Microbiology

The Lyme disease agent co-opts adiponectin receptor-mediated signaling in its arthropod vector

1. Xiaotian Tang
2. Yongguo Cao
3. Gunjan Arora
4. Jesse Hwang
5. Andaleeb Sajid
6. Courtney L Brown
7. Sameet Mehta
8. Alejandro Marín-López
9. Yu-Min Chuang
10. Ming-Jie Wu
11. Hongwei Ma
12. Utpal Pal
13. Sukanya Narasimhan
14. Erol Fikrig

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This article identifies a new metabolic pathway in ticks that Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, requires for survival. The authors show that the adiponectin receptor (ISARL) is upregulated after a blood meal and find that the tick complement C1q-like protein (C1QL3) is an ISARL ligand whose knockdown impairs spirochete colonization.

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Comparison of Plaque Size, Thermal Stability, and Replication Rate among SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern

1. Gi Uk Jeong
2. Gun Young Yoon
3. Hyun Woo Moon
4. Wooseong Lee
5. Insu Hwang
6. Haesoo Kim
7. Kyun-Do Kim
8. Chonsaeng Kim
9. Dae-Gyun Ahn
10. Bum-Tae Kim
11. Seong-Jun Kim
12. Young-Chan Kwon

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SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Infect the Respiratory Tract and Induce Inflammatory Response in Wild-Type Laboratory Mice

1. Shannon Stone
2. Hussin Alwan Rothan
3. Janhavi Prasad Natekar
4. Pratima Kumari
5. Shaligram Sharma
6. Heather Pathak
7. Komal Arora
8. Tabassum Tasnim Auroni
9. Mukesh Kumar

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Ad26.COV2.S Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Induced Pathways of Inflammation and Thrombosis in Hamsters

1. Malika Aid
2. Samuel J. Vidal
3. Cesar Piedra-Mora
4. Sarah Ducat
5. Chi N. Chan
6. Stephen Bondoc
7. Alessandro Colarusso
8. Carly E. Starke
9. Michael Nekorchuk
10. Kathleen Busman-Sahay
11. Jacob D. Estes
12. Amanda J. Martinot
13. Dan H. Barouch

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Nasopharyngeal Microbiota as an early severity biomarker in COVID-19 hospitalised patients

1. Maria Paz Ventero
2. Oscar Moreno-Perez
3. Carmen Molina-Pardines
4. Andreu Paytuví-Gallart
5. Vicente Boix
6. Isabel Escribano
7. Irene Galan
8. Pilar González-delaAleja
9. Mario López-Pérez
10. Rosario Sánchez-Martínez
11. Esperanza Merino
12. Juan Carlos Rodríguez

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Milk casein prevents inactivation effect of black tea galloylated theaflavins on SARS-CoV-2 in vitro

1. Eriko Ohgitani
2. Masaharu Shin-Ya
3. Masaki Ichitani
4. Makoto Kobayashi
5. Takanobu Takihara
6. Motoki Saito
7. Hitoshi Kinugasa
8. Osam Mazda

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Divergent acyl carrier protein decouples mitochondrial Fe-S cluster biogenesis from fatty acid synthesis in malaria parasites

1. Seyi Falekun
2. Jaime Sepulveda
3. Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi
4. Hahnbeom Park
5. James A Wohlschlegel
6. Paul A Sigala

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This study defines the role of a divergent mitochondrial-localized isoform of a FASII acyl carrier protein (mACP) in the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. In contrast to the situation in other eukaryotes, mACP is not involved in fatty acid biosynthesis, but is primarily involved in stabilizing proteins involved in mitochondrial Fe-S complex formation. Analysis of mACP function in these protists indicates that ACP acquired a role in Fe-S complex formation early in eukaryotic evolution and highlights additional components of the Plasmodium respiratory chain that are important for viability.

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Spike-Independent Infection of Human Coronavirus 229E in Bat Cells

1. Marcus G. Mah
2. Martin Linster
3. Dolyce H. W. Low
4. Yan Zhuang
5. Jayanthi Jayakumar
6. Firdaus Samsudin
7. Foong Ying Wong
8. Peter J. Bond
9. Ian H. Mendenhall
10. Yvonne C. F. Su
11. Gavin J. D. Smith

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Deactivation of SARS-CoV-2 surrogate porcine epidemic diarrhea virus with electron beam irradiation under the cold chain transportation condition

1. Yan Liu
2. Yang Shao
3. Lu Wang
4. Weilai Lu
5. Shihua Li
6. Diandou Xu
7. Yu Vincent Fu

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Apixaban, an orally available anticoagulant, inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication by targeting its major protease in a non-competitive way

1. Otávio Augusto Chaves
2. Carolina Q. Sacramento
3. Natalia Fintelman-Rodrigues
4. Jairo Ramos Temerozo
5. Filipe Pereira-Dutra
6. Daniella M. Mizurini
7. Robson Q. Monteiro
8. Leonardo Vazquez
9. Patricia T. Bozza
10. Hugo Caire Castro-Faria-Neto
11. Thiago Moreno L. Souza

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