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September 2020

Fluorescence-microscopy image of bacterial biosensor cells doped into a population of surface-attached P. aeruginosa. Only biosensor cells are shown. Precise alkyl-quinolone quantification enabled the authors to show that attachment of P. aeruginosa to biotic and abiotic surfaces stimulates the production of cytotoxic alkyl-quinolones, which become more potent when packaged and delivered to host cells in secreted outer-membrane vesicles. Vrla et al.

Image Credit: Vrla G (2020)

Viewpoints

Can data from paediatric cohorts solve the COVID-19 puzzle?

Lien Anh Ha Do, Jeremy Anderson, Edward Kim Mulholland, Paul V. Licciardi

Opinion

Translational Research in the Time of COVID-19—Dissolving Boundaries

Jonathan D. Edgeworth, Rahul Batra, Gaia Nebbia, Karen Bisnauthsing, Eithne MacMahon, Malur Sudhanva, Sam Douthwaite, Simon Goldenberg, Geraldine O’Hara, Manu Shankar-Hari, Katie J. Doores, Rocio Martinez-Nunez, Carolyn Hemsley, Nicholas M. Price, Jill Lockett, Robert I. Lechler, Stuart J. D. Neil, Michael H. Malim

Pearls

Coinfections in wildlife: Focus on a neglected aspect of infectious disease epidemiology

Axel O. G. Hoarau, Patrick Mavingui, Camille Lebarbenchon

The antiviral immune forces awaken in the cancer wars

Dohun Pyeon, Lexi Vu, Nicholas S. Giacobbi, Joseph A. Westrich

Rethinking host range in Pneumocystis

Spenser J. Babb-Biernacki, Jacob A. Esselstyn, Vinson P. Doyle

Bringing the path toward an HIV-1 vaccine into focus

Cesar J. Lopez Angel, Georgia D. Tomaras

Battlefronts of evolutionary conflict between bacteria and animal hosts

Omoshola Aleru, Matthew F. Barber

Reviews

Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats

Kevin J. Olival, Paul M. Cryan, Brian R. Amman, Ralph S. Baric, David S. Blehert, Cara E. Brook, Charles H. Calisher, Kevin T. Castle, Jeremy T. H. Coleman, Peter Daszak, Jonathan H. Epstein, Hume Field, Winifred F. Frick, Amy T. Gilbert, David T. S. Hayman, Hon S. Ip, William B. Karesh, Christine K. Johnson, Rebekah C. Kading, Tigga Kingston, Jeffrey M. Lorch, Ian H. Mendenhall, Alison J. Peel, Kendra L. Phelps, Raina K. Plowright, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Jonathan D. Reichard, Jonathan M. Sleeman, Daniel G. Streicker, Jonathan S. Towner, Lin-Fa Wang

Beyond clinical trials: Evolutionary and epidemiological considerations for development of a universal influenza vaccine

Cécile Viboud, Katelyn Gostic, Martha I. Nelson, Graeme E. Price, Amanda Perofsky, Kaiyuan Sun, Nídia Sequeira Trovão, Benjamin J. Cowling, Suzanne L. Epstein, David J. Spiro

Research Articles

Phosphorylation controls RNA binding and transcription by the influenza virus polymerase

Anthony R. Dawson, Gary M. Wilson, Elyse C. Freiberger, Arindam Mondal, Joshua J. Coon, Andrew Mehle

NS5-V372A and NS5-H386Y variations are responsible for differences in interferon α/β induction and co-contribute to the replication advantage of Japanese encephalitis virus genotype I over genotype III in ducklings

Chenxi Li, Di Di, Hui Huang, Xin Wang, Qiqi Xia, Xiaochun Ma, Ke Liu, Beibei Li, Donghua Shao, Yafeng Qiu, Zongjie Li, Jianchao Wei, Zhiyong Ma

Adjuvanted HIV-1 vaccine promotes antibody-dependent phagocytic responses and protects against heterologous SHIV challenge

Kier Om, Dominic Paquin-Proulx, Maria Montero, Kristina Peachman, Xiaoying Shen, Lindsay Wieczorek, Zoltan Beck, Joshua A. Weiner, Dohoon Kim, Yifan Li, Thembi Mdluli, Zhanna Shubin, Christopher Bryant, Vishakha Sharma, Andrey Tokarev, Peter Dawson, Yohann White, Oliver Appelbe, Nichole R. Klatt, Sodsai Tovanabutra, Jacob D. Estes, Gary R. Matyas, Guido Ferrari, Carl R. Alving, Georgia D. Tomaras, Margaret E. Ackerman, Nelson L. Michael, Merlin L. Robb, Victoria Polonis, Morgane Rolland, Michael A. Eller, Mangala Rao, Diane L. Bolton

