The T7 bacteriophage deactivates bacterial defence systems through T7K phosphorylation of nearly all host and phage proteins during infection.

Reconstructing microbial genomes from 820 reef-building corals collected at 99 reefs across 32 islands throughout the Pacific Ocean highlights the importance of conserving coral reefs as vital reservo...

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Nature Communications - The role of ecological factors in modulating the spread of antibiotic-resistance bacteria in the gut remains unclear. Here, the authors use anaerobic microcosms to study the...

Despite its critical importance in the formation and maintenance of ecosystems and homeostasis on Earth, biodiversity remains a complex and non-unified concept. Consequently, standards for measuring b...

Pluripotent stem cells (SCs) rely on metabolic rewiring to regulate self-renewal and differentiation. The hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) integrates multiple metabolic inputs to produce uridine ...

Serotyping of bacteria using genomic information ( in silico serotyping) has increasingly replaced serology. However, the E. coli capsule serotyping system has been largely abandoned since the 1990s, ...

Metalog is a repository of manually annotated metadata (or contextual data) for metagenomic sequencing data from across the globe.

About 15,000 pairwise interactions within S. epidermidis from 18 people in 6 families reveal the antagonism and molecular trade-offs that shape the skin microbiota.

Antimicrobial resistance is recognized as a major global health threat. Pathogens can rapidly evolve resistance which diminishes the impact of antimicrobial treatments. The presence of other microbes ...

This page highlights recent articles on all aspects of bacteriology, mycology, parasitology and virology, covering the biology of pathogens, host-pathogen ...

Published in Science, a ground-breaking study by the Slack group reveals how combining vaccines with friendly bacteria can boost vaccination efficacy and potentially reduce reliance on antibiotics.

Nature Communications - Acute systemic immune activation may affect gut-luminal colonisation dynamics. Here, the authors show that LPS exposure in mice elevates gut-luminal oxygen species levels,...

Bacteria and bacteriophages are in a constant arms race to develop bacterial defense and phage counter-defense systems. Currently known phage counter-defense systems are specific to (the activity of) ...

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The wide adoption of bacterial genome sequencing and encoding both core and accessory genome variation using k-mers has allowed bacterial genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to identify genetic var...