Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    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.
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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
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    • Useful
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
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    Expression of specific var gene subtypes is differentially associated with severe malaria syndromes

    Henry Ndugwa, Michelle Muthui ... Abdirahman I Abdi
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
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    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.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Peptidoglycan recycling is critical for cell division, cell wall integrity and β-lactam resistance in Caulobacter crescentus

    Pia Richter, Anna Merz ... Martin Thanbichler
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Reprogramming of host energy metabolism mediated by the TNF-iNOS-HIF-1α axis plays a key role in host resistance to Plasmodium infection

    Kely C Matteucci, Nathalia PS Leite ... Ricardo T Gazzinelli
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