Trends in Microbiology

Article	Citations
Biofilm Matrixome: Extracellular Components in Structured Microbial Communities	618
Microbial Regulation of Host Physiology by Short-chain Fatty Acids	377
Shaping the Future of Probiotics and Prebiotics	266
Oceanic Hitchhikers – Assessing Pathogen Risks from Marine Microplastic	227
Double-Membrane Vesicles as Platforms for Viral Replication	207
The Microbiologist’s Guide to Membrane Potential Dynamics	151
Carbapenem Resistance-Encoding and Virulence-Encoding Conjugative Plasmids in Klebsiella pneumoniae	128
Fatty Acids as Antibiofilm and Antivirulence Agents	125
Herpes Simplex Virus-1 in the Brain: The Dark Side of a Sneaky Infection	123
Microbiome in Colorectal Cancer: How to Get from Meta-omics to Mechanism?	123
Bacterial Coinfections in Coronavirus Disease 2019	116
The Role of Integrative and Conjugative Elements in Antibiotic Resistance Evolution	114
Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history	99
Sutterella Species, IgA-degrading Bacteria in Ulcerative Colitis	99
Redox Partners: Function Modulators of Bacterial P450 Enzymes	88
Mitochondria-mediated oxidative stress during viral infection	87
An Ecosystems Perspective on Virus Evolution and Emergence	83
Contact-Dependent Interbacterial Antagonism Mediated by Protein Secretion Machines	82
Bacillus cereus: Epidemiology, Virulence Factors, and Host–Pathogen Interactions	82
Microbial Symbiosis: A Network towards Biomethanation	81
Making Sense of the Biodiversity and Virulence of Listeria monocytogenes	78
Human Organs-on-Chips for Virology	77
High-specificity local and global c-di-GMP signaling	73
Missing Microbes in Bees: How Systematic Depletion of Key Symbionts Erodes Immunity	73
The Long-Term Relationship between Microbial Metabolism and Greenhouse Gases	73

The Evolutionary Genomics of Host Specificity in Staphylococcus aureus	72
The Cap-Snatching Mechanism of Bunyaviruses	71
Synthetic Biology for Manipulating Quorum Sensing in Microbial Consortia	70
COVID-19 Antibody Tests: A Valuable Public Health Tool with Limited Relevance to Individuals	68
Label or Concept – What Is a Pathobiont?	68
Wall Teichoic Acid in Staphylococcus aureus Host Interaction	67
Chlamydiae in the Environment	67
The Helicobacter pylori Cag Type IV Secretion System	67
Roles of Thermokarst Lakes in a Warming World	66
Does Intraspecific Variation in rDNA Copy Number Affect Analysis of Microbial Communities?	66
Flexibility and Adaptability of Quorum Sensing in Nature	65
The Conformational States of the HIV-1 Envelope Glycoproteins	64
Avian gut microbiomes taking flight	63
Functions of Bacterial tRNA Modifications: From Ubiquity to Diversity	61
Metabolic Heterogeneity and Cross-Feeding in Bacterial Multicellular Systems	60
Ecological and evolutionary solutions to the plasmid paradox	59
The crAss-like Phage Group: How Metagenomics Reshaped the Human Virome	58
Conserved DNA Methyltransferases: A Window into Fundamental Mechanisms of Epigenetic Regulation in Bacteria	57
Type VII Toxin/Antitoxin Classification System for Antitoxins that Enzymatically Neutralize Toxins	57
Dysregulation of Cell Signaling by SARS-CoV-2	56
The Peril and Promise of Integrons: Beyond Antibiotic Resistance	55
Two Decades of Studying Functional Amyloids in Microorganisms	54
Local and Universal Action: The Paradoxes of Indole Signalling in Bacteria	54
How Microbes Evolved to Tolerate Oxygen	54
The Molecular Language of the Cnidarian–Dinoflagellate Symbiosis	53
Insights into endogenous Bifidobacterium species in the human gut microbiota during adulthood	52
Pseudomonas putida	50
Bridging Bacteria and the Gut: Functional Aspects of Type IV Pili	49
Pangolins Harbor SARS-CoV-2-Related Coronaviruses	49
Therapeutic Potential of Metformin in COVID-19: Reasoning for Its Protective Role	49
Microbial Inoculants: Silver Bullet or Microbial Jurassic Park?	48
Gut microbiome-mediated mechanisms for reducing cholesterol levels: implications for ameliorating cardiovascular disease	47
Investigating the Concept and Origin of Viruses	47
Complement Evasion by Lyme Disease Spirochetes	47
The Microbial Conveyor Belt: Connecting the Globe through Dispersion and Dormancy	46
Enhancing Microbial Pollutant Degradation by Integrating Eco-Evolutionary Principles with Environmental Biotechnology	46
Deep Learning for Imaging and Detection of Microorganisms	45
Fusobacterium nucleatum, a key pathogenic factor and microbial biomarker for colorectal cancer	45
The Role of Rhizosphere Bacteriophages in Plant Health	43
Challenges of Studying the Human Virome – Relevant Emerging Technologies	42
A Gaseous Milieu: Extending the Boundaries of the Rhizosphere	42
Advances in the bacterial organelles for CO2 fixation	42
The Evolution of Protein Secretion Systems by Co-option and Tinkering of Cellular Machineries	41
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) cell entry: structural insights	41
Durability of Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Viruses	41
Emerging Patterns of Microbial Functional Traits	40
Probing the Mobilome: Discoveries in the Dynamic Microbiome	40
Live and Wet Markets: Food Access versus the Risk of Disease Emergence	40
Molecular Logic of Prokaryotic Surface Layer Structures	40
Virus–Host Cell Interplay during Hepatitis E Virus Infection	40

