Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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1. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Glycine acylation and trafficking of a new class of bacterial lipoprotein by a composite secretion system

   Christopher Icke et al.
2. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   An interbacterial DNA deaminase toxin directly mutagenizes surviving target populations

   Marcos H de Moraes et al.

   Interbacterial interactions can promote mutagenesis, and possibly adaptation, when intoxicated cells survive exposure to type VI secretion-delivered DNA deaminase toxins.
3. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Bacterial Warfare: Toxins, mutations and adaptations

   Maarten De Jong, Neal M Alto

   The toxins that some bacteria secrete to kill off rival species can also generate mutations that help toxin-resistant populations adapt to new environments.
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Viral load and contact heterogeneity predict SARS-CoV-2 transmission and super-spreading events

   Ashish Goyal et al.
5. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Dynamic interactions between the RNA chaperone Hfq, small regulatory RNAs and mRNAs in live bacterial cells

   Seongjin Park et al.
6. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Redox controls RecA protein activity via reversible oxidation of its methionine residues

   Camille Henry et al.
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   The Spike D614G mutation increases SARS-CoV-2 infection of multiple human cell types

   Zharko Daniloski et al.

   A pervasive mutation in the Spike protein of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 results in virions that are up to eightfold more infectious.
8. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Virus infection of the CNS disrupts the immune-neural-synaptic axis via induction of pleiotropic gene regulation of host responses

   Olga A Maximova et al.

   Virus infection of the central nervous system disrupts the homeostasis of the immune-neural-synaptic axis via induction of pleiotropic genes with an unintended off-target negative impact on the neurotransmission.
9. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   A pentameric protein ring with novel architecture is required for herpesviral packaging

   Allison L Didychuk et al.

   The first structures of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus ORF68 and Epstein–Barr virus BFLF1, conserved and essential proteins required in herpesviruses, reveal new insights into viral genome packaging.
10. 1. Ecology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Three-dimensional biofilm colony growth supports a mutualism involving matrix and nutrient sharing

    Heidi A Arjes et al.