Current Opinion in Microbiology

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	111
Editorial Board	108
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	106
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	94
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	87
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	73
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	68
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	68
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	65
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	65
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	65
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	64
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	64
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	63
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	62
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	61
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	59
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	58
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	58
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	57
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	57
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	57
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	54
Editorial Board	53
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	53

Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	52
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	51
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	51
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	50
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	50
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	48
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	47
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	46
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	46
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	46
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	46
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	45
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	45
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	45
Editorial overview: Bacterial microcompartments to the fore as metabolism is put in its place	44
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	44
Editorial Board	44
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	44
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	44
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	43
Structure-based design of novel polyhedral protein nanomaterials	42
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	42
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	42
Pain killers: the interplay between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and Clostridioides difficile infection	41
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	40
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	40
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	40
Differences and similarities between innate immune evasion strategies of human coronaviruses	39
The human vaginal microbiota: from clinical medicine to models to mechanisms	39
Protein stoichiometry, structural plasticity and regulation of bacterial microcompartments	38
Bacteriophage communities are a reservoir of unexplored microbial diversity in neonatal health and disease	37
Ready, STAT3, Go! Bacteria in the race for M2 macrophage polarisation	36
The power of the small: the underestimated role of small proteins in bacterial and archaeal physiology	36
Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions	35
Dissecting skin microbiota and microenvironment for the development of therapeutic strategies	35
What’s for dinner? How Citrobacter rodentium’s metabolism helps it thrive in the competitive gut	35
The longitudinal and cross-sectional heterogeneity of the intestinal microbiota	35
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	34
Regulation of para-cresol production in Clostridioides difficile	33
Environmental adaptation and diversification of bacterial two-component systems	33
Editorial Board	33
Editorial overview: Turtles all the way down: Bacterial cell regulation across scales	33
The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages	32
Second messenger signaling in Clostridioides difficile	32
Antibiotic tolerance: targeting bacterial survival	32
Editorial overview: There and back again: a phage’s tale	32
Cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2s and parasite development: the Toxoplasma paradigm	31
Cell–cell communication through septal junctions in filamentous cyanobacteria	31
Phage transmission strategies: are phages farming their host?	31
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	30

Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	30
Host-pathogen interactions: lessons from phagocytic predation on fungi	29
Introducing noncanonical amino acids for studying and engineering bacterial microcompartments	29
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	29
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	28
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	28
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	28
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	28
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	27
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	27
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	27
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	27
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	26
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	26
Editorial overview: Return of the phages — a new golden era of molecular discovery and synthetic biology	26
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	26
Gram-positive pathogens, inflammation, and the host lipid environment	26
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance	25
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	25
Clostridioides difficile peptidoglycan modifications	25
Ethanolamine bacterial microcompartments: from structure, function studies to bioengineering applications	25
Batrachochytrium fungi: stealth invaders in amphibian skin	25
