Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 15 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01056-8This study shows how two umbravirus-like viruses induce systemic infection in the plant host in the absence of virus-encoded movement proteins.
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01045-xIn this Review, Sugrue, Ross and Hill explore recent developments in bacteriocin research, including new discoveries and bioengineering approache…
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01055-9In this study, Zhang et al. report that a bacterial symbiont residing in the gut of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes protects them from flavivirus inf…
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 30 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01041-1In this Review, Shepherd, Brockhurst and colleagues explore the clinical evidence in support of four major ecological and evolutionary mechanis…
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 24 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01049-7In this Journal Club, Ricardo Soto-Rifo discusses a study on intron-containing HIV-1 RNA, revealing its role as a pathogen-associated molecular…
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 24 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01053-xA recent study reports the existence of a nitrogen-fixing organelle called the ‘nitroplast’.
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 24 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01052-yIn this study, Carrasco Flores et al. report that the bacterium Mycetocola lacteus protects the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii from the an…
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 22 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01050-0This study shows that a single-stranded RNA phage binds to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type IV pilus, leading to phage entry into the cell and t…
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 18 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01047-9In this study, Granton et al. show that biofilm-associated exopolysaccharides produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa control sickness during lung i…
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41579-024-01036-yIn this Review, Chan et al. explore major drug discovery approaches, preclinical antiviral evaluation models, virus-targeting and host-targetin…