Current Opinion in Microbiology

Article	Citations
Clostridioides difficile spore germination: initiation to DPA release	104
Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution	103
Editorial overview: “All in all, it is not just another brick in the wall”: new concepts and mechanisms on how bacteria build their wall	96
Editorial Board	89
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Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	69
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Editorial overview: Two to tango: The intricate communications between host and bacteria	65
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	63
Editorial Board	61
Post-translational lipid modifications in Plasmodium parasites	60
Hybrids unleashed: exploring the emergence and genomic insights of pathogenic yeast hybrids	59
Reframing antimicrobial resistance as a continuous spectrum of manifestations	58
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	57
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	57
D-galactonate metabolism in enteric bacteria: a molecular and physiological perspective	57
Control engineering and synthetic biology: working in synergy for the analysis and control of microbial systems	56
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	56
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	54
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	54
Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment	53
Safeguarding wheat yields from cereal fungal invaders in the postgenomic era	52
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	51
Anchoring surface proteins to the bacterial cell wall by sortase enzymes: how it started and what we know now	50
Introducing noncanonical amino acids for studying and engineering bacterial microcompartments	50

Transport of lipopolysaccharides and phospholipids to the outer membrane	49
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	49
Utilization of microbial cocultures for converting mixed substrates to valuable bioproducts	48
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	48
Human intestinal organoids as models to study enteric bacteria and viruses	47
Incorporating plasmid biology and metagenomics into a holistic model of the human gut microbiome	47
Homeostasis of the Gram-negative cell envelope	45
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	45
The intestinal mycobiome as a determinant of host immune and metabolic health	44
Host-pathogen interactions: lessons from phagocytic predation on fungi	42
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	42
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	41
The blueprint for building a biofilm the Clostridioides difficile way	41
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	41
A cell–cell atlas approach for understanding symbiotic interactions between microbes	41
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	40
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	40
Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways	39
Making sense of drug-efflux transporters in the physiological environment	39
Heat-shock responses: systemic and essential ways of malaria parasite survival	38
Capers with caspases: Toxoplasma gondii tales of inflammation and survival	38
Nutritional control of bacterial DNA replication	38
The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches	38
Recurring and emerging themes in prokaryotic innate immunity	38
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	37
Gear up! An overview of the molecular equipment used by Myxococcus to move, kill, and divide in prey colonies	36
Cardiac damage and tropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	36
How do bacteria tune transcription termination efficiency?	36
The ‘ins and outs’ of Brucella intracellular journey	35
Culturomics, a potential approach paving the way toward bacteriotherapy	35
Host determinants and responses underlying SARS-CoV-2 liver tropism	35
Current approaches to malaria vaccines	34
From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation in microbiology	34
Structure-guided metagenome mining to tap microbial functional diversity	34
Regulation and function of class A Penicillin-binding proteins	34
Synthesis and recycling of the mycobacterial cell envelope	33
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	33
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	32
Resolving metabolic interaction mechanisms in plant microbiomes	32
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	31
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	30
Rhizosphere bacterial interactions and impact on plant health	30
Fungal pathogens and COVID-19	30
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	29
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	29
Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions	29
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	29
Modelling of microbial interactions in anaerobic digestion: from black to glass box	28
Host immune response against fungal biofilms	28
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	28

Lessons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes	28
Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	28
Global dispersal and diversity of rust fungi in the context of plant health	28
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	27
Insights into the role of the respiratory tract microbiome in defense against bacterial pneumonia	27
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	27
A perfect fit: Bacteriophage receptor-binding proteins for diagnostic and therapeutic applications	27
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	27
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	27
Natural recreational waters and the risk that exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria poses to human health	26
Climate change and plant pathogens	26
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	25
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	25
Advances in constraint-based models: methods for improved predictive power based on resource allocation constraints	25
