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Switching Spike Plasticity Shapes ACE2 Engagement Across SARS‐CoV‐2 Variants

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Conformational plasticity governs SARS‐CoV‐2 spike function and ACE2 recognition. Using high‐speed AFM and single‐molecule force spectroscopy, we analyzed the ancestral spike and nine variants, revealing progressive rigidification from Delta, variable plasticity in Omicron sublineages, and JN.1 compaction.
Sarah Stainer, Rong Zhu, Manuel Reithofer, Gerhard Stadlmayr, Katharina Stadlbauer, Panchika Prangkio, Christoph Rippel, Markus Hahn, Aniko Eva Kasztner, Stefanie Stohl, Petr Bednar, Daniel Ruzek, David Glück, Robert Tampé, Gordana Wozniak‐Knopp, Yoo Jin Oh, Miriam Klausberger, Peter Hinterdorfer   +17 more
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Targeting β2‐Adrenergic Receptor Stability With Lycorine Reveals a Host‐Directed Pathway for Antiviral Defense Against Poxviruses

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Chronic stress drives autophagy‐mediated β2‐AR degradation, impairing antiviral immunity and promoting poxvirus lethality. Lycorine directly stabilizes β2‐AR to restore host defense, suppress excessive inflammation and improve survival. ABSTRACT Psychological stress is a pervasive yet poorly understood modulator of infectious disease outcomes. Here, we
Xin Zhang, Shuqin Xu, Zixuan Zhang, Chenwen Wan, Xiaoqin Wang, Peihua Wang, Huini Yang, Tianxiao Huang, Yijia Yuan, Faiza Atique, Rui Yang, Yingli He, Zhijun Liu   +12 more
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One‐Step Immobilized Phage Depolymerase Coatings for Catheter‐Related Bloodstream Infections

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Catheter‐related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) caused by drug‐resistant Gram‐negative bacteria remain a major clinical challenge. Here, a polydopamine‐assisted depolymerase coating degrades bacterial capsules and restores serum‐mediated killing, effectively suppressing biofilms and reducing bacterial burden in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo, presenting a
Lingkai Dong, Xingjin Li, Tao Hu, Qianqian Lu, Xiaoxu Zhang, Xi Chen, Yifan Luo, Zhong Zuo, Ronald Man Yeung Wong, Miao Xu, Tiancong Zhao, Sharon Shui Yee Leung   +11 more
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Structural and Functional Siderophore Remodeling by Enzymatic Delipidation

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
A surprising functional switch in bacterial siderophores was discovered through genome mining and the analysis of environmental and pathogenic Pandoraea species. Pandorachelin B, a lipocyclopeptide that promotes swarming motility, is cleaved by a specialized acylase, yielding a ring‐contracted, homodetic cyclopeptide, pandorachelin A, which exhibits ...
Elena Herzog, Keishi Ishida, Evelyn M. Molloy, Ron Hermenau, Kirstin Scherlach, Christian Hertweck   +5 more
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An Effector TaCRVP From Tuta Absoluta Oral Secretion Impairs H2O2‐Mediated Plant Defense by Targeting Tomato SlCAT2

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The Tuta absoluta salivary effector TaCRVP subverts tomato immunity by hijacking host catalase SlCAT2. Through a sophisticated dual mechanism, TaCRVP simultaneously promotes SlCAT2 tetramerization for activation and blocks its SlAdBiL‐mediated degradation for stabilization.
Jianquan Yan, Youdan Zhang, Zhujun Wang, Huatao Tang, Huiping Liu, Zi Chen, Shuai Liu, Jiayi Shi, Lu Peng, Youming Hou   +9 more
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Prophage Activation Triggers Extracellular Synthesis of DNA in Bacterial Biofilms via Rolling Circle Replication

