Current Opinion in Microbiology

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	121
Editorial Board	117
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	116
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	106
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	97
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	84
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	77
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	75
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	72
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	71
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	69
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	68
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	68
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	68
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	68
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	66
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	63
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	62
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	61
Editorial Board	61
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	61
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	59
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	58
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	56
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	55

Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	54
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	53
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	53
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	53
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	53
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	50
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	49
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	49
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	48
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	48
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	48
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	48
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	47
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	47
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	47
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	46
Editorial overview: Bacterial microcompartments to the fore as metabolism is put in its place	46
Editorial Board	46
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	46
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	45
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	44
Pain killers: the interplay between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and Clostridioides difficile infection	43
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	39
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	39
Ready, STAT3, Go! Bacteria in the race for M2 macrophage polarisation	39
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	39
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	39
The human vaginal microbiota: from clinical medicine to models to mechanisms	38
The longitudinal and cross-sectional heterogeneity of the intestinal microbiota	37
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	37
Cell cycle regulation in Escherichia coli: from governing principles, checkpoints, and control variables to molecular mechanisms	36
Bacteriophage communities are a reservoir of unexplored microbial diversity in neonatal health and disease	36
The power of the small: the underestimated role of small proteins in bacterial and archaeal physiology	36
Protein stoichiometry, structural plasticity and regulation of bacterial microcompartments	36
What’s for dinner? How Citrobacter rodentium’s metabolism helps it thrive in the competitive gut	35
Dissecting skin microbiota and microenvironment for the development of therapeutic strategies	35
Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions	34
Environmental adaptation and diversification of bacterial two-component systems	34
Differences and similarities between innate immune evasion strategies of human coronaviruses	34
Editorial Board	33
Editorial overview: Turtles all the way down: Bacterial cell regulation across scales	33
Editorial overview: There and back again: a phage’s tale	32
Antibiotic tolerance: targeting bacterial survival	31
A tale of two nitrous oxide reductases: a cautionary perspective	31
Second messenger signaling in Clostridioides difficile	31
Regulation of para-cresol production in Clostridioides difficile	30
Cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2s and parasite development: the Toxoplasma paradigm	30
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	30
Phage transmission strategies: are phages farming their host?	30
The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages	30

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

Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens during persistent infection of humans	16
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	15
Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways	15
Clostridioides difficile spore germination: initiation to DPA release	15
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	15
Capers with caspases: Toxoplasma gondii tales of inflammation and survival	15
Making sense of drug-efflux transporters in the physiological environment	15
Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment	15
Cardiac damage and tropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	15
Climate change and plant pathogens	14
Editorial Board	14
From a parts list to assembly instructions and an operating manual: how small host models can re-write microbiome theory	14
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	14
The yin and yang of the universal transcription factor NusG	14
Use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approaches for dose optimization: a case study of plazomicin	14
Synthesizing microbial biodiversity	14
Histone code: a common language and multiple dialects to meet the different developmental requirements of apicomplexan parasites	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
It's complicated: relationships between integrative and conjugative elements and their bacterial hosts	13
Inflammasome activation by Salmonella	13
Symbioses between fungi and bacteria: from mechanisms to impacts on biodiversity	13
Dividing lines: compartmentalisation and division in Streptomyces	13
Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria	13
Antibacterial particles and predatory bacteria as alternatives to antibacterial chemicals in the era of antibiotic resistance	13
Contributions of diverse models of the female reproductive tract to the study of Chlamydia trachomatis-host interactions	12
Recent insights into type-3 secretion system injectisome structure and mechanism of human enteric pathogens	12
Microbial assimilation of lignin-derived aromatic compounds and conversion to value-added products	12
Editorial Board	12
From dusty shelves toward the spotlight: growing evidence for Ap4A as an alarmone in maintaining RNA stability and proteostasis	12
Dirammox (direct ammonia oxidation) to nitrogen (N2): discovery, current status, and perspectives	12
Editorial Board	12
What’s metal got to do with it? Transition metals in Clostridioides difficile infection	12
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as a model vector-borne pathogen: insights on regulation of gene and protein expression	12
Interkingdom interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans affect clinical outcomes and antimicrobial responses	12
Immune evasion runs in the family: two surface protein families of Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes	12
Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture: using synthetic biology to enhance nitrogen metabolism in plant-associated microbes	11
Human and mouse NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasome responses to bacterial infection	11
Antibiotic persistence and tolerance: not just one and the same	11
Innate immune responses and monocyte-derived phagocyte recruitment in protective immunity to pathogenic bacteria: insights from Legionella pneumophila	11
Time to switch gears: how long noncoding RNAs function as epigenetic regulators in Apicomplexan parasites	11
Mechanisms and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Clostridioides difficile	11
Pathogen adaptation to lung metabolites	11
Human milk oligosaccharides and the infant gut microbiome from an eco-evolutionary perspective	11
Artificial selection of microbial communities: what have we learnt and how can we improve?	11
Sensing and responding to host-derived stress signals: lessons from fungal meningitis pathogen	10
CTP switches in ParABS-mediated bacterial chromosome segregation and beyond	10
Arginine sensing in intracellular parasitism of Leishmania	10
Clostridioides difficile – phage relationship the RNA way	10
Glycan processing in gut microbiomes	10
Microbial communities and their enzymes facilitate degradation of recalcitrant polymers in anaerobic digestion	10
Toxin–antitoxin systems as mediators of phage defence and the implications for abortive infection	10
Editorial overview: AMR in the environment — too complex for surveillance?	10
Genome reconstructions of metabolism of Plasmodium RBC and liver stages	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
The mystery of persistent, asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections	10
Transcriptional and metabolic regulation of EHEC and Citrobacter rodentium pathogenesis	10
Evolution and synthetic biology	10
Bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate in polluted soils by plant-associated microbes	10
Multi-layered genome defences in bacteria	10
Selective drivers of simple multicellularity	9
Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota	9
Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domains in bacterial and plant immunity	9
The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches	9
From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation in microbiology	9
Control engineering and synthetic biology: working in synergy for the analysis and control of microbial systems	9
Human microbiome variance is underestimated	9
Forgotten fungi: the importance of the skin mycobiome	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
Nutritional control of bacterial DNA replication	9
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	9
Editorial overview: “All in all, it is not just another brick in the wall”: new concepts and mechanisms on how bacteria build their wall	9
Co-ordinated assembly of the multilayered cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria	9
The multifaceted lifestyle of enterococci: genetic diversity, ecology and risks for public health	9
Are microbes colimited by multiple resources?	9
Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution	9
Skin models for studying vector-borne kinetoplastid infections	9
Editorial Board	9
When bacteria are phage playgrounds: interactions between viruses, cells, and mobile genetic elements	8
The microbial and host factors that govern Candida gastrointestinal colonization and dissemination	8
The potential of using E. coli as an indicator for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment	8
Matching the β-oxidation gene repertoire with the wide diversity of fatty acids	8
Progress and opportunities in microbial community metabolomics	8
Mixotrophy in cyanobacteria	8
Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis	8
Alginate catabolic systems in marine bacteria	8
The expanding universe of contractile injection systems in bacteria	8
Stay on track — revelations of bacterial cell wall synthesis enzymes and things that go by single-molecule imaging	8
Biophysical approaches to understand and re-purpose bacterial microcompartments	8
Hungry for control: metabolite signaling to chromatin in Plasmodium falciparum	8
Lessons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes	8
Host–microbe interactions: communication in the microbiota–gut–brain axis	8
Regulation of Citrobacter rodentium colonization: virulence, immune response and microbiota interactions	8
Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything	8