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	25
Surface-displayed glycopolymers of Clostridioides difficile	25
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	25
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	24
Editorial Board	23
Histone code: a common language and multiple dialects to meet the different developmental requirements of apicomplexan parasites	23
Editorial overview: Systems and synthetic biology of microbial cells and communities	23
Editorial Board	23
Editorial overview: A critical crossroad in microbiome research: Where do we go?	22
Editorial overview: Gene regulation mechanisms governing Clostridioides difficile physiology and virulence	22
Editorial Board	22
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	22
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Studying antibiotic persistence in vivo using the model organism Salmonella Typhimurium	22
Ethanolamine bacterial microcompartments: from structure, function studies to bioengineering applications	21
Bacterial lipid biophysics and membrane organization	21
Biofilms as more than the sum of their parts: lessons from developmental biology	21
Use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approaches for dose optimization: a case study of plazomicin	21
Leveraging laboratory and clinical studies to design effective antibiotic combination therapy	21
Stochastic response of bacterial cells to antibiotics: its mechanisms and implications for population and evolutionary dynamics	20
The microbial and host factors that govern Candida gastrointestinal colonization and dissemination	20
When the metabolism meets the cell cycle in bacteria	20
Batrachochytrium fungi: stealth invaders in amphibian skin	20
Quantitative biology of survival under antibiotic treatments	20
Microbial eco-evolutionary dynamics in the plant rhizosphere	19
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	19
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	19
Regulation of Citrobacter rodentium colonization: virulence, immune response and microbiota interactions	19
Central role of metabolism in Trypanosoma cruzi tropism and Chagas disease pathogenesis	19
The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology	19
Evolutionary ecology theory — microbial population structure	19
Activation of the extracytoplasmic function σ factor σV by lysozyme in Clostridioides difficile	19
From a parts list to assembly instructions and an operating manual: how small host models can re-write microbiome theory	19
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	19
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	19
The upcycled roles of pseudoenzymes in two-component signal transduction	19
Integrating plant and fungal quantitative genetics to improve the ecological and agricultural applications of mycorrhizal symbioses	18
Bacterial multicellular behavior in antiviral defense	18
Regulation of peptidoglycan hydrolases: localization, abundance, and activity	18
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	18
Interactions of Vibrio phages and their hosts in aquatic environments	18
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	18
Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis	18
Synthesizing microbial biodiversity	17
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	17
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	17
Entering deeper into the mysteries of the GroEL–GroES nanomachine	17
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	17
Hungry for control: metabolite signaling to chromatin in Plasmodium falciparum	17
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	16
The yin and yang of the universal transcription factor NusG	16
Temporospatial control of topoisomerases by essential cellular processes	16
Dynamic structural determinants in bacterial microcompartment shells	15
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance	15
Type III secretion system effector subnetworks elicit distinct host immune responses to infection	15
The enigmatic epitranscriptome of bacteriophages: putative RNA modifications in viral infections	15
Phenotypic heterogeneity in Streptomyces colonies	15
Multilayered regulation of amino acid metabolism in Escherichia coli	15
Editorial Board	15
Temperature structuring of microbial communities on a global scale	15
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	15
Editorial overview: Return of the phages — a new golden era of molecular discovery and synthetic biology	15
Escherichia coli bacteria associated with Crohn’s disease persist within phagolysosomes	15
Clostridioides difficile peptidoglycan modifications	15
Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything	14
When bacteria are phage playgrounds: interactions between viruses, cells, and mobile genetic elements	14

Symbioses between fungi and bacteria: from mechanisms to impacts on biodiversity	14
Balancing de novo synthesis and salvage of lipids by Leishmania amastigotes	14
Phage susceptibility determinants of the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus epidermidis	14
Selective molecular transport across the protein shells of bacterial microcompartments	14
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	14
Alginate catabolic systems in marine bacteria	13
Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria	13
Gram-positive pathogens, inflammation, and the host lipid environment	13
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	13
It's complicated: relationships between integrative and conjugative elements and their bacterial hosts	13
Inflammasome activation by Salmonella	13
The potential of using E. coli as an indicator for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment	13
Integrated control of surface adaptation by the bacterial flagellum	12
Cooperative defenses during enteropathogenic infection	12
Within-host evolution of the gut microbiome	12
The evolutionary ecology of rhizobia: multiple facets of competition before, during, and after symbiosis with legumes	12
Advanced genome-editing technologies enable rapid and large-scale generation of genetic variants for strain engineering and synthetic biology	12
