Current Opinion in Microbiology

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	225
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	179
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	137
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	130
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	116
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	112
Harnessing ‘phage training’ to bolster the therapeutic potential of bacteriophages	109
Interplay between bacterial outer membranes and S-layers	109
Corrigendum to “Assembly and maturation of methyl-coenzyme M reductase in methanogenic archaea” [Curr Opin Microbiol, 87 (2025) 102637]	109
Innate immune responses to Rickettsia: emerging themes and contrasts between species	107
The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities	102
Starvation as a weapon in fungal–plant warfare	100
Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities	98
Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly	97
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	97
Editorial Board	91
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	83
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	79
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	79
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	73
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	73
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	71
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	69
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	68
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	68

Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	63
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	62
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	60
Pathways of mRNA decay in trypanosomes	60
Phagosome maturation during fungal infection	56
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	53
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	53
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	52
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	51
tRNAs as toxin targets in phage defence and a focus of counter-defence against abortive infection	51
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	50
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	49
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	48
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	48
Trace gas oxidation as a novel microbial dispersal trait	47
From coarse-grained metabolic rules to fine-grained control of microbial communities	47
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	47
Decoding the epigenetic blueprint behind Toxoplasma (pre)sexual commitment and chronic persistence	45
Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms	45
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	44
Genetically engineered bacteriophages — their roles in combating intracellular bacterial infections and unraveling phage–eukaryote interactions	44
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	43
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	42
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	42
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	41
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	41
Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions	40
Editorial overview: Antibiotic discovery: Feeding the pipeline or finding new pipes?	40
Differences and similarities between innate immune evasion strategies of human coronaviruses	39
The power of the small: the underestimated role of small proteins in bacterial and archaeal physiology	39
The human vaginal microbiota: from clinical medicine to models to mechanisms	38
Ecology of methyl-coenzyme M reductase encoding Thermoproteota	38
Ready, STAT3, Go! Bacteria in the race for M2 macrophage polarisation	38
Bacteriophage communities are a reservoir of unexplored microbial diversity in neonatal health and disease	38
The role of protein Ser/Thr/Tyr kinases in bacteriophage infection	38
Environmental adaptation and diversification of bacterial two-component systems	37
Dissecting skin microbiota and microenvironment for the development of therapeutic strategies	37
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	37
Editorial overview: There and back again: a phage’s tale	36
Cell cycle regulation in Escherichia coli: from governing principles, checkpoints, and control variables to molecular mechanisms	36
A tale of two nitrous oxide reductases: a cautionary perspective	34
Editorial Board	34
Editorial overview: Turtles all the way down: Bacterial cell regulation across scales	34
Cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2s and parasite development: the Toxoplasma paradigm	33
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	33
The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages	33
Antibiotic tolerance: targeting bacterial survival	33
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	32
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	32
Phage transmission strategies: are phages farming their host?	32

Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	31
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	31
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	31
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	30
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	30
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	30
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	30
Investigating bacterial evolution in nature with metagenomics	30
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	30
The importance of persistence and dormancy in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease	29
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	28
Editorial overview: Return of the phages — a new golden era of molecular discovery and synthetic biology	28
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance	28
Temporospatial control of topoisomerases by essential cellular processes	28
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	27
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	27
Gram-positive pathogens, inflammation, and the host lipid environment	27
Editorial Board	26
From known knowns to unknown unknowns: synthetic biology paths to antimicrobial discovery	26
Editorial Board	26
In situ genetic modification of gut bacteria	26
Host-directed therapies for malaria: possible applications and lessons from other indications	25
Discovery of new mechanisms to control metabolism and homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis	24
The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics	24
Differential signaling roles of the KinA-KinE sensor kinases in regulating Spo0A, the master regulator of Bacillus subtilis cell‑fate decisions	24
Diversity and evolution of alphaproteobacterial dimorphism	24
The ribosome as a small-molecule sensor	24
Horizontal gene transfer and beyond: the delivery of biological matter by bacterial membrane vesicles to host and bacterial cells	24
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	24
The case for exploring innate memory in Plasmodium infection	22
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	22
Molecular mechanisms of cellular quiescence in apicomplexan parasites	21
Current perspectives of host-pathogen dynamics in coccidioidomycosis	21
Microbial biomolecular condensates: from conserved principles to synthetic biology opportunities	21
Editorial overview: current state and future of the microbiome field: why context matters	21
Phage defense origin of animal immunity	21
The promise of copper ionophores as antimicrobials	21
Interplay of emerging and established technologies drives innovation in natural product antibiotic discovery	21
The multifaceted roles of Myb domain–containing proteins in apicomplexan parasites	20
Brownian ratchet mechanisms for carboxysome positioning in bacteria	20
Dissecting S-itaconation at host–pathogen interactions with chemical proteomics tools	20
Innate immune response to Candida auris	20
Encapsulins: catalysis inside a shell	20
Engineering genetic circuits: advancements in genetic design automation tools and standards for synthetic biology	20
Mutations in RNA polymerase that drive the emergence of antibiotic resistance	20
Flagellotropic phages: common yet diverse host interaction strategies	20
Drugging the microbiome: targeting small microbiome molecules	20
Targeting Helicobacter pylori for antibacterial drug discovery with novel therapeutics	20
Present and future outlooks on environmental DNA-based methods for antibiotic discovery	19
Accessing nutrients as the primary benefit arising from chemotaxis	19
Editorial Board	19
Immunometabolism shapes chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection: insights from biofilm infection models	19
Posttranslational modifications in bacteria during phage infection	19
Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces	19
Cell wall synthesizing complexes in Mycobacteriales	19
Addressing antibiotic resistance: computational answers to a biological problem?	18
Hedging their bets: how bacterial pathogens diversify to survive infection	18
Evolution of Mincle in vertebrates: adaptation to environmental stresses	18
Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens during persistent infection of humans	18
Capers with caspases: Toxoplasma gondii tales of inflammation and survival	18
How pathogens drive adipose tissue loss in the host	18
Physiology of atmospheric methane-oxidizing bacteria	18
Hybrids unleashed: exploring the emergence and genomic insights of pathogenic yeast hybrids	17
Physiological mechanisms driving virulence in insect-pathogenic fungi	17
Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways	17
Editorial Board	17
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	17
Making sense of drug-efflux transporters in the physiological environment	17
Cardiac damage and tropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	17
Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment	17
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	17
Editorial Board	16
Climate change and plant pathogens	16
Antimicrobial discovery from underexplored environments: unlocking specialized metabolism	16
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	16
Host interactions with hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae along the gut–liver axis	15
Synthesizing microbial biodiversity	15
Use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approaches for dose optimization: a case study of plazomicin	15
Histone code: a common language and multiple dialects to meet the different developmental requirements of apicomplexan parasites	15
Interactions of Vibrio phages and their hosts in aquatic environments	15