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Shewanella oneidensis and Bacillus subtilis, both harboring prophages, reveal a novel biosynthetic route to scalable and programmable DNA superstructures in flower‐ and wire‐like shapes, respectively. Activation of prophages is achieved via 3‐hour starvation and monitored using reporter strains.
Gabriel Antonio S. Minero, Line Mørkholt Lund, Lasse Hyldgaard Klausen, Obinna Markraphael Ajunwa, Mingdong Dong, Rikke Louise Meyer, Victoria Birkedal, Kai Thormann   +7 more
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Repurposing FDA‐Approved Drugs to Inhibit Fungal PPTases for Broad‐Spectrum Synergy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Fungal secondary metabolites serve as crucial virulence effectors; however, the potential of their biosynthetic pathways as antifungal targets remains inadequately comprehended. Repurposed FDA‐approved drugs inhibit fungal PPTase (essential for secondary metabolism) in vivo.
Zili Song, Can Zhao, Qiaoling Wang, Hongjiao Zhang, Xiao Liu, Linqi Wang, Michael Bromley, Wen‐Bing Yin   +7 more
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Structure and Function of a Multi‐Megadalton Virus‐Like Proteolytic Dodecahedron

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Zuzalysin, a virulence metallopeptidase of the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis, is secreted as a latent, flexible ≈95‐kDa monomer. Calcium triggers cysteine‐switch activation and hierarchical assembly into pentamers, bipentamers, tripentamers, and a ≈5.6‐MDa, ≈355‐Å dodecahedron. Structures at 1.8–3.6 Å reveal a virus‐sized catalytic cage
Mariusz Madej, Arturo Rodríguez‐Banqueri, Danuta Mizgalska, Borys Szmigielski, Zuzanna Nowakowska, Małgorzata Benedyk‐Machaczka, Monika Bzowska, Katarzyna Mikruta, Juan Sebastián Ramírez‐Larrota, Chinanu Agunanne, Olivier Julien, Anthony J. O'Donoghue, Carsten Scavenius, Mario López‐Martín, Enrique Marcos, Łukasz Koziej, Sebastian Glatt, Pablo Guerra, Ulrich Eckhard, Jan Potempa, F. Xavier Gomis‐Rüth   +20 more
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Virulence Factors of Bordetella pertussis.

Nippon Saikingaku Zasshi, 1996
百日咳はワクチン接種の普及により日本では過去の病気となりつつあるが, 予防接種の行き渡らない国々では今なお猛威を奮っている小児の呼吸器伝染病で, 病因的にはジフテリアと同様, 毒素性疾患として理解し得る。最近では伝染源としての成人感染者が問題視され始めたが, 呼吸器感染症の常として根絶は殆ど不可能であり, 感染の予防, 治療に関する研究成果のみが百日咳の制圧を可能にする途である。本小文では, 百日咳菌の産生する病原因子のうち, 感染の第一段階である宿主細胞への菌の吸着に関与する接着因子 (繊維状赤血球凝集素, 線毛, パータクチン) および百日咳症の発現に関与する毒素類 (百日咳毒素, アデニレートシクラーゼ毒素, 気管上皮細胞毒素, 皮膚壊死毒素, 内毒素) の産生, 性状 ...
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Reversing Macrophage Immunometabolic Dysfunction in Prolonged Infections Via a Glutaminolysis‐Fueled Restoration‐Based Hierarchically Selective Therapeutic System

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A hierarchically selective immunotherapeutic nanoplatform, mGls@HEV‐MTP, selectively restores macrophage immunocompetence through GLS1‐mediated restoration of glutaminolysis‐fueled anaplerosis. Concurrently, it renders Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) more readily recognizable to the metabolically reprogrammed macrophages, thereby facilitating ...
Weinan Yang, Zihao An, Honglu Cai, Congsun Li, Jiaxuan Zou, Wushi Cui, Wentao Chen, Tao Zhang, Shicheng Wang, Zizhan Su, Jian Xiao, Tao Sun, Bin Hu, Min Cheng, Zhongru Gou, Jianbin Xu, An Liu, Haobo Wu   +17 more
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