Mixotrophy in cyanobacteria	12
An update on the current understanding of the infant skin microbiome and research challenges	12
Employing methylotrophs for a green economy: one-carbon to fuel them all and through metabolism redesign them	12
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	12
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	12
Impact of caloric restriction on the gut microbiota	12
Fungal endophytes in plants and their relationship to plant disease	12
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	12
Resource sharing between central metabolism and cell envelope synthesis	12
How did we get here? Insights into mechanisms of immunity-related GTPase targeting to intracellular pathogens	12
Continued mycovirus discovery expanding our understanding of virus lifestyles, symptom expression, and host defense	11
What’s metal got to do with it? Transition metals in Clostridioides difficile infection	11
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	11
Exploring the transcriptional landscape of phage–host interactions using novel high-throughput approaches	11
Matching the β-oxidation gene repertoire with the wide diversity of fatty acids	11
Host–microbe interactions: communication in the microbiota–gut–brain axis	11
Editorial overview: Evolution of antiviral defense	11
Immune-metabolic interactions between Leishmania and macrophage host	11
Prophages provide a rich source of antiphage defense systems	11
Regulation of sexual commitment in malaria parasites — a complex affair	11
The ribosome as a small-molecule sensor	11
The expanding universe of contractile injection systems in bacteria	10
Proteomic composition of eukaryotic and bacterial RNA decay condensates suggests convergent evolution	10
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	10
Bacterial microcompartments and their role in pathogenicity	10
Stay on track — revelations of bacterial cell wall synthesis enzymes and things that go by single-molecule imaging	10
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	10
Horizontal gene transfer and beyond: the delivery of biological matter by bacterial membrane vesicles to host and bacterial cells	10
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	10
Engineering synthetic spatial patterns in microbial populations and communities	10
Transcript tinkering: RNA modifications in protozoan parasites	10
Quantitative approaches to study phenotypic effects of large-scale genetic perturbations	10
Regulation of Clostridioides difficile toxin production	10
Cutaneous and subcutaneous fungal infections: recent developments on host–fungus interactions	10
From dusty shelves toward the spotlight: growing evidence for Ap4A as an alarmone in maintaining RNA stability and proteostasis	10
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	9
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	9
Editorial Board	9
Antibacterial particles and predatory bacteria as alternatives to antibacterial chemicals in the era of antibiotic resistance	9
Evolutionary relationships among shell proteins of carboxysomes and metabolosomes	9
Synthetic microbiology applications powered by light	9
Recent insights into type-3 secretion system injectisome structure and mechanism of human enteric pathogens	9
Publisher's Note	9
Post-transcriptional regulation in attaching and effacing pathogens: integration of environmental cues and the impact on gene expression and host interactions	9
Contributions of diverse models of the female reproductive tract to the study of Chlamydia trachomatis-host interactions	9
Plant pathogens and symbionts target the plant nucleus	9
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Bacterial photosynthesis: state-of-the-art in light-driven carbon fixation in engineered bacteria	8
The type IVc pilus: just a Tad different	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial overview: Microbial activities powering society	8
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	8
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Editorial overview: Recent advances in antimicrobial drug discovery and resistance	8
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial overview: Microbial cell regulation across multiple scales	8
Host-directed therapies for malaria: possible applications and lessons from other indications	7
Protein families secreted by nematodes to modulate host immunity	7
Prokaryote pangenomes are dynamic entities	7
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	7
Autoinducing peptide-based quorum signaling systems in Clostridioides difficile	7
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as a model vector-borne pathogen: insights on regulation of gene and protein expression	7
Role of vertical and horizontal microbial transmission of antimicrobial resistance genes in early life: insights from maternal-infant dyads	7
Progress and opportunities in microbial community metabolomics	7
Biophysical approaches to understand and re-purpose bacterial microcompartments	7
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Microbial assimilation of lignin-derived aromatic compounds and conversion to value-added products	7
PAS domains in bacterial signal transduction	7
The molecular and genetic basis of antifungal resistance in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris	6
Microbial interactions in theory and practice: when are measurements compatible with models?	6
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	6
Lipoproteins in Gram-negative bacteria: new insights into their biogenesis, subcellular targeting and functional roles	6
Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture: using synthetic biology to enhance nitrogen metabolism in plant-associated microbes	6
New discoveries expand possibilities for carboxysome engineering	6
Recent structural insights into bacterial microcompartment shells	6
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	6
“What I cannot create, I do not understand": elucidating microbe–microbe interactions to facilitate plant microbiome engineering	6