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July 2024

The AasS acyl-ACP synthetase is an exogenous fatty acid scavenger of versatility, and potentially dampens the druggable pathway of bacterial type II fatty acid synthesis. The C10-AMS compound is a newly-identified inhibitor for AasS action. This study showed complex structure of AasS hexamer liganded with C10-AMS inhibitor, of which each protomer is locked in a closed form. Huang et al

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Pearls

Population heterogeneity in Cryptococcus neoformans: Impact on pathogenesis

Ruchi Agrawal, Raffael J. Araújo de Castro, Aude Sturny-Leclère, Alexandre Alanio

Research Articles

IL-10 suppresses T cell expansion while promoting tissue-resident memory cell formation during SARS-CoV-2 infection in rhesus macaques

Christine E. Nelson, Taylor W. Foreman, Eduardo R. Fukutani, Keith D. Kauffman, Shunsuke Sakai, Joel D. Fleegle, Felipe Gomez, NIAID/DIR Tuberculosis Imaging Program, Sydnee T. Gould, Cyril Le Nouën, Xueqiao Liu, Tracey L. Burdette, Nicole L. Garza, Bernard A. P. Lafont, Kelsie Brooks, Cecilia S. Lindestam Arlehamn, Daniela Weiskopf, Alessandro Sette, Heather D. Hickman, Ursula J. Buchholz, Reed F. Johnson, Jason M. Brenchley, James P. Oberman, Artur T. L. Quieroz, Bruno B. Andrade, Laura E. Via, Daniel L. Barber

Emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants from farmed mink to humans and back during the epidemic in Denmark, June-November 2020

Thomas Bruun Rasmussen, Amanda Gammelby Qvesel, Anders Gorm Pedersen, Ann Sofie Olesen, Jannik Fonager, Morten Rasmussen, Raphael Niklaus Sieber, Marc Stegger, Francisco Fernando Calvo-Artavia, Marlies Jilles Francine Goedknegt, Esben Rahbek Thuesen, Louise Lohse, Sten Mortensen, Anders Fomsgaard, Anette Boklund, Anette Bøtner, Graham J. Belsham

Influenza A viral burst size from thousands of infected single cells using droplet quantitative PCR (dqPCR)

Geoffrey K. Zath, Mallory M. Thomas, Emma K. Loveday, Dimitri A. Bikos, Steven Sanche, Ruian Ke, Christopher B. Brooke, Connie B. Chang

Host JAK-STAT activity is a target of parasitoid wasp virulence strategies

Susanna E. Brantley, Corinne M. Stouthamer, Pooja Kr, Mary L. Fischer, Joshua Hill, Todd A. Schlenke, Nathan T. Mortimer

Norwegian moose CWD induces clinical disease and neuroinvasion in gene-targeted mice expressing cervid S138N prion protein

Maria Immaculata Arifin, Samia Hannaoui, Raychal Ashlyn Ng, Doris Zeng, Irina Zemlyankina, Hanaa Ahmed-Hassan, Hermann M. Schatzl, Lech Kaczmarczyk, Walker S. Jackson, Sylvie L. Benestad, Sabine Gilch

Varroa destructor shapes the unique viral landscapes of the honey bee populations of the Azores archipelago

Ana R. Lopes, Matthew Low, Raquel Martín-Hernández, Joachim R. de Miranda, M. Alice Pinto

mRNA-encoded Cas13 treatment of Influenza via site-specific degradation of genomic RNA

Lorena C. S. Chaves, Nichole Orr-Burks, Daryll Vanover, Varun V. Mosur, Sarah R. Hosking, Pramod Kumar E. K., Hyeyoon Jeong, Younghun Jung, José A. F. Assumpção, Hannah E. Peck, Sarah L. Nelson, Kaitlyn N. Burke, McKinzie A. Garrison, Robert A. Arthur, Henry Claussen, Nicholas S. Heaton, Eric R. Lafontaine, Robert J. Hogan, Chiara Zurla, Philip J. Santangelo

A single gene mutation underpins metabolic adaptation and acquisition of filamentous competence in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris

Yuchen Deng, Ming Xu, Shuaihu Li, Jian Bing, Qiushi Zheng, Guanghua Huang, Wanqing Liao, Weihua Pan, Li Tao

