Current Opinion in Microbiology

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	163
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	132
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	106
The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities	98
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	90
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	90
Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities	90
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	89
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	88
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	85
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	81
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	74
Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly	69
Editorial Board	68
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	68
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	66
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	65
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	64
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	64
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	62
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	60
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	59
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	58
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	57
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	56

Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	56
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	56
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	55
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	53
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	53
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	53
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	52
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	52
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	50
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	49
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	49
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	48
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	46
Editorial Board	45
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	45
Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms	44
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	41
Decoding the epigenetic blueprint behind Toxoplasma (pre)sexual commitment and chronic persistence	40
Trace gas oxidation as a novel microbial dispersal trait	40
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	40
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	40
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	39
Pain killers: the interplay between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and Clostridioides difficile infection	39
The human vaginal microbiota: from clinical medicine to models to mechanisms	38
Differences and similarities between innate immune evasion strategies of human coronaviruses	37
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	37
The power of the small: the underestimated role of small proteins in bacterial and archaeal physiology	37
Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions	36
Editorial overview: Antibiotic discovery: Feeding the pipeline or finding new pipes?	36
Cell cycle regulation in Escherichia coli: from governing principles, checkpoints, and control variables to molecular mechanisms	36
Dissecting skin microbiota and microenvironment for the development of therapeutic strategies	35
Editorial Board	34
Environmental adaptation and diversification of bacterial two-component systems	34
Editorial overview: There and back again: a phage’s tale	34
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	34
Regulation of para-cresol production in Clostridioides difficile	33
Editorial overview: Turtles all the way down: Bacterial cell regulation across scales	33
Phage transmission strategies: are phages farming their host?	32
Second messenger signaling in Clostridioides difficile	31
Cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2s and parasite development: the Toxoplasma paradigm	31
A tale of two nitrous oxide reductases: a cautionary perspective	31
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	30
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	29
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	29
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	29
The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages	29
Antibiotic tolerance: targeting bacterial survival	29
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	29
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	28

Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	28
Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	27
Investigating bacterial evolution in nature with metagenomics	27
The importance of persistence and dormancy in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease	26
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	26
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	26
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	26
Clostridioides difficile peptidoglycan modifications	25
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	25
Activation of the extracytoplasmic function σ factor σV by lysozyme in Clostridioides difficile	25
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	25
Surface-displayed glycopolymers of Clostridioides difficile	25
Temporospatial control of topoisomerases by essential cellular processes	24
Gram-positive pathogens, inflammation, and the host lipid environment	24
Editorial overview: Return of the phages — a new golden era of molecular discovery and synthetic biology	24
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	24
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	23
Cooperative defenses during enteropathogenic infection	23
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance	23
Plasmids of Clostridioides difficile	23
The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics	23
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	23
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	23
The ribosome as a small-molecule sensor	23
Prokaryote pangenomes are dynamic entities	22
Diversity and evolution of alphaproteobacterial dimorphism	22
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	22
Horizontal gene transfer and beyond: the delivery of biological matter by bacterial membrane vesicles to host and bacterial cells	22
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	21
Engineering genetic circuits: advancements in genetic design automation tools and standards for synthetic biology	21
Brownian ratchet mechanisms for carboxysome positioning in bacteria	21
Editorial overview: current state and future of the microbiome field: why context matters	21
Innate immune response to Candida auris	21
Host-directed therapies for malaria: possible applications and lessons from other indications	21
Molecular mechanisms of cellular quiescence in apicomplexan parasites	21
Phage defense origin of animal immunity	21
The multifaceted roles of Myb domain–containing proteins in apicomplexan parasites	20
The promise of copper ionophores as antimicrobials	20
Flagellotropic phages: common yet diverse host interaction strategies	20
Encapsulins: catalysis inside a shell	20
Microbiomes for sustainable biomanufacturing	20
Microbial biomolecular condensates: from conserved principles to synthetic biology opportunities	19
Dissecting S-itaconation at host–pathogen interactions with chemical proteomics tools	19
Interplay of emerging and established technologies drives innovation in natural product antibiotic discovery	19
Drugging the microbiome: targeting small microbiome molecules	18
Listeriosis, a model infection to study host-pathogen interactions in vivo	18
Accessing nutrients as the primary benefit arising from chemotaxis	18
Immunometabolism shapes chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection: insights from biofilm infection models	18
Aeromonas: the multifaceted middleman in the One Health world	18
Cell wall synthesizing complexes in Mycobacteriales	18
Targeting Helicobacter pylori for antibacterial drug discovery with novel therapeutics	18
Putting microbial interactions back into community contexts	18
Posttranslational modifications in bacteria during phage infection	17
Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces	17
Present and future outlooks on environmental DNA-based methods for antibiotic discovery	17
Recent advances in applying cell-free systems for high-value and complex natural product biosynthesis	17
Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens during persistent infection of humans	17
How pathogens drive adipose tissue loss in the host	17
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	16
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	16
Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment	16
Addressing antibiotic resistance: computational answers to a biological problem?	16
Cardiac damage and tropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	16
Clostridioides difficile spore germination: initiation to DPA release	16
Capers with caspases: Toxoplasma gondii tales of inflammation and survival	16
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	16
Hybrids unleashed: exploring the emergence and genomic insights of pathogenic yeast hybrids	16
Yeast synthetic biology advances biofuel production	16
Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways	16
Making sense of drug-efflux transporters in the physiological environment	15
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	15
Physiology of atmospheric methane-oxidizing bacteria	15
Editorial Board	14
It's complicated: relationships between integrative and conjugative elements and their bacterial hosts	14
Histone code: a common language and multiple dialects to meet the different developmental requirements of apicomplexan parasites	14
Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria	14
Use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approaches for dose optimization: a case study of plazomicin	14
The yin and yang of the universal transcription factor NusG	14

