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Distinct members of the Caenorhabditis elegans microbiota can have widely divergent effects on Orsay virus transmission, such that associated bacteria can effectively determine host susceptibility versus resistance to viral infection.

Exploration of the target of rapamycin pathway in Aspergillus flavus reveals critical regulatory elements influencing aflatoxin synthesis and stress tolerance, offering potential targets for antifungal strategies.

M1 alanyl aminopeptidase is chemically validated as an attractive antimalarial target by confirming the on-target activity of a novel selective inhibitor using chemoproteomics and metabolomics-based drug target deconvolution approaches.

A new study reveals how naturally occurring mutations affect the biophysical properties of nucleocapsid proteins in SARS-CoV-2.

Exploration of the phenotype space corresponding to the sequence space of viable SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein species reveals significant diversity of biophysical characteristics, nonlocal mutation effects, and functional constraints.

RNA polymerase III plays a crucial role in controlling virulence in response to environmental changes and provides a new molecular perspective into the development of asymptomatic malaria.

This time-shortened work flow improves sensitivity and specificity for the identification of bacteria in bone infections independently of bacterial culturability.

Analysis of human cytomegalovirus-encoded glycoprotein US10 targeting human leucocyte antigen class I molecules reveals a multimodal strategy, resulting in a geno- and allotypic-dependent effects.

The pseudokinase Tribbles1 is expressed in human monocytes after mycobacterial challenge and can be manipulated to be host protective against mycobacterial infection, due to control of innate immune cell function, in a zebrafish tuberculosis model.