Genome-wide CRISPR screenings identified SMCHD1 as a host-restricting factor for AAV transduction

Chenlu Wang, Yu Liu, Jingfei Xiong, Kun Xie, Tianshu Wang, Yu Hu, Huancheng Fu, Baiquan Zhang, Xiaochao Huang, Hui Bao, Haoyang Cai, Biao Dong, Zhonghan Li

Norovirus NS1/2 protein increases glutaminolysis for efficient viral replication

Adam Hafner, Noah Meurs, Ari Garner, Elaine Azar, Aditya Kannan, Karla D. Passalacqua, Deepak Nagrath, Christiane E. Wobus

Protection against experimental cryptococcosis elicited by Cationic Adjuvant Formulation 01-adjuvanted subunit vaccines

Ruiying Wang, Lorena V. N. Oliveira, Maureen M. Hester, Diana Carlson, Dennis Christensen, Charles A. Specht, Stuart M. Levitz

Extraneural infection route restricts prion conformational variability and attenuates the impact of quaternary structure on infectivity

Sheng Chun Chang, Maria Immaculata Arifin, Waqas Tahir, Keegan John McDonald, Doris Zeng, Hermann M. Schatzl, Samia Hannaoui, Sabine Gilch

Dual species transcriptomics reveals conserved metabolic and immunologic processes in interactions between human neutrophils and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Aimee D. Potter, Vonetta L. Edwards, Adonis D’Mello, Mary C. Gray, Amol C. Shetty, Amy L. Forehand, Camille S. Westlake, Evan R. Lamb, Xuechu Zhao, Stephanie A. Ragland, Alison K. Criss, Hervé Tettelin

Cytochrome oxidase requirements in Bordetella reveal insights into evolution towards life in the mammalian respiratory tract

Liliana S. McKay, Alexa R. Spandrio, Richard M. Johnson, M. Ashley Sobran, Sara A. Marlatt, Katlyn B. Mote, Margaret R. Dedloff, Zachary M. Nash, Steven M. Julio, Peggy A. Cotter

Long-lived central memory γδ T cells confer protection against murine cytomegalovirus reinfection

Nathalie Yared, Maria Papadopoulou, Pierre Barennes, Hang-Phuong Pham, Valentin Quiniou, Sonia Netzer, Hanna Kaminski, Laure Burguet, Amandine Demeste, Pacôme Colas, Lea Mora-Charrot, Benoit Rousseau, Julien Izotte, Atika Zouine, Xavier Gauthereau, David Vermijlen, Julie Déchanet-Merville, Myriam Capone

Epistatic interaction between ERAP2 and HLA modulates HIV-1 adaptation and disease outcome in an Australian population

Marwah Al-kaabi, Pooja Deshpande, Martin Firth, Rebecca Pavlos, Abha Chopra, Hamed Basiri, Jennifer Currenti, Eric Alves, Spyros Kalams, Jacques Fellay, Elizabeth Phillips, Simon Mallal, Mina John, Silvana Gaudieri

Sterol 14-alpha demethylase (CYP51) activity in Leishmania donovani is likely dependent upon cytochrome P450 reductase 1

Lindsay B. Tulloch, Michele Tinti, Richard J. Wall, Stefan K. Weidt, Victoriano Corpas- Lopez, Gourav Dey, Terry K. Smith, Alan H. Fairlamb, Michael P. Barrett, Susan Wyllie

Tolerance to Haemophilus influenzae infection in human epithelial cells: Insights from a primary cell-based model

Ulrike Kappler, Anna Henningham, Marufa Nasreen, Ayaho Yamamoto, Andrew H. Buultjens, Timothy P. Stinear, Peter Sly, Emmanuelle Fantino

Clinical and in vitro models identify distinct adaptations enhancing Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis in human macrophages

Dustin R. Long, Elizabeth A. Holmes, Hsin-Yu Lo, Kelsi Penewit, Jared Almazan, Taylor Hodgson, Nova F. Berger, Zoe H. Bishop, Janessa D. Lewis, Adam Waalkes, Daniel J. Wolter, Stephen J. Salipante

Shrimp shapes a resistance trait against vibriosis by memorizing the colonization resistance of intestinal microbiota

