Articles in 2024

In a recent study, Lin et al. uncovered that a single substitution in the bovine influenza H5N1 haemagglutinin protein switches the specificity to human receptors.

A recent study found that soil microbial communities show consistent and predictable responses to extreme climatic events.

A recent study shows that the commensal bacterium Lactiplantibacillus plantarum recognizes the foregut of the fruit fly as its physical niche via sugar-binding adhesins.

In this journal club, Lucy Thorne discusses a paper that compares pandemic and non-pandemic HIV and shows that the ability of pandemic HIV to effectively evade the host’s innate immune response is a key factor in its pandemic potential.

In this study, Castells-Nobau et al. show that bacteriophages present in the gut microbiome contribute to the regulation of food addiction.

This study shows that the Campylobacter jejuni-derived genotoxin named cytolethal distending toxin promotes colorectal cancer metastasis.

In this study, Padhi et al. demonstrate the potential of metagenomics-based approaches for the discovery of natural products from complex ecosystems.

This Genome Watch article highlights recent findings that expand the known diversity of methanogenic archaea and the metagenomic evidence that led to their identification and cultivation.

In this Review, Scott et al. review our current knowledge of Shigella sonnei, highlighting recent insights into this globally disseminated antimicrobial-resistant pathogen and assessing how novel data may have an impact on future vaccine development and implementation.

In this Review, Sigal et al. explore SARS-CoV-2 persistence mechanisms, the frequency of persistent infections, their role in accelerated evolution and their link to variant emergence hot spots. The Review also addresses symptoms, management and the connection between persistence and post-COVID conditions.

In this Review, Watashi et al. explore hepatitis B virus and hepatitis D virus entry, focusing on the early phase driven by viral surface antigens and related host factors, highlight the role of viral entry in tropism and discuss the potential for drug development targeting this process.

In a recent study, Gaborieau, Vaysset, Tesson et al. developed a method to predict phage–host specificity using genomic data.

In a recent study, Liu, Huang, Guo, McCallum et al. present a method to create functional, customized coronavirus receptors, which could facilitate the development of infection models that do not rely on native receptors.

Loveridge and Sigala uncover a divalent metal transporter that is required for cellular iron metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum parasites.

In this study, Tofani et al. demonstrate that the gut microbiota regulates stress responsiveness in mice via the circadian system.

This study provides insights into how adaptive changes in evolved microbial communities can affect pathogen invasion.

In this Review, Giorgio and Helaine provide an overview of the physiology of antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella enterica during infection, discuss recent insights into the clinical implications of antibiotic-recalcitrant S. enterica infection and highlight important knowledge gaps that warrant further research.

In this study, Ge et al. develop a mimic of natural killer cells to target and eliminate intracellular Staphylococcus aureus.

This Genome Watch discusses the use of metagenomic sequencing to investigate resistome dynamics in river ecosystems and their associations with the mobilome and microbiome, underscoring the role of rivers as reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance genes.