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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Ribonucleotide reductase, a novel drug target for gonorrhea

    Jana Narasimhan, Suzanne Letinski ... Arthur Branstrom
    Novel small molecule inhibitors act against Neisseria including multi-drug resistant isolates by uniquely targeting RNR thereby enabling single pathogen therapy whilst sparing the microbiome.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Breaking antimicrobial resistance by disrupting extracytoplasmic protein folding

    R Christopher D Furniss, Nikol Kaderabkova ... Despoina AI Mavridou
    Disruption of disulfide bond formation sensitizes resistant Gram-negative bacteria expressing β-lactamases and mobile colistin resistance enzymes to currently available antibiotics.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    m6A modifications regulate intestinal immunity and rotavirus infection

    Anmin Wang, Wanyiin Tao ... Shu Zhu
    RNA m6A level is dually regulated during RV infection and development, METTL3 deficiency in IECs results in increased resistance to rotaviral infection through reduced m6A modificaitons on Irf7.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Evolution of host-microbe cell adherence by receptor domain shuffling

    EmilyClare P Baker, Ryan Sayegh ... Matthew F Barber
    Rapid evolution and gene conversion of a primate cell surface receptor family blocks recognition by pathogenic bacteria.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Homeostatic interferon-lambda response to bacterial microbiota stimulates preemptive antiviral defense within discrete pockets of intestinal epithelium

    Jacob A Van Winkle, Stefan T Peterson ... Timothy J Nice
    The enteric bacterial microbiota stimulates a highly localized interferon-lambda signal within the intestinal epithelium that protects against murine rotavirus infection.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Vaccine-induced COVID-19 mimicry syndrome

    Eric Kowarz, Lea Krutzke ... Rolf Marschalek
    The Spike gene expressed by the vector-based vaccine Vaxzevria bears the risk of cryptic splicing, which in turn may lead to cellular production of soluble, instead of membrane-anchored, Spike protein variants.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Host-pathogen genetic interactions underlie tuberculosis susceptibility in genetically diverse mice

    Clare M Smith, Richard E Baker ... Christopher M Sassetti
    A novel dual genome approach that combines genetically diverse mice and a library of bacterial mutants to define the genome-wide host pathogen interactions that drive distinct outcomes to tuberculosis.
    1. Ecology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Alternate patterns of temperature variation bring about very different disease outcomes at different mean temperatures

    Charlotte Kunze, Pepijn Luijckx ... Ian Donohue
    Temperature variation caused by heatwaves and diurnal fluctuations has distinct effects on host and pathogen traits at different mean temperatures, leading to large and unexpected differences in disease burden making the impact of global warming on diseases hard to predict.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Extracellular electron transfer increases fermentation in lactic acid bacteria via a hybrid metabolism

    Sara Tejedor-Sanz, Eric T Stevens ... Maria L Marco
    Lactic acid bacteria engage a hybrid metabolism which blends features of fermentation and respiration when they perform extracellular electron transfer.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Adaptation of the periplasm to maintain spatial constraints essential for cell envelope processes and cell viability

    Eric Mandela, Christopher J Stubenrauch ... Iain D Hay
    The bacterial periplasm must adapt to factors effecting the width of the cell envelope.