OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cell Host & Microbe is 80. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Breathe and bloom: Gut hypoxia limits C. albicans growth	576
Selenium nanoboosting of plant-beneficial microbiome	323
Waste as an antibacterial weapon	287
Pseudomonas infections persisting after CFTR modulators are widespread throughout the lungs and drive lung inflammation	278
The bacterial effector GarD shields Chlamydia trachomatis inclusions from RNF213-mediated ubiquitylation and destruction	257
Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities	235
A secondary metabolite drives intraspecies antagonism in a gut symbiont that is inhibited by cell-wall acetylation	227
Engineered bacteria recycle tumor metabolic waste to boost immunotherapy	210
Sowing the seeds of infection	199
Functional map of SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease reveals tolerant and immutable sites	198
Microbial genome mining expedition unearths trove of antiviral defenses	190
Metatranscriptomics uncovers diurnal functional shifts in bacterial transgenes with profound metabolic effects	189
Candidalysin: An unlikely aide for fungal gut commensalism	187
When predators meet the matrix: Natural resistance via amyloid fibers	185
Crosstalk between three CRISPR-Cas types enables primed type VI-A adaptation in Listeria seeligeri	169
Epithelial hypoxia maintains colonization resistance against Candida albicans	163
Combatting superbugs using the evolutionary record of microbial warfare	157
Cohabitation facilitates microbiome shifts that promote isoflavone transformation to ameliorate liver injury	155
Microbial byproducts determine reproductive fitness of free-living and parasitic nematodes	152
Proteobacteria impair anti-tumor immunity in the omentum by consuming arginine	152
Diverse events have transferred genes for edible seaweed digestion from marine to human gut bacteria	150
MFSD6 is an entry receptor for respiratory enterovirus D68	146
Comprehensive analyses of a large human gut Bacteroidales culture collection reveal species- and strain-level diversity and evolution	145
Secretory IgA: Linking microbes, maternal health, and infant health through human milk	143
There and back again: Discovering antiviral and antiphage defenses using deep homology	141

Cad1 turns ATP into phage poison	140
Antibiotic treatment ignites a fire that lasts	138
How hosts accurately command bacteria for gut health	137
Tactical terminase: How a Salmonella prophage navigates oxidative stress	137
Beta-carbolines suppress vaginal inflammation	136
Cross-regulation of antibody responses against the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and commensal microbiota via molecular mimicry	136
A bacterial signal coordinates plant-microbe fitness trade-off to enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants	127
Immunity to fungi and vaccine considerations	125
Gut microbial β-glucuronidases influence endobiotic homeostasis and are modulated by diverse therapeutics	124
Virulence factors perforate the pathogen-containing vacuole to signal efferocytosis	123
Select symbionts drive high IgA levels in the mouse intestine	113
A broadly distributed predicted helicase/nuclease confers phage resistance via abortive infection	113
Conspecific versus heterospecific transmission shapes host specialization of the phyllosphere microbiome	112
Subtle, persistent shaping of the gut microbiome by host genes: A critical determinant of host biology	111
From top to bottom: Staphylococci in atopic dermatitis	108
Help from commensals: β-hex to regulate gut immunity	108
Two-for-one: Dual host-microbe functions of S. epidermidis Sph	107
Impact of a 7-day homogeneous diet on interpersonal variation in human gut microbiomes and metabolomes	105
BCAA-producing Clostridium symbiosum promotes colorectal tumorigenesis through the modulation of host cholesterol metabolism	105
Uniting against enteric invaders: IgA meets its microbial ally	104
Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75 variant	104
Predator-prey interplay: When chemical conversation turns deadly	102
Microbiota alert: Proteobacteria consume arginine to dampen omental antitumor immunity	102
Lost and found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer	101
Antibiotics fire up inflammation to cool vaccine responsiveness	101
Global translational induction during NLR-mediated immunity in plants is dynamically regulated by CDC123, an ATP-sensitive protein	100
Exclusive enteral nutrition initiates individual protective microbiome changes to induce remission in pediatric Crohn’s disease	99
MX2 forms nucleoporin-comprising cytoplasmic biomolecular condensates that lure viral capsids	99
A lung pathobiont story: Thinking outside the Koch’s postulate box	99
Overcoming drug resistance, the natural way	95
Enhanced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 and XBB sub-lineages by a tetravalent COVID-19 vaccine booster	94
One population, multiple lifestyles: Commensalism and pathogenesis in the human mycobiome	94
“AHR-ming” host defense against cryptosporidiosis	93
The gut microbiome: Bridging medications and clinical outcomes post stem cell transplantation	93
Gut IgA: Never fear, the super inducers are here	93
Microbiota-dependent proteolysis of gluten subverts diet-mediated protection against type 1 diabetes	93
A mucin-regulated adhesin determines the spatial organization and inflammatory character of a bacterial symbiont in the vertebrate gut	92
On-person adaptive evolution of Staphylococcus aureus during treatment for atopic dermatitis	92
Dietary environmental factors shape the immune defense against Cryptosporidium infection	91
Location matters in RSV protection	91
Intestinal microbiota programming of alveolar macrophages influences severity of respiratory viral infection	90
SARS-CoV-2 human T cell epitopes: Adaptive immune response against COVID-19	90
Multiple introductions and recombination events underlie the emergence of a hyper-transmissible Cryptosporidium hominis subtype in the USA	89
Decline in nitrosative stress drives antibiotic persister regrowth during infection	89
A single-cell liver atlas of Plasmodium vivax infection	87
Precision modulation of dysbiotic adult microbiomes with a human-milk-derived synbiotic reshapes gut microbial composition and metabolites	87
A key genetic factor governing arabinan utilization in the gut microbiome alleviates constipation	84
RSV and rhinovirus increase pneumococcal carriage acquisition and density, whereas nasal inflammation is associated with bacterial shedding	84
Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sub-lineages BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2	84
GOSpel for tiny allies	83

Methylglyoxal is an antibacterial effector produced by macrophages during infection	82
Pseudomonads coordinate innate defense against viruses and bacteria with a single regulatory system	82
AI in microbiome research: Where have we been, where are we going?	82
Bacteria exploit viral dormancy to establish CRISPR-Cas immunity	81
Immune chromatin reader SP140 regulates microbiota and risk for inflammatory bowel disease	80