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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    On the role of VP3-PI3P interaction in birnavirus endosomal membrane targeting

    Flavia A Zanetti, Ignacio Fernandez ... Laura Ruth Delgui
    Molecular, biophysical, and computational analysis reveals insights on the mechanism of association of birnavirus VP3 with endosomes and its role in the viral life cycle, representing a substantial contribution toward understanding the replication strategy of these 'non-canonical' viruses.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Cellular Energy Production: Mycofactocin and the mycobacterial electron transport chain

    Stephanie M Stuteley, Ghader Bashiri
    In the bacterium M. smegmatis, an enzyme called MftG allows the cofactor mycofactocin to transfer electrons released during ethanol metabolism to the electron transport chain.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Avian-specific Salmonella transition to endemicity is accompanied by localized resistome and mobilome interaction

    Chenghao Jia, Chenghu Huang ... Min Yue
    Newly produced genomic data, as well as available datasets, reveal the pathogen's global transmission history along with the live poultry trade and pinpoint mobile element-driven local Salmonella adaptation.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    SIV-specific neutralizing antibody induction following selection of a PI3K drive-attenuated nef variant

    Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Tetsuro Matano
    Attenuation of viral Nef-driven PI3 kinase signaling in B cells precedes the induction of neutralizing antibody responses against a difficult-to-neutralize simian immunodeficiency virus.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Deletion of the moeA gene in Flavobacterium IR1 drives structural color shift from green to blue and alters polysaccharide metabolism

    Álvaro Escobar Doncel, Constantinos Patinios ... Colin J Ingham
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Secondary structure of the SARS-CoV-2 genome is predictive of nucleotide substitution frequency

    Zach Hensel
    SARS-CoV-2 secondary structure shapes mutation frequencies, constraining viral evolution models predicting fitness can benefit from integrating secondary structure data.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Regulative synthesis of capsular polysaccharides in the pathogenesis of Streptococcus suis

    Xingye Wang, Jie Wang ... Beinan Wang
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Oxidative stress drives potent bactericidal activity of pyrazinamide against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Nicholas A Dillon, Elise A Lamont ... Anthony D Baughn
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