Cross-utilisation of template RNAs by alphavirus replicases

Laura Sandra Lello, Age Utt, Koen Bartholomeeusen, Sainan Wang, Kai Rausalu, Catherine Kendall, Sandra Coppens, Rennos Fragkoudis, Andrew Tuplin, Luke Alphey, Kevin K. Ariën, Andres Merits

The gammaherpesviral TATA-box-binding protein directly interacts with the CTD of host RNA Pol II to direct late gene transcription

Angelica F. Castañeda, Allison L. Didychuk, Robert K. Louder, Chloe O. McCollum, Zoe H. Davis, Eva Nogales, Britt A. Glaunsinger

Infection with multiple HIV-1 founder variants is associated with lower viral replicative capacity, faster CD4+ T cell decline and increased immune activation during acute infection

Gladys N. Macharia, Ling Yue, Ecco Staller, Dario Dilernia, Daniel Wilkins, Heeyah Song, Edward McGowan, Deborah King, Pat Fast, Nesrina Imami, Matthew A. Price, Eduard J. Sanders, Eric Hunter, Jill Gilmour

Human cytomegalovirus evades ZAP detection by suppressing CpG dinucleotides in the major immediate early 1 gene

Yao-Tang Lin, Stephen Chiweshe, Dominique McCormick, Anna Raper, Arthur Wickenhagen, Victor DeFillipis, Eleanor Gaunt, Peter Simmonds, Sam J. Wilson, Finn Grey

Combined prophylactic and therapeutic immune responses against human papillomaviruses induced by a thioredoxin-based L2-E7 nanoparticle vaccine

Xueer Zhao, Fan Yang, Filipe Mariz, Wolfram Osen, Angelo Bolchi, Simone Ottonello, Martin Müller

The p150 Isoform of ADAR1 Blocks Sustained RLR signaling and Apoptosis during Influenza Virus Infection

Olivia A. Vogel, Julianna Han, Chieh-Yu Liang, Santhakumar Manicassamy, Jasmine T. Perez, Balaji Manicassamy

Intrahepatic CXCL10 is strongly associated with liver fibrosis in HIV-Hepatitis B co-infection

Kasha P. Singh, Jennifer M. Zerbato, Wei Zhao, Sabine Braat, Claire Deleage, G. Surekha Tennakoon, Hugh Mason, Ashanti Dantanarayana, Ajantha Rhodes, Jake W. Rhodes, Joe Torresi, Andrew N. Harman, Peter A. Revill, Megan Crane, Jacob D. Estes, Anchalee Avihingsanon, Sharon R. Lewin, Jennifer Audsley

Plasmodium sporozoites induce regulatory macrophages

Béatrice M. F. Winkel, Leonard R. Pelgrom, Roos van Schuijlenburg, Els Baalbergen, Munisha S. Ganesh, Heleen Gerritsma, Clarize M. de Korne, Nikolas Duszenko, Marijke C. C. Langenberg, Séverine C. Chevalley-Maurel, Hermelijn H. Smits, Esther C. de Jong, Bart Everts, Blandine Franke-Fayard, Meta Roestenberg

Identification of a homology-independent linchpin domain controlling mouse and bank vole prion protein conversion

Cassandra M. Burke, Kenneth M. K. Mark, Daniel J. Walsh, Geoffrey P. Noble, Alexander D. Steele, Abigail B. Diack, Jean C. Manson, Joel C. Watts, Surachai Supattapone

Lyssavirus P-protein selectively targets STAT3-STAT1 heterodimers to modulate cytokine signalling

Angela R. Harrison, Kim G. Lieu, Florence Larrous, Naoto Ito, Hervé Bourhy, Gregory W. Moseley

Toll-like receptor 4-mediated inflammation triggered by extracellular IFI16 is enhanced by lipopolysaccharide binding

Andrea Iannucci, Valeria Caneparo, Stefano Raviola, Isacco Debernardi, Donato Colangelo, Riccardo Miggiano, Gloria Griffante, Santo Landolfo, Marisa Gariglio, Marco De Andrea

A role for gorilla APOBEC3G in shaping lentivirus evolution including transmission to humans

