OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 17. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
PANoptosis in microbial infection	117
Neonatal gut microbiome and immunity	90
The gut, the bad and the harmless: Candida albicans as a commensal and opportunistic pathogen in the intestine	88
Hepatitis E virus: host tropism and zoonotic infection	79
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	66
Linking bacterial growth, survival, and multicellularity – small signaling molecules as triggers and drivers	62
The potential of using E. coli as an indicator for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment	59
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	59
The antiviral activities of TRIM proteins	59
The assembly of β-barrel outer membrane proteins	52
When is a transcription factor a NAP?	49
Immunoglobulin A and the microbiome	48
The challenges of estimating the human global burden of disease of antimicrobial resistant bacteria	47
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	46
How antibiotics work together: molecular mechanisms behind combination therapy	46
PAS domains in bacterial signal transduction	42
Bacterial CRISPR screens for gene function	38
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: an antibiotic resilient pathogen with environmental origin	38
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis associated with viral pneumonitis	38
The antimalarial resistome – finding new drug targets and their modes of action	37
Natural recreational waters and the risk that exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria poses to human health	37
Role of pollution on the selection of antibiotic resistance and bacterial pathogens in the environment	37
The ever-expanding world of bacterial cyclic oligonucleotide second messengers	37
Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything	37
Diversity of bacterial chemosensory systems	36

Fungal endophytes in plants and their relationship to plant disease	36
Salmonella effector driven invasion of the gut epithelium: breaking in and setting the house on fire	36
Eradicating biofilm infections: an update on current and prospective approaches	35
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	35
Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota	35
Synthesis and recycling of the mycobacterial cell envelope	34
More than propellers: how flagella shape bacterial motility behaviors	34
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	34
New discoveries expand possibilities for carboxysome engineering	32
Epithelial inflammasomes in the defense against Salmonella gut infection	32
The multifaceted lifestyle of enterococci: genetic diversity, ecology and risks for public health	31
Microbial communities and their enzymes facilitate degradation of recalcitrant polymers in anaerobic digestion	30
Regulation and function of class A Penicillin-binding proteins	30
Antibiotic persistence and tolerance: not just one and the same	30
I want to break free – macrophage strategies to recognize and kill Candida albicans, and fungal counter-strategies to escape	30
The evolutionary success of regulated cell death in bacterial immunity	30
Salmonella pathogenesis and host-adaptation in farmed animals	29
Microbial assimilation of lignin-derived aromatic compounds and conversion to value-added products	29
Towards a deeper understanding of microbial communities: integrating experimental data with dynamic models	29
Impact of bacterial persisters on their host	28
Selective drivers of simple multicellularity	28
Beyond the CRISPR-Cas safeguard: PICI-encoded innate immune systems protect bacteria from bacteriophage predation	28
An overview of the global antimicrobial resistance research and development hub and the current landscape	28
Glycan processing in gut microbiomes	27
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies	27
Dynamic of the human gut microbiome under infectious diarrhea	27
Aeromonas: the multifaceted middleman in the One Health world	27
The molecular and genetic basis of antifungal resistance in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris	27
Roles of liquid–liquid phase separation in bacterial RNA metabolism	26
Evolutionary relationships among shell proteins of carboxysomes and metabolosomes	26
Advances and challenges in single-cell RNA-seq of microbial communities	26
Bacterial efflux transporters’ polyspecificity – a gift and a curse?	26
Multi-metal nutrient restriction and crosstalk in metallostasis systems in microbial pathogens	26
The acid response network of Staphylococcus aureus	26
Lipoproteins in Gram-negative bacteria: new insights into their biogenesis, subcellular targeting and functional roles	26
Homeostasis of the Gram-negative cell envelope	25
Putting microbial interactions back into community contexts	25
T cell immunity to commensal fungi	25
Yeast synthetic biology advances biofuel production	25
Protein stoichiometry, structural plasticity and regulation of bacterial microcompartments	25
Bacterial microcompartments and their role in pathogenicity	25
Ecological dynamics of plasmid transfer and persistence in microbial communities	25
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	25
Bacterial microcompartments: tiny organelles with big potential	24
The bidirectional nature of microbiome-epithelial cell interactions	24
Epigenome-metabolome-microbiome axis in health and IBD	24
Mother–infant transmission of human microbiota	24
Structure-based design of novel polyhedral protein nanomaterials	23
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	23
Immunometabolism in fungal infections: the need to eat to compete	23

Climate change and plant pathogens	23
Minority report: the intestinal mycobiota in systemic infections	23
Metabolic regulation of sexual commitment in Plasmodium falciparum	23
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	23
Control engineering and synthetic biology: working in synergy for the analysis and control of microbial systems	23
Engineered bacteria to report gut function: technologies and implementation	22
The longitudinal and cross-sectional heterogeneity of the intestinal microbiota	22
Recent advances in applying cell-free systems for high-value and complex natural product biosynthesis	22
The intestinal mycobiome as a determinant of host immune and metabolic health	21
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	21
Kin recognition and outer membrane exchange (OME) in myxobacteria	21
A perfect fit: Bacteriophage receptor-binding proteins for diagnostic and therapeutic applications	20
Regulation of Clostridioides difficile toxin production	20
Metabolic control of virulence factor production in Staphylococcus aureus	20
Diversity, detection and exploitation: linking soil fungi and plant disease	20
Shigella infection and host cell death: a double-edged sword for the host and pathogen survival	20
Rhizosphere bacterial interactions and impact on plant health	20
Microbes to support plant health: understanding bioinoculant success in complex conditions	20
The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology	20
The impact of two-component sensorial network in staphylococcal speciation	19
Functional roles of microbial cell-to-cell heterogeneity and emerging technologies for analysis and control	19
Anchoring surface proteins to the bacterial cell wall by sortase enzymes: how it started and what we know now	19
Pathogenic Aspergillus and Fusarium as important causes of blinding corneal infections — the role of neutrophils in fungal killing, tissue damage and cytokine production	19
When the metabolism meets the cell cycle in bacteria	19
Modifications of cell wall polymers in Gram-positive bacteria by multi-component transmembrane glycosylation systems	19
The evolution of MarR family transcription factors as counter-silencers in regulatory networks	19
Who’s in control? Regulation of metabolism and pathogenesis in space and time	18
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	18
Bacterial signaling as an antimicrobial target	18
Recent structural insights into bacterial microcompartment shells	18
The first line of defense: effector pathways of anti-fungal innate immunity	18
It’s all in your head: antifungal immunity in the brain	18
Inflammasome activation by Salmonella	18
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	18
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	17
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	17
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	17
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	17
Probing the diversity and regulation of tRNA modifications	17
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	17
cAMP signalling and its role in host cell invasion by malaria parasites	17
Eradicating, retaining, balancing, swarming, shuttling and dumping: a myriad of tasks for neutrophils during fungal infection	17
Regulation of Citrobacter rodentium colonization: virulence, immune response and microbiota interactions	17
Colonization resistance: metabolic warfare as a strategy against pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae	17
Targeting a highly conserved domain in bacterial histidine kinases to generate inhibitors with broad spectrum activity	17