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Comprehensive characterization of kinase-dependent phosphorylation in the human pathogen Toxoplasma gondii identifies a trafficking adaptor complex required for virulence factor secretion and infection.

Structural analysis of the HipBST toxin–antitoxin system from E. coli shows how a toxin kinase has been split into two proteins and encodes its own inhibitor.

Enterovirus D68, a pathogen associated with a rare child paralysis disease, depends on the cellular protein SIRT-1 for release of virus, indicating that SIRT-1 may be an important therapeutic target.

σ²⁸-Dependent sRNAs fine-tune flagella synthesis, with one sRNA connecting synthesis with metabolism and two sRNAs with opposing effects connecting synthesis with ribosomal protein production through unique binding within coding sequences.

Results from this modelled analysis indicate that short-term delays in HPV vaccination of adolescents are unlikely to have substantial long-term effects on HPV-related cancers, provided catch-up of missed vaccine doses can be implemented.

The most effective growth-neutralising antibodies which target the PfRH5 protein from a malaria parasite function by preventing the parasite from binding to basigin-containing membrane protein complexes on human erythrocytes.

Individual species of bacteria and yeast present in the food of wild fruit flies work together to provide the nutrients needed for larval growth.

A new mass spectrometry-based method to identify and quantify changes in a subcellular local protein environment shows the impact of deletion of a kinase the human malaria parasites export into the host cell.

Carbon-fixing organelles, called carboxysomes, link to their spatial organization system in the bacterial cell by a hexameric protein that forms pH-dependent condensates via a nuanced multidomain mechanism.