Synthesizing microbial biodiversity	14
Climate change and plant pathogens	14
Dividing lines: compartmentalisation and division in Streptomyces	14
Advances in constraint-based models: methods for improved predictive power based on resource allocation constraints	14
Taming wild replicons: evolution and domestication of large extrachromosomal replicons	14
Recent insights into type-3 secretion system injectisome structure and mechanism of human enteric pathogens	13
Microbial assimilation of lignin-derived aromatic compounds and conversion to value-added products	13
Dirammox (direct ammonia oxidation) to nitrogen (N2): discovery, current status, and perspectives	13
Interkingdom interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans affect clinical outcomes and antimicrobial responses	13
Symbioses between fungi and bacteria: from mechanisms to impacts on biodiversity	13
What’s metal got to do with it? Transition metals in Clostridioides difficile infection	13
Contributions of diverse models of the female reproductive tract to the study of Chlamydia trachomatis-host interactions	13
From dusty shelves toward the spotlight: growing evidence for Ap4A as an alarmone in maintaining RNA stability and proteostasis	13
Editorial Board	13
Interactions of Vibrio phages and their hosts in aquatic environments	13
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as a model vector-borne pathogen: insights on regulation of gene and protein expression	13
Toxin–antitoxin systems as mediators of phage defence and the implications for abortive infection	12
Artificial selection of microbial communities: what have we learnt and how can we improve?	12
Human and mouse NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasome responses to bacterial infection	12
Time to switch gears: how long noncoding RNAs function as epigenetic regulators in Apicomplexan parasites	12
Innate immune responses and monocyte-derived phagocyte recruitment in protective immunity to pathogenic bacteria: insights from Legionella pneumophila	12
CTP switches in ParABS-mediated bacterial chromosome segregation and beyond	12
Pathogen adaptation to lung metabolites	12
Engineering natural microbial communities: harnessing synthetic communities for bioremediation	12
Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture: using synthetic biology to enhance nitrogen metabolism in plant-associated microbes	12
Mechanisms and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Clostridioides difficile	12
Editorial Board	12
Immune evasion runs in the family: two surface protein families of Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes	12
Editorial overview: AMR in the environment — too complex for surveillance?	11
Multi-layered genome defences in bacteria	11
Clostridioides difficile – phage relationship the RNA way	11
Evolution and synthetic biology	11
Glycan processing in gut microbiomes	11
Human milk oligosaccharides and the infant gut microbiome from an eco-evolutionary perspective	11
Bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate in polluted soils by plant-associated microbes	11
Sensing and responding to host-derived stress signals: lessons from fungal meningitis pathogen	11
Compartmentalization during bacterial spore formation	10
Human microbiome variance is underestimated	10
Forgotten fungi: the importance of the skin mycobiome	10
New frontiers in short-chain alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	10
Co-ordinated assembly of the multilayered cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria	10
The role of nucleoid-associated proteins in mediating responses to environmental changes	10
The mystery of persistent, asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections	10
Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domains in bacterial and plant immunity	10
Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota	10
Selective drivers of simple multicellularity	10
The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches	10
The complex developmental mechanisms of nucleus-forming jumbo phages	10
The multifaceted lifestyle of enterococci: genetic diversity, ecology and risks for public health	10
Are microbes colimited by multiple resources?	10
From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation in microbiology	9
Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution	9
Skin models for studying vector-borne kinetoplastid infections	9
Lessons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes	9
Hungry for control: metabolite signaling to chromatin in Plasmodium falciparum	9
The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology	9
Editorial overview: Two to tango: The intricate communications between host and bacteria	9
Long-chain fatty acids as nutrients for Gram-negative bacteria: stress, proliferation, and virulence	9
Crosstalk between malaria and host proteome during the intraerythrocytic developmental cycle	9
Human intestinal organoids as models to study enteric bacteria and viruses	9
Editorial overview: Gene regulation mechanisms governing Clostridioides difficile physiology and virulence	9
Editorial Board	9
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	9
Nutritional control of bacterial DNA replication	9
Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis	9
When bacteria are phage playgrounds: interactions between viruses, cells, and mobile genetic elements	9