Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    Prophage regulation of Shewanella fidelis 3313 motility and biofilm formation: implications for gut colonization dynamics in Ciona robusta

    Ojas Natarajan, Susanne L Gibboney ... Larry J Dishaw
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    A SHERLOCK toolbox for eco-epidemiological surveillance of African trypanosomes in domestic pigs from Western Africa

    Roger-Junior Eloiflin, Elena Pérez-Antón ... Brice Rotureau
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    • Important
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    A rapid transfer of virions coated with heparan sulfate from the ECM to cell surface CD151 defines a step in the human papillomavirus infection cascade

    Annika Massenberg, Yahya Homsi ... Thorsten Lang
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    A Conserved Mycobacterial Nucleomodulin Hijacks the Host COMPASS Complex to Reprogram Pro-Inflammatory Transcription and Promote Intracellular Survival

    Liu Chen, Baojie Duan ... Aizhen Guo
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    The interplay of membrane tension and FtsZ filament condensation on the initiation and progression of cell division in B. subtilis

    Diego A Ramirez-Diaz, Lei Yin ... Ethan C Garner
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
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    Spatial integration of sensory input and motor output in Pseudomonas aeruginosa chemotaxis through colocalized distribution

    Zhengyu Wu, Maojin Tian ... Junhua Yuan
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    Navigating contradictions in enteric chemotactic stimuli

    Kailie Franco, Zealon Gentry-Lear ... Arden Baylink
    Motile Enterobacteriaceae override chemorepulsion from the microbiota metabolite indole in favor of nutrient attraction, challenging the idea that indole taxis protects the host against intestinal infection.
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    A biofilm-tropic Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage uses the exopolysaccharide Psl as receptor

    Brenna Walton, Serena Abbodante ... Arne Rietsch
    Certain bacteriophage are specifically adapted to infecting biofilm bacteria by exploiting biofilm characteristics, such as the exopolysaccharides produced by bacteria in biofilms.
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    Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus P118 enhances host tolerance to Salmonella infection by promoting microbe-derived indole metabolites

    Baikui Wang, Xianqi Peng ... Min Yue
    Probiotic P118 against Salmonella infections by directly antibacterial actions, inhibiting Salmonella colonization and invasion, attenuating macrophage pro-inflammatory responses, and modulating gut microbiota mediated by microbe-derived indole metabolites.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterium tuberculosis partitions the Krebs cycle to persist under iron starvation

    Agnese Serafini, Acely Garza-Garcia ... Riccardo Manganelli
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
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