Evolutionary ecology theory — microbial population structure	24
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	24
Activation of the extracytoplasmic function σ factor σV by lysozyme in Clostridioides difficile	24
Temporospatial control of topoisomerases by essential cellular processes	24
Surface-displayed glycopolymers of Clostridioides difficile	23
Integrated control of surface adaptation by the bacterial flagellum	23
The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics	23
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	23
Editorial overview: Microbial cell regulation across multiple scales	23
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	23
Editorial Board	23
Horizontal gene transfer and beyond: the delivery of biological matter by bacterial membrane vesicles to host and bacterial cells	22
Plasmids of Clostridioides difficile	22
The ribosome as a small-molecule sensor	22
Cooperative defenses during enteropathogenic infection	22
The immune response to airway mycosis	22
Prokaryote pangenomes are dynamic entities	22
Evolutionary relationships among shell proteins of carboxysomes and metabolosomes	21
Editorial overview: current state and future of the microbiome field: why context matters	21
Immune-metabolic interactions between Leishmania and macrophage host	21
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	21
Molecular mechanisms of cellular quiescence in apicomplexan parasites	21
Host-directed therapies for malaria: possible applications and lessons from other indications	21
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	21
The promise of copper ionophores as antimicrobials	20
Editorial overview: Niche-specific and species-specific host-fungal interactions — how do they impact human health?	20
Natural products that target the cell envelope	20
Interplay of emerging and established technologies drives innovation in natural product antibiotic discovery	20
Metabolic flexibility in Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes: implications for persistence and drug sensitivity	20
The multifaceted roles of Myb domain–containing proteins in apicomplexan parasites	20
Diversity of bacterial chemosensory systems	20
Role of pollution on the selection of antibiotic resistance and bacterial pathogens in the environment	19
Microbiomes for sustainable biomanufacturing	19
Towards a deeper understanding of microbial communities: integrating experimental data with dynamic models	19
Phage defense origin of animal immunity	19
Engineering genetic circuits: advancements in genetic design automation tools and standards for synthetic biology	19
Flagellotropic phages: common yet diverse host interaction strategies	19
Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces	18
Recent advances in applying cell-free systems for high-value and complex natural product biosynthesis	18
Erratum to “Harnessing the gut microbiome in the fight against anthelminthic drug resistance” [Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 53 (February) (2020) 26–34]	18
Aeromonas: the multifaceted middleman in the One Health world	18
Cell wall synthesizing complexes in Mycobacteriales	18
Innate immune response to Candida auris	18
Drugging the microbiome: targeting small microbiome molecules	18
Accessing nutrients as the primary benefit arising from chemotaxis	18
Dissecting S-itaconation at host–pathogen interactions with chemical proteomics tools	18
The spatial organization of microbial communities during range expansion	18
Colonization resistance: metabolic warfare as a strategy against pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae	17
Targeting Helicobacter pylori for antibacterial drug discovery with novel therapeutics	17
Hierarchical and simultaneous utilization of carbon substrates: mechanistic insights, physiological roles, and ecological consequences	17
Putting microbial interactions back into community contexts	17
Present and future outlooks on environmental DNA-based methods for antibiotic discovery	17
Listeriosis, a model infection to study host-pathogen interactions in vivo	17
How pathogens drive adipose tissue loss in the host	17
More than propellers: how flagella shape bacterial motility behaviors	17
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: an antibiotic resilient pathogen with environmental origin	16
Addressing antibiotic resistance: computational answers to a biological problem?	16
Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens during persistent infection of humans	16

Posttranslational modifications in bacteria during phage infection	16
Yeast synthetic biology advances biofuel production	16
Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways	15
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	15
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	15
Capers with caspases: Toxoplasma gondii tales of inflammation and survival	15
Clostridioides difficile spore germination: initiation to DPA release	15
Climate change and plant pathogens	15
Homeostasis of the Gram-negative cell envelope	15
Making sense of drug-efflux transporters in the physiological environment	15
Cardiac damage and tropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	15
Hybrids unleashed: exploring the emergence and genomic insights of pathogenic yeast hybrids	15
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	14
Histone code: a common language and multiple dialects to meet the different developmental requirements of apicomplexan parasites	14
Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment	14
It's complicated: relationships between integrative and conjugative elements and their bacterial hosts	14
Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria	13
Symbioses between fungi and bacteria: from mechanisms to impacts on biodiversity	13
Editorial Board	13
Dividing lines: compartmentalisation and division in Streptomyces	13
Inflammasome activation by Salmonella	13
The yin and yang of the universal transcription factor NusG	13
From a parts list to assembly instructions and an operating manual: how small host models can re-write microbiome theory	13
Interactions of Vibrio phages and their hosts in aquatic environments	13