Jianbo Yuan, Yang Yu, Shihao Li, Xiaojun Zhang, Chuntao Zhang, Roujing Li, Jie Hu, Shuqing Si, Chengyi Zhang, Jianhai Xiang, Fuhua Li

An inhibitory mechanism of AasS, an exogenous fatty acid scavenger: Implications for re-sensitization of FAS II antimicrobials

Haomin Huang, Shenghai Chang, Tao Cui, Man Huang, Jiuxin Qu, Huimin Zhang, Ting Lu, Xing Zhang, Chun Zhou, Youjun Feng

The astrovirus N-terminal nonstructural protein anchors replication complexes to the perinuclear ER membranes

Hashim Ali, David Noyvert, Jacqueline Hankinson, Gemma Lindsey, Aleksei Lulla, Valeria Lulla

Sequencing of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV) genomes from persons of diverse ethnicities and provenances with KSHV-associated diseases demonstrate multiple infections, novel polymorphisms, and low intra-host variance

Vickie A. Marshall, Elena M. Cornejo Castro, Charles A. Goodman, Nazzarena Labo, Isabella Liu, Nicholas C. Fisher, Kyle N. Moore, Ananthakrishnan Nair, Taina Immonen, Brandon F. Keele, Mark N. Polizzotto, Thomas S. Uldrick, Yunxiang Mu, Tanuja Saswat, Laurie T. Krug, Kevin M. McBride, Kathryn Lurain, Ramya Ramaswami, Robert Yarchoan, Denise Whitby

N-glycosylation of viral glycoprotein is a novel determinant for the tropism and virulence of highly pathogenic tick-borne bunyaviruses

Masayuki Shimojima, Satoko Sugimoto, Satoshi Taniguchi, Takahiro Maeki, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Takeshi Kurosu, Shigeru Tajima, Chang-Kweng Lim, Hideki Ebihara

Induction of apoptosis by double-stranded RNA was present in the last common ancestor of cnidarian and bilaterian animals

Itamar Kozlovski, Adrian Jaimes-Becerra, Ton Sharoni, Magda Lewandowska, Ola Karmi, Yehu Moran

Evolutionary insights into the emergence of virulent Leptospira spirochetes

Alexandre Giraud-Gatineau, Cecilia Nieves, Luke B. Harrison, Nadia Benaroudj, Frédéric J. Veyrier, Mathieu Picardeau

Functional characterization of Cullin-1-RING ubiquitin ligase (CRL1) complex in Leishmania infantum

Camila Rolemberg Santana Travaglini Berti de Correia, Caroline Torres, Ellen Gomes, Giovana Maffei Rodriguez, Wesley Klaysson Pereira Regatieri, Nayore Tamie Takamiya, Luana Aparecida Rogerio, Iran Malavazi, Marcelo Damário Gomes, Jeziel Dener Damasceno, Vitor Luiz da Silva, Marcos Antonio Fernandes de Oliveira, Marcelo Santos da Silva, Alessandro Silva Nascimento, Adriano Cappellazzo Coelho, Sandra Regina Maruyama, Felipe Roberti Teixeira

BCC0 collaborates with IMC32 and IMC43 to form the Toxoplasma gondii essential daughter bud assembly complex

Rebecca R. Pasquarelli, Jihui Sha, James A. Wohlschlegel, Peter J. Bradley

Mutation of the conserved late element in geminivirus CP promoters abolishes Arabidopsis TCP24 transcription factor binding and decreases H3K27me3 levels on viral chromatin

Jacqueline Williams, Elizabeth Regedanz, Natalia Lucinda, Alba Ruth Nava Fereira, Gabriela Lacatus, Mary Berger, Nels O’Connell, Tami Coursey, Jianhua Ruan, David M. Bisaro, Garry Sunter

Single-cell analysis reveals lasting immunological consequences of influenza infection and respiratory immunization in the pig lung

Andrew Muir, Basudev Paudyal, Selma Schmidt, Ehsan Sedaghat-Rostami, Soumendu Chakravarti, Sonia Villanueva-Hernández, Katy Moffat, Noemi Polo, Nicos Angelopoulos, Anna Schmidt, Matthias Tenbusch, Graham Freimanis, Wilhelm Gerner, Arianne C. Richard, Elma Tchilian

A genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screen identifies TMEM239 as an important host factor in facilitating African swine fever virus entry into early endosomes

Dongdong Shen, Guigen Zhang, Xiaogang Weng, Renqiang Liu, Zhiheng Liu, Xiangpeng Sheng, Yuting Zhang, Yan Liu, Yanshuang Mu, Yuanmao Zhu, Encheng Sun, Jiwen Zhang, Fang Li, Changyou Xia, Junwei Ge, Zhonghua Liu, Zhigao Bu, Dongming Zhao

RACK1 enhances STAT3 stability and promotes T follicular helper cell development and function during blood-stage Plasmodium infection in mice

Qianqian Cheng, Xiqin Yang, Tao Zou, Lin Sun, Xueting Zhang, Lijiao Deng, Mengyao Wu, Wenbin Gai, Hui Jiang, Tingting Guo, Yuchen Lu, Jie Dong, Chunxiao Niu, Weiqing Pan, Jiyan Zhang

Allelic variations in the chpG effector gene within Clavibacter michiganensis populations determine pathogen host range

Raj Kumar Verma, Veronica Roman-Reyna, Hagai Raanan, Gitta Coaker, Jonathan M. Jacobs, Doron Teper

Highly restrictive and directional penetration of the blood cerebral spinal fluid barrier by JCPyV

Bethany A. O’Hara, Avraham S. Lukacher, Kaitlin Garabian, Jacob Kaiserman, Evan MacLure, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Horst Schroten, Sheila A. Haley, Walter J. Atwood

c-FLIP facilitates ZIKV infection by mediating caspase-8/3-dependent apoptosis

Shengze Zhang, Nina Li, Shu Wu, Ting Xie, Qiqi Chen, Jiani Wu, Shike Zeng, Lin Zhu, Shaohui Bai, Haolu Zha, Weijian Tian, Nan Wu, Xuan Zou, Shisong Fang, Chuming Luo, Mang Shi, Caijun Sun, Yuelong Shu, Huanle Luo

The two-component system TtrRS boosts Vibrio parahaemolyticus colonization by exploiting sulfur compounds in host gut

Xiaojun Zhong, Fuwen Liu, Tianqi Liang, Ranran Lu, Mengting Shi, Xiujuan Zhou, Menghua Yang

Species-specific IL-1β is an inflammatory sensor of Seneca Valley Virus 3C Protease

Xiangyu Huang, Zhenchao Zhao, Cheng Zhu, Lvye Chai, Ya Yan, Ye Yuan, Lei Wu, Minjie Li, Xiaohan Jiang, Haiwei Wang, Zheng Liu, Pingwei Li, Xin Li

Innate lymphoid cells are activated in HFRS, and their function can be modulated by hantavirus-induced type I interferons

Marina García, Anna Carrasco García, Whitney Weigel, Wanda Christ, Ronaldo Lira-Junior, Lorenz Wirth, Johanna Tauriainen, Kimia Maleki, Giulia Vanoni, Antti Vaheri, Satu Mäkelä, Jukka Mustonen, Johan Nordgren, Anna Smed-Sörensen, Tomas Strandin, Jenny Mjösberg, Jonas Klingström

The RNA helicase DHX35 functions as a co-sensor for RIG-I-mediated innate immunity

Yuan Qiao, Shan Zhu, Ning Yang, Shan-Shan Zou, Bao Gao, Jing Wu, Chunyan Liu, Xiaoping Li, Yong-Jun Liu, Jingtao Chen

Viral interference between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and influenza A viruses

Shella Gilbert-Girard, Jocelyne Piret, Julie Carbonneau, Mathilde Hénaut, Nathalie Goyette, Guy Boivin

Bacteriophage-driven emergence and expansion of Staphylococcus aureus in rodent populations

Gonzalo Yebra, Daniel Mrochen, Stefan Fischer, Florian Pfaff, Rainer G. Ulrich, Kathleen Pritchett-Corning, Silva Holtfreter, J. Ross Fitzgerald

Advances in an In Vitro Tuberculosis Infection Model Using Human Lung Organoids for Host-Directed Therapies