Yusuke Nakano, Keisuke Yamamoto, Mahoko Takahashi Ueda, Andrew Soper, Yoriyuki Konno, Izumi Kimura, Keiya Uriu, Ryuichi Kumata, Hirofumi Aso, Naoko Misawa, Shumpei Nagaoka, Soma Shimizu, Keito Mitsumune, Yusuke Kosugi, Guillermo Juarez-Fernandez, Jumpei Ito, So Nakagawa, Terumasa Ikeda, Yoshio Koyanagi, Reuben S. Harris, Kei Sato

A comprehensive, longitudinal analysis of humoral responses specific to four recombinant antigens of SARS-CoV-2 in severe and non-severe COVID-19 patients

Yuxin Chen, Xin Tong, Yang Li, Bin Gu, Jiawei Yan, Yong Liu, Han Shen, Rui Huang, Chao Wu

The nesting preference of an invasive ant is associated with the cues produced by actinobacteria in soil

Hongmei Huang, Lu Ren, Huijing Li, Axel Schmidt, Jonathan Gershenzon, Yongyue Lu, Daifeng Cheng

Contributions of IFN-γ and granulysin to the clearance of Plasmodium yoelii blood stage

Natália Satchiko Hojo-Souza, Patrick Orestes de Azevedo, Júlia Teixeira de Castro, Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho, Judy Lieberman, Caroline Junqueira, Ricardo Tostes Gazzinelli

Cytotoxic alkyl-quinolones mediate surface-induced virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Geoffrey D. Vrla, Mark Esposito, Chen Zhang, Yibin Kang, Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, Zemer Gitai

Variation in HIV-1 Nef function within and among viral subtypes reveals genetically separable antagonism of SERINC3 and SERINC5

Steven W. Jin, Francis M. Mwimanzi, Jaclyn K. Mann, Mwebesa Bosco Bwana, Guinevere Q. Lee, Chanson J. Brumme, Peter W. Hunt, Jeff N. Martin, David R. Bangsberg, Thumbi Ndung’u, Zabrina L. Brumme, Mark A. Brockman

Evidence that immunization with TP0751, a bipartite Treponema pallidum lipoprotein with an intrinsically disordered region and lipocalin fold, fails to protect in the rabbit model of experimental syphilis

Amit Luthra, Jairo M. Montezuma-Rusca, Carson J. La Vake, Morgan LeDoyt, Kristina N. Delgado, Timothy C. Davenport, Mary Fiel-Gan, Melissa J. Caimano, Justin D. Radolf, Kelly L. Hawley

Emergence of genotype C1 Enterovirus A71 and its link with antigenic variation of virus in Taiwan

Kuan-Ying A. Huang, Peng-Nien Huang, Yhu-Chering Huang, Shu-Li Yang, Kuo-Chien Tsao, Cheng-Hsun Chiu, Shin-Ru Shih, Tzou-Yien Lin

Innate, non-cytolytic CD8+ T cell-mediated suppression of HIV replication by MHC-independent inhibition of virus transcription

Michelle Zanoni, David Palesch, Claudia Pinacchio, Maura Statzu, Gregory K. Tharp, Mirko Paiardini, Ann Chahroudi, Steven E. Bosinger, Jack Yoon, Bryan Cox, Guido Silvestri, Deanna A. Kulpa

3-Dimensional organization and dynamics of the microsporidian polar tube invasion machinery

Pattana Jaroenlak, Michael Cammer, Alina Davydov, Joseph Sall, Mahrukh Usmani, Feng-Xia Liang, Damian C. Ekiert, Gira Bhabha

Kinetics of Plasmodium midgut invasion in Anopheles mosquitoes

Gloria Volohonsky, Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux, Jitka Štáfková, Julien Soichot, Jean Salamero, Elena A. Levashina

The Chlamydia trachomatis secreted effector TmeA hijacks the N-WASP-ARP2/3 actin remodeling axis to facilitate cellular invasion

Robert Faris, Alix McCullough, Shelby E. Andersen, Thomas O. Moninger, Mary M. Weber

SARS-CoV-2 infection of African green monkeys results in mild respiratory disease discernible by PET/CT imaging and shedding of infectious virus from both respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts

Amy L. Hartman, Sham Nambulli, Cynthia M. McMillen, Alexander G. White, Natasha Louise Tilston-Lunel, Joseph R. Albe, Emily Cottle, Matthew D. Dunn, L. James Frye, Theron H. Gilliland, Emily L. Olsen, Katherine J. O’Malley, Madeline M. Schwarz, Jaime A. Tomko, Reagan C. Walker, Mengying Xia, Matthew S. Hartman, Edwin Klein, Charles A. Scanga, JoAnne L. Flynn, William B. Klimstra, Anita K. McElroy, Douglas S. Reed, W. Paul Duprex

