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Characterizing living ocular bacterial communities and the effects of antibiotic perturbation in house finches

MicrobiologyOpen
DNA‐based methods to measure the abundance and relative abundance of bacterial taxa can be skewed by the presence of dead or transient bacteria. Consequently, the active, functional members of the community may be a small subset of the detected bacterial
Chava L. Weitzman, Dana M. Hawley, Bahman Rostama, Meghan May, Lisa K. Belden   +4 more
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RNA-seq reproducibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in laboratory models of cystic fibrosis

Microbiology Spectrum
Reproducibility is a fundamental expectation in science and enables investigators to have confidence in their research findings and the ability to compare data from disparate sources, but evaluating reproducibility can be elusive. For example, generating
Rebecca P. Duncan, Gina R. Lewin, Daniel M. Cornforth, Frances L. Diggle, Ananya Kapur, Dina A. Moustafa, Yasmin Hilliam, Jennifer M. Bomberger, Marvin Whiteley, Joanna B. Goldberg   +9 more
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High Humidity Exacerbates Psoriasiform Skin Disease Relapse by Increasing Tissue‐Resident Memory T Cells via Altering Skin Microbiota

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We demonstrated that high humidity worsened psoriasis relapse in murine psoriasiform skin inflammation by increasing skin‐resident memory CD8+ cells via upregulating IL‐15Rα on keratinocytes. The increases in IL‐15Rα and memory CD8+ cells were attributed to S. nepalensis and its metabolite ADMA in skin exposed to high humidity.
Chun‐Ling Liang, Yuchao Chen, Chuanjian Lu, Huazhen Liu, Fenglian Qin, Sisi Dai, Feifei Qiu, Haiming Chen, Weihui Lu, Jonathan S. Bromberg, Zhenhua Dai   +10 more
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DRD2 Deficiency Underlies Pituitary Adenoma Dependent on Escherichia coli Translocation from the Gut

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) deficiency disrupts epithelial barrier integrity in both the gut and pituitary gland, facilitating translocation of gut‐derived Escherichia coli into pituitary tissue. Intratumoral E. coli are phagocytosed by microglia, triggering GSDMD‐dependent pyroptosis and HMGB1 release, which subsequently activates MAPK signaling to ...
Xian‐jun Su, Li Ma, Xi Xiong, Jun‐hua Meng, Qi Wu, Yu Zhang, Shu‐guang Dong, Yue‐fei Wang, Jin‐hu Wu, Qing‐yuan Zeng, Hong‐feng Zhang, Li‐li Li, Liang Meng, Min Peng, Xiao‐dong Huang, Li‐quan Wu, Xiong Wang   +16 more
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Tailoring Vascular‐Immune Homeostasis via Manganese‐DNA Complex‐Armed Immunogenic Extracellular Vesicles for Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates that Mn2⁺–tumor DNA complexes encapsulated in dendritic cell (DC)– derived immunogenic extracellular vesicles (EVDC@Mn‐DNA) act as a DC‐specific cGAS– STING activator. EVDC@Mn‐DNA treatment enhances intratumoral DC activation, improves tumor vascular function, promotes CD8⁺ T cell activity, and suppresses pancreatic tumor growth,
Xue Jiang, Lihuan Shang, Xiaochun Chen, Xiangzhan Kong, Xiaojuan Wang, Linjia Jiang, Huiying Zhao, Yafeng Zhu, Cheng Huang, Shiyi Deng, Rui Zhang, Minghui Wang, Haoming Lin, Ping‐Pui Wong   +13 more
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Diagnostic value of DNA or RNA-based metagenomic next-generation sequencing in lower respiratory tract infections

Heliyon
Objectives: We aimed to evaluate and compare the diagnostic performance of RNA-mNGS and DNA-mNGS workflow in bacterial pneumonia, fungal pneumonia and tuberculosis.
Jiafu Song, Suxia Liu, Yongpeng Xie, Chen Zhang, Caiyun Xu   +4 more
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Engineered Living Systems With Self‐Organizing Neural Networks: From Anatomy to Behavior and Gene Expression

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Ectodermal tissue excised from Xenopus embryos self‐organizes into a three‐dimensional mucociliary organoid. Here, we generate a neural variant, termed neurobot, by implanting neural precursor cells. Neurobots develop mature neurons, adopt distinct morphologies, exhibit more complex motility, and respond differentially to neuroactive compounds. Imaging
Haleh Fotowat, Laurie O'Neill, Léo Pio‐Lopez, Megan M. Sperry, Patrick Erickson, Tiffany Lin, Michael Levin   +6 more
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A Bifunctional T3SS‐Effector Simultaneously Cleaves Host MAP Kinase and Inhibits PPM1A Phosphatase

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Pathogenic bacteria exploit the metalloprotease effector NleD to subvert host defenses. Structural, biochemical, and infection analyses reveal a bifunctional mechanism by which NleD binds and inhibits the host phosphatase PPM1A while preserving its proteolytic activity against MAPKs.
Yaakov Socol, Lihi Gur‐Arie, Netanel Tzarum, Tamara Wellins, Naama Katsowich, Miriam Ravins, Michal Bejerano‐Sagie, Klil Cohen, Oded Livnah, Joshua N. Adkins, Ernesto Nakayasu, Alexei Savchenko, Yeu Khai Choong, Nikhil Kumar Tulsian, Saturo Machida, Sigal Ben‐Yehuda, Yael Litvak, J. Sivaraman, Ilan Rosenshine   +18 more
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Unveiling the orchestration: mycobacterial small RNAs as key mediators in host-pathogen interactions

Frontiers in Microbiology
Small RNA (sRNA) molecules, a class of non-coding RNAs, have emerged as pivotal players in the regulation of gene expression and cellular processes.
Rajni Garg, Ishali Manhas, Diksha Chaturvedi   +2 more
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RNF213 Is an Interferon‐Stimulated Gene That Targets Influenza A Virus NP and Activates MDA5 to Restrict Infection

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
RNF213 is characterized as a dual‐functional antiviral effector. It directly mediates the degradation of the influenza A virus nucleoprotein (NP) while simultaneously activating the MDA5‐mediated innate immune signaling pathway. This coordinated response establishes a powerful host defense system against viral infection. ABSTRACT Influenza A virus (IAV)
Haoning Li, Yuying Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Qianqian Zhang, Hailiang Sun, Fanhua Wei   +5 more
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