This Collection of articles aims to shine a light on the many facets of immunometabolism, highlighting how molecular and cellular mechanisms impact diverse tissue and organismal functions and the exci...

To cause disease, pathogens must express their virulence genes at the right time and in proper levels. Here, we establish that a small RNA (sRNA) restricts the activation of a regulator critical for t...

Inside macrophages, Salmonella faces magnesium scarcity that disrupts cAMP synthesis and carbon metabolism. This study shows that the PhoP regulator restores metabolic control by promoting Mg2+ uptake...

Translation termination is catalyzed by one of two release factors in bacteria, RF1 or RF2. It has been known for decades that RF2 levels in Escherichia coli are regulated by a programmed ribosomal frameshift within the prfB gene that encodes RF2. We ...

Nutritional immunity is an antimicrobial strategy that evolved to starve pathogens of essential nutrients, with death as the desired outcome. Here, we report that transient iron starvation of the obli...

Anaerobic phenazine cycling by an opportunistic bacterial pathogen supports a low-power, non-growth metabolism that lends itself to quantitative and mechanistic study of maintenance physiology.

Nature Reviews Microbiology - Metal ions are required for all cells, and their homeostasis relies on ancient mechanisms that facilitate their import, distribution and storage. In this Review,...

The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius.  ...

Partitioning of FtsN and the septal peptidoglycan synthesis complex between an active synthesis track and an inactive denuded glycan track coordinates opposing peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation ...

Dozens of NIH staffers walked out when Jay Bhattacharya promoted the unproven COVID origins story; others protested research cuts.

To what extent can we predict future pathogenic microbes? This Perspective discusses why complex requirements for virulence and dynamic host-microbe interactions make probabilistic predictions difficu...

Executive order on gain-of-function experiments could chill research on infectious diseases, scientists say

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