Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    Antimicrobial activity of iron-depriving pyoverdines against human opportunistic pathogens

    Vera Vollenweider, Karoline Rehm ... Rolf Kümmerli
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    Reviewed Preprint v2 Updated
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Monoclonal antibodies derived from B cells in subjects with cystic fibrosis reduce Pseudomonas aeruginosa burden in mice

    Malika Hale, Kennidy K Takehara ... Marion Pepper
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The nanoscale organization of the Nipah virus fusion protein informs new membrane fusion mechanisms

    Qian Wang, Jinxin Liu ... Qian Liu
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A biofilm-tropic Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage uses the exopolysaccharide Psl as receptor

    Brenna Walton, Serena Abbondante ... Arne Rietsch
    Not yet revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Heparan sulphate binding controls in vivo half-life of the HpARI protein family

    Florent Colomb, Abhishek Jamwal ... Henry J McSorley
    The HpARI family members can either suppress or amplify responses to IL-33, and also differ in their half-life in vivo due to binding to the extracellular matrix constituent, heparan sulphate.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    CARD8 inflammasome activation during HIV-1 cell-to-cell transmission

    Jessie Kulsuptrakul, Michael Emerman, Patrick S Mitchell
    Not yet revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Host-derived Lactobacillus plantarum alleviates hyperuricemia by improving gut microbial community and hydrolase-mediated degradation of purine nucleosides

    Yang Fu, Xiao-Dan Luo ... Wence Wang
    Lactobacillus plantarum regulates host uric acid metabolism via its own nucleoside hydrolase iunH.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    β-1,6-glucan plays a central role in the structure and remodeling of the bilaminate fungal cell wall

    Clara Bekirian, Isabel Valsecchi ... Thierry Fontaine
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Telomerase RNA component knockout exacerbates S. aureus pneumonia by extensive inflammation and dysfunction of T cells

    Yasmina Reisser, Franziska Hornung ... Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2 Updated
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Staphylococcus aureus counters organic acid anion-mediated inhibition of peptidoglycan cross-linking through robust alanine racemase activity

    Sasmita Panda, Yahani P Jayasinghe ... Vinai C Thomas
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    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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    University of Helsinki, Finland
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    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
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