Mapping in-cell protein contact sites reveals hijacking of paraspeckles during influenza A virus infection
Immortalized cell lines Human A549 (86012804; ECACC) and HEK293T (CRL-3216; ATCC) cells were cultured in DMEM (11960044; Gibco)…
‘Explosive diarrhoea’ outbreak grips US: how researchers are hunting its source
The diarrhoea-causing parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis reproduces through egg-like structures called oocysts (stained orange in this microscope image).Credit: CDC/DPDx…
Self-generated hydrogel ejects bacterial cells for localized biofilm dispersion
Bacterial strains The B. subtilis strains used in this study are listed in Supplementary Table 1. The capBCAE…
Mobile genetic elements shape microbial diversity and functions in thawing permafrost soils
Data collection, metagenome assembly and binning, gene annotation and taxonomy assignment Our study site, Stordalen Mire, is a…
Deep learning reveals antimicrobial peptides within prions
Prion sequence curation and peptide mining We curated 2,897 UniProt entries annotated with prion keyword (keyword: KW-0640; accessed…
A phage puts a new spin on bacterial flagella
Transposon-encoded TnpB proteins are RNA-guided nucleases that use a transposon-encoded guide RNA to cleave DNA target sequences, promoting…
Temperate phages enhance bacterial host fitness via RNA-guided flagellar remodelling
Mata, J., Marguerat, S. & Bähler, J. Post-transcriptional control of gene expression: a genome-wide perspective. Trends Biochem. Sci.…
Next-generation probiotics: an outlook into current applications and future developments
Hill, C. et al. The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and…
Bridging continuous and discrete evolution through a controllable, hypermutagenic phage-bacteria system
General methods All E. coli and phage strains created in this study are listed in Supplementary Table 1,…
Nuclease–NTPase antiphage defence systems use conserved molecular features to control bacterial immunity
Roberts, R. J. et al. A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucleases and their genes. Nucleic…
Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through insertion sequence-mediated gene inactivation
Ho, C. S. et al. Antimicrobial resistance: a concise update. Lancet Microbe 6, 100947 (2025). Article PubMed Google…
Prediction of eukaryotic cellular complexity in Asgard archaea using structural modelling
Stanier, R. Y., Doudoroff, M. & Adelberg, E. A. The Microbial World (Prentice-Hall, 1963). Vosseberg, J. et al.…