Seung-Yeon Kim, Ji-Ae Choi, Seri Choi, Kee K. Kim, Chang-Hwa Song, Eun-Mi Kim

Unraveling dynamics of paramyxovirus-receptor interactions using nanoparticles displaying hemagglutinin-neuraminidase

Xuesheng Wu, Maite Goebbels, Oliver Debski-Antoniak, Katherine Marougka, Lemeng Chao, Tony Smits, Tom Wennekes, Frank J. M. van Kuppeveld, Erik de Vries, Cornelis A. M. de Haan

Mixed Wolbachia infections resolve rapidly during in vitro evolution

Cade Mirchandani, Pingting Wang, Jodie Jacobs, Maximilian Genetti, Evan Pepper-Tunick, William T. Sullivan, Russell Corbett-Detig, Shelbi L. Russell

Fibronectin induces a transition from amoeboid to a fan morphology and modifies migration in Entamoeba histolytica

Maria Manich, Pascal Bochet, Aleix Boquet-Pujadas, Thierry Rose, Gertjan Laenen, Nancy Guillén, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Elisabeth Labruyère

Merkel cell polyomavirus protein ALTO modulates TBK1 activity to support persistent infection

Ranran Wang, Taylor E. Senay, Tiana T. Luo, Wei Liu, James M. Regan, Nicholas J. H. Salisbury, Denise A. Galloway, Jianxin You

The origin, deployment, and evolution of a plant-parasitic nematode effectorome

Beth Molloy, Dio S. Shin, Jonathan Long, Clement Pellegrin, Beatrice Senatori, Paulo Vieira, Peter J. Thorpe, Anika Damm, Mariam Ahmad, Kerry Vermeulen, Lida Derevnina, Siyuan Wei, Alexis Sperling, Estefany Reyes Estévez, Samuel Bruty, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, Olaf Prosper Kranse, Tom Maier, Thomas Baum, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

MARCH2, a T cell specific factor that restricts HIV-1 infection

Supawadee Umthong, Uddhav Timilsina, Mary R. D’Angelo, Kyle Salka, Spyridon Stavrou

Understanding early HIV-1 rebound dynamics following antiretroviral therapy interruption: The importance of effector cell expansion

Tin Phan, Jessica M. Conway, Nicole Pagane, Jasmine Kreig, Narmada Sambaturu, Sarafa Iyaniwura, Jonathan Z. Li, Ruy M. Ribeiro, Ruian Ke, Alan S. Perelson

Adaptive truncation of the S gene in IBV during chicken embryo passaging plays a crucial role in its attenuation

Rong Liang, Kangchengyin Liu, Yingfei Li, Xuehui Zhang, Linqing Duan, Min Huang, Lu Sun, Fang Yuan, Jing Zhao, Ye Zhao, Guozhong Zhang

Erg251 has complex and pleiotropic effects on sterol composition, azole susceptibility, filamentation, and stress response phenotypes

Xin Zhou, Audrey Hilk, Norma V. Solis, Nivea Pereira De Sa, Bode M. Hogan, Tessa A. Bierbaum, Maurizio Del Poeta, Scott G. Filler, Laura S. Burrack, Anna Selmecki

Citrate serves as a signal molecule to modulate carbon metabolism and iron homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus

Feifei Chen, Qingmin Zhao, Ziqiong Yang, Rongrong Chen, Huiwen Pan, Yanhui Wang, Huan Liu, Qiao Cao, Jianhua Gan, Xia Liu, Naixia Zhang, Cai-Guang Yang, Haihua Liang, Lefu Lan

Epstein-Barr virus protein EBNA-LP engages YY1 through leucine-rich motifs to promote naïve B cell transformation

Jana M. Cable, Nicolás M. Reinoso-Vizcaino, Robert E. White, Micah A. Luftig

Enteric tuft cells coordinate timely expulsion of the tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta from the murine host by coordinating local but not systemic immunity

Sruthi Rajeev, ShuHua Li, Aralia Leon-Coria, Arthur Wang, Lucas Kraemer, Susan Joanne Wang, Annaliese Boim, Kyle Flannigan, Adam Shute, Cristiane H. Baggio, Blanca E. Callejas, Wallace K. MacNaughton, Constance A. M. Finney, Derek M. McKay

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