Advances in constraint-based models: methods for improved predictive power based on resource allocation constraints	13
Use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approaches for dose optimization: a case study of plazomicin	13
Synthesizing microbial biodiversity	13
Editorial Board	12
What’s metal got to do with it? Transition metals in Clostridioides difficile infection	12
Recent insights into type-3 secretion system injectisome structure and mechanism of human enteric pathogens	12
Dirammox (direct ammonia oxidation) to nitrogen (N2): discovery, current status, and perspectives	12
From dusty shelves toward the spotlight: growing evidence for Ap4A as an alarmone in maintaining RNA stability and proteostasis	12
Microbial assimilation of lignin-derived aromatic compounds and conversion to value-added products	12
Antibacterial particles and predatory bacteria as alternatives to antibacterial chemicals in the era of antibiotic resistance	12
Contributions of diverse models of the female reproductive tract to the study of Chlamydia trachomatis-host interactions	12
Immune evasion runs in the family: two surface protein families of Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes	11
New discoveries expand possibilities for carboxysome engineering	11
Pathogen adaptation to lung metabolites	11
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as a model vector-borne pathogen: insights on regulation of gene and protein expression	11
Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture: using synthetic biology to enhance nitrogen metabolism in plant-associated microbes	11
CTP switches in ParABS-mediated bacterial chromosome segregation and beyond	11
Editorial Board	11
Interkingdom interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans affect clinical outcomes and antimicrobial responses	11
Transcriptional and metabolic regulation of EHEC and Citrobacter rodentium pathogenesis	11
Time to switch gears: how long noncoding RNAs function as epigenetic regulators in Apicomplexan parasites	10
Antibiotic persistence and tolerance: not just one and the same	10
Mechanisms and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Clostridioides difficile	10
Editorial overview: AMR in the environment — too complex for surveillance?	10
Clostridioides difficile – phage relationship the RNA way	10
Innate immune responses and monocyte-derived phagocyte recruitment in protective immunity to pathogenic bacteria: insights from Legionella pneumophila	10
Targeting a highly conserved domain in bacterial histidine kinases to generate inhibitors with broad spectrum activity	10
Toxin–antitoxin systems as mediators of phage defence and the implications for abortive infection	10
Genome reconstructions of metabolism of Plasmodium RBC and liver stages	10
Artificial selection of microbial communities: what have we learnt and how can we improve?	10
Human milk oligosaccharides and the infant gut microbiome from an eco-evolutionary perspective	10
Human and mouse NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasome responses to bacterial infection	10
Arginine sensing in intracellular parasitism of Leishmania	10
Pathogenic Aspergillus and Fusarium as important causes of blinding corneal infections — the role of neutrophils in fungal killing, tissue damage and cytokine production	10
Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota	9
Bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate in polluted soils by plant-associated microbes	9
Multi-layered genome defences in bacteria	9
Microbial communities and their enzymes facilitate degradation of recalcitrant polymers in anaerobic digestion	9
Selective drivers of simple multicellularity	9
Co-ordinated assembly of the multilayered cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria	9
Sensing and responding to host-derived stress signals: lessons from fungal meningitis pathogen	9
Evolution and synthetic biology	9
Are microbes colimited by multiple resources?	9
Human microbiome variance is underestimated	9
The mystery of persistent, asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections	9
Glycan processing in gut microbiomes	9
Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domains in bacterial and plant immunity	9
Editorial Board	8
Long-chain fatty acids as nutrients for Gram-negative bacteria: stress, proliferation, and virulence	8
The multifaceted lifestyle of enterococci: genetic diversity, ecology and risks for public health	8
A cell–cell atlas approach for understanding symbiotic interactions between microbes	8
When bacteria are phage playgrounds: interactions between viruses, cells, and mobile genetic elements	8
Regulation of Citrobacter rodentium colonization: virulence, immune response and microbiota interactions	8
Alginate catabolic systems in marine bacteria	8
Human intestinal organoids as models to study enteric bacteria and viruses	8
Editorial overview: “All in all, it is not just another brick in the wall”: new concepts and mechanisms on how bacteria build their wall	8
Control engineering and synthetic biology: working in synergy for the analysis and control of microbial systems	8
From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation in microbiology	8
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	8
Hungry for control: metabolite signaling to chromatin in Plasmodium falciparum	8
The microbial and host factors that govern Candida gastrointestinal colonization and dissemination	8
Lessons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes	8
The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches	8
Nutritional control of bacterial DNA replication	8
Forgotten fungi: the importance of the skin mycobiome	8
Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution	8
The upcycled roles of pseudoenzymes in two-component signal transduction	8
Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis	8
Editorial overview: Gene regulation mechanisms governing Clostridioides difficile physiology and virulence	8
Type III secretion system effector subnetworks elicit distinct host immune responses to infection	8
Editorial overview: Two to tango: The intricate communications between host and bacteria	8