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November 2013

The mouse host cell restricted attenuated vaccinia virus MVA is able to replicate and produce mature virions (green dots) in murine embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) lacking the cellular dual phosphatase DUSP1, involved in MAPK signaling pathway. See Cáceres et al.

Image Credit: Ana Cáceres, Beatriz Perdiguero, Carmen E. Gómez, Maria Victoria Cepeda, Carme Caelles, Carlos Oscar Sorzano, and Mariano Esteban (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC and University of Barcelona, Spain).

Pearls

Colonization Resistance: Battle of the Bugs or Ménage à Trois with the Host?

Alanna M. Spees, Christopher A. Lopez, Dawn D. Kingsbury, Sebastian E. Winter, Andreas J. Bäumler

Disease to Dirt: The Biology of Microbial Amyloids

David A. Hufnagel, Çagla Tükel, Matthew R. Chapman

The Biology and Taxonomy of Head and Body Lice—Implications for Louse-Borne Disease Prevention

Denise L. Bonilla, Lance A. Durden, Marina E. Eremeeva, Gregory A. Dasch

Baculoviruses: Sophisticated Pathogens of Insects

Rollie J. Clem, A. Lorena Passarelli

DNA Damage Repair and Bacterial Pathogens

Darja Žgur-Bertok

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The Effects of Somatic Hypermutation on Neutralization and Binding in the PGT121 Family of Broadly Neutralizing HIV Antibodies

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