Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
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    Ribosomal RNA methylation by GidB modulates discrimination of mischarged tRNA

    Zhuo Bi, Yu-Xiang Chen ... Babak Javid
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    FtsK Initiates the Assembly of a Unique Divisome Complex in the FtsZ-less Chlamydia trachomatis

    McKenna Harpring, Junghoon Lee ... John V Cox
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Evolutionary unique N-glycan-dependent protein quality control system plays pivotal roles in cellular fitness and extracellular vesicle transport in Cryptococcus neoformans

    Catia Mota, Kiseung Kim ... Hyun Ah Kang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    ATP burst is the dominant driver of antibiotic lethality in Mycobacteria

    Tejan Lodhiya, Aseem Palande ... Raju Mukherjee
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fast Evolution of SOS-Independent Multi-Drug Resistance in Bacteria

    Le Zhang, Yunpeng Guan ... Dayong Jin
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A Novel Rapid Host Cell Entry Pathway Determines Intracellular Fate of Staphylococcus aureus

    Marcel Rühling, Fabio Schmelz ... Martin J Fraunholz
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Cancer Biology

    The long noncoding RNA lnc-FANCI-2 intrinsically restricts RAS signaling and phosphorylation of Akt and Erk in HPV16-infected cervical cancer

    Haibin Liu, Lulu Yu ... Zhi-Ming Zheng
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Household clustering and seasonal genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum at the community-level in The Gambia

    Marc-Antoine Guery, Sukai Ceesay ... Antoine Claessens
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Telomerase RNA component knockout exacerbates Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia by extensive inflammation and dysfunction of T cells

    Yasmina Reisser, Franziska Hornung ... Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer
    Knockout of Terc impedes effective immune defense against bacterial lung infections in mice, exacerbating disease course and revealing the critical function of Terc in pulmonary immunity.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Human cytomegalovirus infection coopts chromatin organization to diminish TEAD1 transcription factor activity

    Khund Sayeed, Sreeja Parameswaran ... Matthew T Weirauch
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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  1. Wendy S Garrett
    Wendy S Garrett
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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    University of Michigan, United States
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    University of Helsinki, Finland
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