In this work, Andrew Edwards and Lizzie Ledger show that host-triggered cell wall remodeling in S. aureus promotes evasion of phagocytosis by neutrophils. #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

SARS-CoV-2 infection predisposes patients to coinfection with Staphylococcus aureus. #mBio Victor J. Torres @dittmanlab journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Cytosolic serpins act in a type I IFN-dependent cytoprotective feedback loop in bacterial infection. #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

The three porin-cytochrome gene clusters of Geobacter metallireducens play essential, distinct, overlapping, and compensatory roles in the bacterial extracellular electron transfer. #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

New tools and methods to study Campylobacter hepaticus, the cause of Spotty Liver Disease in poultry. #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

How does host-symbiont specificity emerge at the very beginning of symbiosis? Takema Fukatsu #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Findings provide the molecular basis for sortase-catalyzed pilus tip assembly that is very likely employed by other Gram-positive bacteria and potential bioengineering applications to display antigens at controlled surface distance. Hung Ton-That #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

New studies reinforce accumulating evidence that spatial structuring can dictate community resilience and reveal that motility and chemotaxis are critical drivers of interspecies competition. Dominique Limoli #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Honey bees are critical pollinators, whose health is influenced by the bacteria in their guts. Lariviere et al. describe a simple approach for engineering the genome of diverse bee gut symbionts that is fast, accurate, and straightforward. @NancyMoran15 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

New study explores intracellular signal sensing by the phosphate-responsive PhoB/PhoR two-component signal transduction system from Salmonella enterica. #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

#mBio Editor's Pick: Natural selection and recombination at host-interacting lipoprotein loci drive genome diversification of Lyme disease and related bacteria.

Daitch, Smith, and Goley demonstrate that periplasmic sugars called OPGs are essential for morphogenesis in Caulobacter and that their loss activates the CenKR two-component system. Erin Goley Allison Daitch esmit191 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

New insights into the roles of different vaginal microbiota members during dysbiosis: Prevotella timonensis strongly adheres to vaginal epithelium and has high sialidase and fucosidase activity that degrades the protective glycocalyx. Karin Strijbis #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Delighted that our latest paper describing a platform enabling mapping of resistance- conferring mutations in anti-malarial drug targets is now out. WCAIR Univ of Dundee UoD Life Sciences mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

#mBio Minireview: Deciphering the roles of ISGs and their interactions with viral pathogens can help identify novel targets for antiviral therapies and enhance our preparedness to confront current and future viral threats. doi.org/10.1128/mbio.0…

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A T6SS pangenomic atlas paints a picture of Ralstonia as a bully that aggressively attacks all sorts of microbial targets with its T6SS. Nathalie Aoun Stratton Georgoulis Tiffany Lowe-Power tlowepower on 🟦🌥️ #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

This unique analysis combines pharmacokinetics and pathogen genomics to explore the relative contribution of these factors to clinical outcomes from HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis. William Hope John Perfect Katharine Stott journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Check out recent work from @KDoranLab Brady Spencer @Alyx_Job on T7SS competition in Group B Streptococcus mediated by a secreted LXG toxin. #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Qiu et al. developed a weighting system to adjust pneumococcal invasive disease data to represent the carriage population, allowing the NFDS mechanism to predict strain proportions in carriage in post-PCV13 era. Xueting Qiu Marc Lipsitch Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social CCDD at Harvard Chan journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…