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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Dissecting organoid-bacteria interaction highlights decreased contractile force as a key factor for heart infection

    Anheng Wang, Jiaxian Wang ... Chunming Wang
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Applying 3D correlative structured illumination microscopy and X-ray tomography to characterise herpes simplex virus-1 morphogenesis

    Kamal L Nahas, Viv Connor ... Colin M Crump
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    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
    Infection of human cells by human cytomegalovirus induces massive changes to human chromatin and reduction of TEAD1 activity.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The second messenger signaling molecule cyclic di-AMP drives developmental cycle progression in Chlamydia trachomatis

    Junghoon Lee, Scot P Ouellette
    For the first time, a function for the second messenger molecule, cyclic di-AMP, in Chlamydia has been described, revealing its role in regulating chlamydial developmental cycle progression.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Host and antibiotic jointly select for greater virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

    Michelle Su, Kim L Hoang ... Timothy D Read
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Quantitative RNA pseudouridine landscape reveals dynamic modification patterns and evolutionary conservation across bacterial species

    Letong Xu, Shenghai Shen ... Xin Deng
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure-guided loop grafting improves expression and stability of influenza neuraminidase for vaccine development

    Pramila Rijal, Leiyan Wei ... Alain RM Townsend
    Grafting surface loops containing antibody epitopes of a poorly expressed flu neuraminidase protein onto a high-expressing, stable scaffold improves its production and stability for vaccine development.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    PPARγ mediated enhanced lipid biogenesis fuels Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth in a drug-tolerant hepatocyte environment

    Binayak Sarkar, Jyotsna ... Rajesh S Gokhale
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pangenome is small and shaped by sub-lineage-specific regions of difference

    Mahboobeh Behruznia, Maximillian Marin ... Conor J Meehan
    The accessory genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is small, but differences in gene content are found both between and within lineages.