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Understanding how to harden liquid condensates produced by influenza A virus could accelerate the development of novel antiviral drugs.

Resistance genes that spread as a result of the use of an antimicrobial peptide (colistin) in agriculture (MCR) protect bacteria against key components of human and animal immune systems.

The glideosome-associated connector protein transitions between open and closed states, and this regulates its assembly and function during apicomplexan parasite motility.

An Escherichia coli line lacking deoxyribonucleotide synthesis has been created and subjected to experimental evolution, revealing that endosymbionts and pathogens that lack ribonucleotide reduction avoid loss of deoxyribonucleotides to central metabolism by disruption of the salvage pathway.

Microbial cells optimally structure their proteomes in order to mutually maximize metabolism and translation, as established by an extensive comparison between data and a low-dimensional model of cellular physiology.

Genes for adhesion, interbacterial competition, and secondary metabolite production are important colonization factors of the honey bee gut symbiont Frischella perrara and are regulated by the conserved histone-like DNA-binding protein integration host factor.

The H3N2 canine influenza virus – which originally came from birds – is evolving to become more transmissible between dogs.

The emergence and evolution of different phage-resistance strategies during coevolution between a phage-sensitive strain and a polylysogenic competitor depend on the amount of phage pressure, the fitness costs of resistance, and how these may change at different time scales.

New HIV-1 protease inhibitor designs result in more potent inhibitors with high genetic barriers to resistance and the ability to lead virus evolution down less fit pathways when resistance occurs.

De novo-generated small proteins can cause deattenuation of an amino acid biosynthetic operon by direct protein–RNA interactions.