OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cell Host & Microbe is 78. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Sowing the seeds of infection	534
Microbial genome mining expedition unearths trove of antiviral defenses	298
Selenium nanoboosting of plant-beneficial microbiome	263
Candidalysin: An unlikely aide for fungal gut commensalism	252
Functional map of SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease reveals tolerant and immutable sites	229
Microbial byproducts determine reproductive fitness of free-living and parasitic nematodes	222
A secondary metabolite drives intraspecies antagonism in a gut symbiont that is inhibited by cell-wall acetylation	204
MFSD6 is an entry receptor for respiratory enterovirus D68	202
Cohabitation facilitates microbiome shifts that promote isoflavone transformation to ameliorate liver injury	194
Combatting superbugs using the evolutionary record of microbial warfare	187
Proteobacteria impair anti-tumor immunity in the omentum by consuming arginine	180
Crosstalk between three CRISPR-Cas types enables primed type VI-A adaptation in Listeria seeligeri	179
Pseudomonas infections persisting after CFTR modulators are widespread throughout the lungs and drive lung inflammation	177
Diverse events have transferred genes for edible seaweed digestion from marine to human gut bacteria	170
Comprehensive analyses of a large human gut Bacteroidales culture collection reveal species- and strain-level diversity and evolution	170
Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities	168
The bacterial effector GarD shields Chlamydia trachomatis inclusions from RNF213-mediated ubiquitylation and destruction	151
Secretory IgA: Linking microbes, maternal health, and infant health through human milk	148
Engineered bacteria recycle tumor metabolic waste to boost immunotherapy	147
Epithelial hypoxia maintains colonization resistance against Candida albicans	145
Breathe and bloom: Gut hypoxia limits C. albicans growth	144
Waste as an antibacterial weapon	142
Metatranscriptomics uncovers diurnal functional shifts in bacterial transgenes with profound metabolic effects	141
Cad1 turns ATP into phage poison	139
Help from commensals: β-hex to regulate gut immunity	138

Two-for-one: Dual host-microbe functions of S. epidermidis Sph	135
Immunity to fungi and vaccine considerations	135
Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75 variant	133
Cross-regulation of antibody responses against the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and commensal microbiota via molecular mimicry	133
A broadly distributed predicted helicase/nuclease confers phage resistance via abortive infection	132
Gut microbial β-glucuronidases influence endobiotic homeostasis and are modulated by diverse therapeutics	130
Subtle, persistent shaping of the gut microbiome by host genes: A critical determinant of host biology	128
There and back again: Discovering antiviral and antiphage defenses using deep homology	125
Beta-carbolines suppress vaginal inflammation	125
Tactical terminase: How a Salmonella prophage navigates oxidative stress	124
Virulence factors perforate the pathogen-containing vacuole to signal efferocytosis	122
From top to bottom: Staphylococci in atopic dermatitis	118
Select symbionts drive high IgA levels in the mouse intestine	116
Antibiotic treatment ignites a fire that lasts	111
Conspecific versus heterospecific transmission shapes host specialization of the phyllosphere microbiome	111
BCAA-producing Clostridium symbiosum promotes colorectal tumorigenesis through the modulation of host cholesterol metabolism	109
How hosts accurately command bacteria for gut health	106
Impact of a 7-day homogeneous diet on interpersonal variation in human gut microbiomes and metabolomes	105
Uniting against enteric invaders: IgA meets its microbial ally	102
Overcoming drug resistance, the natural way	102
Microbiota alert: Proteobacteria consume arginine to dampen omental antitumor immunity	100
A lung pathobiont story: Thinking outside the Koch’s postulate box	99
Location matters in RSV protection	99
“AHR-ming” host defense against cryptosporidiosis	99
The gut microbiome: Bridging medications and clinical outcomes post stem cell transplantation	99
Gut IgA: Never fear, the super inducers are here	97
A single-cell liver atlas of Plasmodium vivax infection	96
Cryptosporidium rhoptry effector protein ROP1 injected during invasion targets the host cytoskeletal modulator LMO7	95
Predator-prey interplay: When chemical conversation turns deadly	94
Exclusive enteral nutrition initiates individual protective microbiome changes to induce remission in pediatric Crohn’s disease	93
Antibiotics fire up inflammation to cool vaccine responsiveness	93
Decline in nitrosative stress drives antibiotic persister regrowth during infection	93
One population, multiple lifestyles: Commensalism and pathogenesis in the human mycobiome	91
Enhanced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 and XBB sub-lineages by a tetravalent COVID-19 vaccine booster	91
On-person adaptive evolution of Staphylococcus aureus during treatment for atopic dermatitis	91
MX2 forms nucleoporin-comprising cytoplasmic biomolecular condensates that lure viral capsids	91
Systematic reconstruction of an effector-gene network reveals determinants of Salmonella cellular and tissue tropism	90
Dietary environmental factors shape the immune defense against Cryptosporidium infection	90
Intestinal microbiota programming of alveolar macrophages influences severity of respiratory viral infection	90
Global translational induction during NLR-mediated immunity in plants is dynamically regulated by CDC123, an ATP-sensitive protein	90
Precision modulation of dysbiotic adult microbiomes with a human-milk-derived synbiotic reshapes gut microbial composition and metabolites	89
Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sub-lineages BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2	89
Microbiota-dependent proteolysis of gluten subverts diet-mediated protection against type 1 diabetes	89
SARS-CoV-2 human T cell epitopes: Adaptive immune response against COVID-19	87
A key genetic factor governing arabinan utilization in the gut microbiome alleviates constipation	86
RSV and rhinovirus increase pneumococcal carriage acquisition and density, whereas nasal inflammation is associated with bacterial shedding	85
Multiple introductions and recombination events underlie the emergence of a hyper-transmissible Cryptosporidium hominis subtype in the USA	85
A counterintuitive antibody cocktail disrupts coxsackievirus	82
Shigella ubiquitin ligase IpaH7.8 targets gasdermin D for degradation to prevent pyroptosis and enable infection	82
Goodbye PAM: Phage λ’s Red recombination system cripples PAMs and helps dodge CRISPR attacks	82

A mucin-regulated adhesin determines the spatial organization and inflammatory character of a bacterial symbiont in the vertebrate gut	82
When NOD ligands become antidotes	80
Widespread RNA-based cas regulation monitors crRNA abundance and anti-CRISPR proteins	79
GOSpel for tiny allies	78
Brain development in premature infants: A bug in the programming system?	78