A Plasmodium cysteine protease required for efficient transition from the liver infection stage

Elyzana Dewi Putrianti, Anja Schmidt-Christensen, Volker Heussler, Kai Matuschewski, Alyssa Ingmundson

NLRX1 is a key regulator of immune signaling during invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

Bridget Kastelberg, Nuria Tubau-Juni, Tariq Ayubi, Austin Leung, Andrew Leber, Raquel Hontecillas, Josep Bassaganya-Riera, Shiv D. Kale

Human parainfluenza virus fusion complex glycoproteins imaged in action on authentic viral surfaces

Tara C. Marcink, Tong Wang, Amedee des Georges, Matteo Porotto, Anne Moscona

The interplays between Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) M segment-encoded accessory proteins and structural proteins promote virus assembly and infectivity

Natalia Freitas, Margot Enguehard, Solène Denolly, Camille Levy, Gregory Neveu, Solène Lerolle, Stephanie Devignot, Friedemann Weber, Eric Bergeron, Vincent Legros, François-Loïc Cosset

The glucosyltransferase activity of C. difficile Toxin B is required for disease pathogenesis

Terry W. Bilverstone, Megan Garland, Rory J. Cave, Michelle L. Kelly, Martina Tholen, Donna M. Bouley, Philip Kaye, Nigel P. Minton, Matthew Bogyo, Sarah A. Kuehne, Roman A. Melnyk

COP9 signalosome is an essential and druggable parasite target that regulates protein degradation

Swagata Ghosh, Laura Farr, Aditya Singh, Laura-Ann Leaton, Jay Padalia, Debbie-Ann Shirley, David Sullivan, Shannon Moonah

RovC - a novel type of hexameric transcriptional activator promoting type VI secretion gene expression

Vanessa Knittel, Pooja Sadana, Stephanie Seekircher, Anne-Sophie Stolle, Britta Körner, Marcel Volk, Cy M. Jeffries, Dmitri I. Svergun, Ann Kathrin Heroven, Andrea Scrima, Petra Dersch

Comparative assessment of multiple COVID-19 serological technologies supports continued evaluation of point-of-care lateral flow assays in hospital and community healthcare settings

Suzanne Pickering, Gilberto Betancor, Rui Pedro Galão, Blair Merrick, Adrian W. Signell, Harry D. Wilson, Mark Tan Kia Ik, Jeffrey Seow, Carl Graham, Sam Acors, Neophytos Kouphou, Kathryn J. A. Steel, Oliver Hemmings, Amita Patel, Gaia Nebbia, Sam Douthwaite, Lorcan O’Connell, Jakub Luptak, Laura E. McCoy, Philip Brouwer, Marit J. van Gils, Rogier W. Sanders, Rocio Martinez Nunez, Karen Bisnauthsing, Geraldine O’Hara, Eithne MacMahon, Rahul Batra, Michael H. Malim, Stuart J. D. Neil, Katie J. Doores, Jonathan D. Edgeworth

The C. elegans GATA transcription factor elt-2 mediates distinct transcriptional responses and opposite infection outcomes towards different Bacillus thuringiensis strains

Alejandra Zárate-Potes, Wentao Yang, Barbara Pees, Rebecca Schalkowski, Philipp Segler, Bentje Andresen, Daniela Haase, Rania Nakad, Philip Rosenstiel, Guillaume Tetreau, Jacques-Philippe Colletier, Hinrich Schulenburg, Katja Dierking

Determination of a novel parvovirus pathogen associated with massive mortality in adult tilapia

Wenzhi Liu, Yecheng Zhang, Jie Ma, Nan Jiang, Yuding Fan, Yong Zhou, Kenneth Cain, Meisheng Yi, Kuntong Jia, Hua Wen, Wei Liu, Wuxiang Guan, Lingbing Zeng

CX3CL1 and IL-15 Promote CD8 T cell chemoattraction in HIV and in atherosclerosis

Soumya Panigrahi, Bonnie Chen, Mike Fang, Daria Potashnikova, Alexey A. Komissarov, Anna Lebedeva, Gillian M. Michaelson, Jonathan M. Wyrick, Stephen R. Morris, Scott F. Sieg, Mirko Paiardini, Francois J. Villinger, Karem Harth, Vikram S. Kashyap, Mark J. Cameron, Cheryl M. Cameron, Elena Vasilieva, Leonid Margolis, Souheil-Antoine Younes, Nicholas T. Funderburg, David A. Zidar, Michael M. Lederman, Michael L. Freeman

