Sanhita Chakraborty,Maya Venkataraman,Valentina Infante et al.
Sanhita Chakraborty et al.
Diazotrophs are bacteria and archaea that can reduce atmospheric dinitrogen (N2) into ammonium. Plant-diazotroph interactions have been explored for over a century as a nitrogen (N) source for crops to improve agricultural productivity and ...
Yezhou Hu,Xiu-Fang Xin
Yezhou Hu
Phytopathogenic microbes obtain nutrients from host plants to support their growth and metabolism. A recent study by Zhu et al. revealed that the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora sojae upregulates the activity of soybean trehalose 6-phosphate...
Neus Garcias-Bonet,Anna Roik,Braden Tierney et al.
Neus Garcias-Bonet et al.
The provision of probiotics benefits the health of a wide range of organisms, from humans to animals and plants. Probiotics can enhance stress resilience of endangered organisms, many of which are critically threatened by anthropogenic impa...
Yebo Gu,Xin-Ming Jia
Yebo Gu
During viral infections, stimulator of interferon genes (STING) exerts a positive protective immune response. Chen et al. now shed light on the distinct role of STING in fungal infections. STING translocates to the phagosome to negatively r...
Gustavo Santiago-Collazo,Pamela J B Brown,Amelia M Randich
Gustavo Santiago-Collazo
The bacterial divisome is a complex nanomachine that drives cell division and separation. The essentiality of these processes leads to the assumption that proteins with core roles will be strictly conserved across all bacterial genomes. How...
Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle [0.03%]
与Prochlorococcus的生物互动：对海洋碳循环的影响
Lanlan Cai,Haofu Li,Junwei Deng et al.
Lanlan Cai et al.
The unicellular picocyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photoautotroph and contributes substantially to global CO2 fixation. In the vast euphotic zones of the open ocean, Prochlorococcus converts CO2 into organic compounds a...
Debarati Mondal,Jitendra K Thakur
Debarati Mondal
Candida albicans, a significant commensal fungus in the human gut, causes a wide spectrum of opportunistic infections. In a recent study, Yang et al. revealed the importance of a host-associated gut signal, GlcNAc, in C. albicans and descri...
Nathan J Day,Pierre Santucci,Maximiliano G Gutierrez
Nathan J Day
The aetiologic agent of tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), can survive, persist, and proliferate in a variety of heterogeneous subcellular compartments. Therefore, TB chemotherapy requires antibiotics crossing multiple bio...
Poonam Dhindwal,Iryna Myziuk,Antonio Ruzzini
Poonam Dhindwal
Antibiotics often contain ester bonds. The macrocyclic lactones of macrolides are pre-eminent examples in which ester bonds are essential to the form and function of antibiotics. Bacterial macrolide esterases that hydrolyze these macrocycli...
Phosphorus/nitrogen sensing and signaling in diverse root-fungus symbioses [0.03%]
不同菌根共生体中的磷/氮感知和信号转导
Yuwei Zhang,Huan Feng,Irina S Druzhinina et al.
Yuwei Zhang et al.
Establishing mutualistic relationships between plants and fungi is crucial for overcoming nutrient deficiencies in plants. This review highlights the intricate nutrient sensing and uptake mechanisms used by plants in response to phosphate a...