It's complicated: relationships between integrative and conjugative elements and their bacterial hosts	15
Symbioses between fungi and bacteria: from mechanisms to impacts on biodiversity	15
Editorial Board	15
Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria	15
The yin and yang of the universal transcription factor NusG	15
Editorial Board	15
Taming wild replicons: evolution and domestication of large extrachromosomal replicons	15
Dividing lines: compartmentalisation and division in Streptomyces	15
From dusty shelves toward the spotlight: growing evidence for Ap4A as an alarmone in maintaining RNA stability and proteostasis	15
Advances in constraint-based models: methods for improved predictive power based on resource allocation constraints	15
Contributions of diverse models of the female reproductive tract to the study of Chlamydia trachomatis-host interactions	14
Dirammox (direct ammonia oxidation) to nitrogen (N2): discovery, current status, and perspectives	14
Recent insights into type-3 secretion system injectisome structure and mechanism of human enteric pathogens	14
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as a model vector-borne pathogen: insights on regulation of gene and protein expression	14
Beyond the protein lattice: bacterial S-layer glycans — from structure to functional frontier	14
Innate immune responses and monocyte-derived phagocyte recruitment in protective immunity to pathogenic bacteria: insights from Legionella pneumophila	13
Recent advances in Cryptosporidium secreted proteins	13
Pathogen adaptation to lung metabolites	13
Interkingdom interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans affect clinical outcomes and antimicrobial responses	13
Editorial Board	13
Human milk oligosaccharides and the infant gut microbiome from an eco-evolutionary perspective	13
The mystery of persistent, asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections	12
The complex developmental mechanisms of nucleus-forming jumbo phages	12
Engineering natural microbial communities: harnessing synthetic communities for bioremediation	12
Time to switch gears: how long noncoding RNAs function as epigenetic regulators in Apicomplexan parasites	12
From the known to the unknown: the diverse family of TetR-like regulators in Bacillus subtilis	12
Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture: using synthetic biology to enhance nitrogen metabolism in plant-associated microbes	12
Sensing and responding to host-derived stress signals: lessons from fungal meningitis pathogen	12
Artificial selection of microbial communities: what have we learnt and how can we improve?	12
CTP switches in ParABS-mediated bacterial chromosome segregation and beyond	12
Toxin–antitoxin systems as mediators of phage defence and the implications for abortive infection	12
Editorial Board	12
Evolution and synthetic biology	12
Immune evasion runs in the family: two surface protein families of Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes	12
Human and mouse NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasome responses to bacterial infection	12
Multi-layered genome defences in bacteria	11
Human microbiome variance is underestimated	11
New frontiers in short-chain alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	11
Forgotten fungi: the importance of the skin mycobiome	11
Bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate in polluted soils by plant-associated microbes	11
Are microbes colimited by multiple resources?	11
Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota	11
Reconstructing the encystation network in Entamoeba: integration of lipid metabolism, cytoskeleton remodeling, and transcriptional rewiring	11
Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domains in bacterial and plant immunity	11
S-layers as natural building blocks for nanobiotechnology and synthetic biology	11
Co-ordinated assembly of the multilayered cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria	11
Compartmentalization during bacterial spore formation	10
Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution	10
Lessons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes	10
Editorial overview: Two to tango: The intricate communications between host and bacteria	10
Nutritional control of bacterial DNA replication	10
Metabolic adaptations of hemoparasites: coenzyme A and polyamine biosynthesis pathways as drug targets	10
Single-cell analysis and control of microbial systems using optogenetics	10
Editorial Board	10
From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation in microbiology	10
Crosstalk between malaria and host proteome during the intraerythrocytic developmental cycle	10
The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology	9
Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis	9
Long-chain fatty acids as nutrients for Gram-negative bacteria: stress, proliferation, and virulence	9
The role of nucleoid-associated proteins in mediating responses to environmental changes	9
Alginate catabolic systems in marine bacteria	9
Matching the β-oxidation gene repertoire with the wide diversity of fatty acids	9
Hungry for control: metabolite signaling to chromatin in Plasmodium falciparum	9
Skin models for studying vector-borne kinetoplastid infections	9
The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches	9
New insights into host–dermatophyte interactions: pathogenesis, host defense mechanisms, and emerging clinical challenges	9
Fungal endophytes in plants and their relationship to plant disease	9
The diverse effects of stress in cross-feeding systems	9
Human intestinal organoids as models to study enteric bacteria and viruses	9
Manipulation of nonclassical ubiquitin signaling by pathogenic bacteria	9
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	9
When bacteria are phage playgrounds: interactions between viruses, cells, and mobile genetic elements	9