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    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
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
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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.
    Version of Record
    Short Report
    • Valuable
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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
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Regulative synthesis of capsular polysaccharides in the pathogenesis of Streptococcus suis

    Xingye Wang, Jie Wang ... Beinan Wang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
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    • Incomplete
    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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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A statistical framework for quantifying the nuclear export rate of influenza viral mRNAs

    Michi Miura, Naho Kiuchi ... Mineki Saito
    A model is proposed to estimate the nuclear export rate of mRNAs produced in a transcription burst, using the spatial distribution of mRNAs determined by single-molecule RNA imaging.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Aeromonas hydrophila CobQ is a new type of NAD+- and Zn2+-independent protein lysine deacetylase

    Yuqian Wang, Guibin Wang ... Xiangmin Lin
    AhCobQ, a novel bacterial lysine deacetylase, functions independently of NAD+ and Zn2+, revealing a previously unknown domain and broad implications for metabolic regulation in prokaryotic systems.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    DNA methylome regulates virulence and metabolism in Pseudomonas syringae

    Jiadai Huang, Fang Chen ... Xin Deng
    Methylation profiling and functional analyses reveal critical roles of DNA methylation in regulating virulence and metabolism of P. syringae.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Improved base editing and functional screening in Leishmania via co-expression of the AsCas12a ultra variant, a T7 RNA polymerase, and a cytosine base editor

    Nicole Herrmann May, Anh Cao ... Tom Beneke
    An optimized cytosine base editing system for Leishmania species improves editing efficiency, reduces toxicity, and ensures stable guide expression, enabling scalable loss-of-function screening and efficient creation of functional mutants.