Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Linalool’s Multifaceted Antimicrobial Potential: Unveiling its Antimicrobial Efficacy and Immunomodulatory Role Against Saprolegnia parasitica

    Tao Tang, Weiming Zhong ... Zhipeng Gao
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Soluble immune mediators orchestrate protective in vitro granulomatous responses across Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineages

    Ainhoa Arbués, Sarah Schmidiger ... Damien Portevin
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Regulative synthesis of capsular polysaccharides in the pathogenesis of Streptococcus suis

    Xingye Wang, Jie Wang ... Beinan Wang
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    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

    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
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    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.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Impaired fatty acid import or catabolism in macrophages restricts intracellular growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Nelson V Simwela, Eleni Jaecklein ... David G Russell
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
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    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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    University of Michigan, United States
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    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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