A bacterial effector protein prevents MAPK-mediated phosphorylation of SGT1 to suppress plant immunity

Gang Yu, Liu Xian, Hao Xue, Wenjia Yu, Jose S. Rufian, Yuying Sang, Rafael J. L. Morcillo, Yaru Wang, Alberto P. Macho

SAMHD1 phosphorylation and cytoplasmic relocalization after human cytomegalovirus infection limits its antiviral activity

Simone De Meo, Valentina Dell’Oste, Rosa Molfetta, Valentina Tassinari, Lavinia Vittoria Lotti, Simone Vespa, Benedetta Pignoloni, Daniela Angela Covino, Laura Fantuzzi, Roberta Bona, Alessandra Zingoni, Ilaria Nardone, Matteo Biolatti, Alessandra Coscia, Rossella Paolini, Monsef Benkirane, Fredrik Edfors, Tatyana Sandalova, Adnane Achour, John Hiscott, Santo Landolfo, Angela Santoni, Cristina Cerboni

Enteroaggregative E. coli Adherence to Human Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans Drives Segment and Host Specific Responses to Infection

Anubama Rajan, Matthew J. Robertson, Hannah E. Carter, Nina M. Poole, Justin R. Clark, Sabrina I. Green, Zachary K. Criss, Boyang Zhao, Umesh Karandikar, Yikun Xing, Mar Margalef-Català, Nikhil Jain, Reid L. Wilson, Fan Bai, Joseph M. Hyser, Joseph Petrosino, Noah F. Shroyer, Sarah E. Blutt, Cristian Coarfa, Xuezheng Song, BV Venkataram Prasad, Manuel R. Amieva, Jane Grande-Allen, Mary K. Estes, Pablo C. Okhuysen, Anthony W. Maresso

Symmetrical arrangement of positively charged residues around the 5-fold axes of SAT type foot-and-mouth disease virus enhances cell culture of field viruses

Melanie Chitray, Abhay Kotecha, Peninah Nsamba, Jingshan Ren, Sonja Maree, Tovhowani Ramulongo, Guntram Paul, Jacques Theron, Elizabeth E. Fry, David I. Stuart, Francois F. Maree

Eomes cannot replace its paralog T-bet during expansion and differentiation of CD8 effector T cells

Jonas Fixemer, Jonas F. Hummel, Frederic Arnold, Christoph S. N. Klose, Alexis Hofherr, Kristoffer Weissert, Tamara Kögl, Michael Köttgen, Sebastian J. Arnold, Peter Aichele, Yakup Tanriver

Transfer of HTLV-1 p8 and Gag to target T-cells depends on VASP, a novel interaction partner of p8

Norbert Donhauser, Eileen Socher, Sebastian Millen, Stefanie Heym, Heinrich Sticht, Andrea K. Thoma-Kress

Cryo-EM structures reveal two distinct conformational states in a picornavirus cell entry intermediate

Pranav N. M. Shah, David J. Filman, Krishanthi S. Karunatilaka, Emma L. Hesketh, Elisabetta Groppelli, Mike Strauss, James M. Hogle

Insertion and deletion evolution reflects antibiotics selection pressure in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak

Maxime Godfroid, Tal Dagan, Matthias Merker, Thomas A. Kohl, Roland Diel, Florian P. Maurer, Stefan Niemann, Anne Kupczok

Defining the proteolytic landscape during enterovirus infection

Mohsan Saeed, Sebastian Kapell, Nicholas T. Hertz, Xianfang Wu, Kierstin Bell, Alison W. Ashbrook, Milica Tesic Mark, Henry A. Zebroski, Maxwell L. Neal, Malin Flodström-Tullberg, Margaret R. MacDonald, John D. Aitchison, Henrik Molina, Charles M. Rice

C-type lectin-mediated microbial homeostasis is critical for Helicoverpa armigera larval growth and development

Wenwen Wang, Guijie Wang, Xiaorong Zhuo, Yu Liu, Lin Tang, Xusheng Liu, Jialin Wang

A pathogen branched-chain amino acid catabolic pathway subverts host survival by impairing energy metabolism and the mitochondrial UPR

Siraje Arif Mahmud, Mohammed Adnan Qureshi, Madhab Sapkota, Mark W. Pellegrino