh

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