Towards efficient immunotherapy for bacterial infection	40
Microbiota regulation of viral infections through interferon signaling	40
Control of synthetic microbial consortia in time, space, and composition	39
The Oral Host–Microbial Interactome: An Ecological Chronometer of Health?	39
Microbial Taxonomy Run Amok	38
Border Control: Regulating LPS Biogenesis	38
Immunometabolism during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection	37
Unveiling the Origin and Transmission of 2019-nCoV	37
Interferon system deficiencies exacerbating severe pandemic virus infections	37
Genetic Heterogeneity and Taxonomic Diversity among Gardnerella Species	37
Microbial Effector Proteins – A Journey through the Proteolytic Landscape	36
Coral Disease Causes, Consequences, and Risk within Coral Restoration	36
Acinetobacter baumannii	35
Evolution of Lantibiotic Salivaricins: New Weapons to Fight Infectious Diseases	35
Carriage of Colibactin-producing Bacteria and Colorectal Cancer Risk	35
Molecular genetics for probiotic engineering: dissecting lactic acid bacteria	35
Vertical transfer of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant strains across the mother/baby axis	33
Magnetoreception in Microorganisms	33
Bacterial outer membrane vesicles and host cell death signaling	32
Defective Interfering Particles of Negative-Strand RNA Viruses	32
Inorganic polyphosphate in host and microbe biology	32
Nucleotide biosynthesis: the base of bacterial pathogenesis	32
Diversity in the soil virosphere: to infinity and beyond?	32
Forest and Trees: Exploring Bacterial Virulence with Genome-wide Association Studies and Machine Learning	32
Mechanisms That Shape Microbial Pangenomes	32
New views on PII signaling: from nitrogen sensing to global metabolic control	32
Structure and Energy-Conversion Mechanism of the Bacterial Na+-Driven Flagellar Motor	31
Nutritional strategies for mucosal health: the interplay between microbes and mucin glycans	31
The Next Million Names for Archaea and Bacteria	31
Broadening Participation in Scientific Conferences during the Era of Social Distancing	31
From seed to seed: the role of microbial inheritance in the assembly of the plant microbiome	31
Molecular Evolution of Transition Metal Bioavailability at the Host–Pathogen Interface	31
Effects of PRRSV Infection on the Porcine Thymus	31
Noncoding RNAs: Regulatory Molecules of Host–Microbiome Crosstalk	31
Population genetics, biofilm recalcitrance, and antibiotic resistance evolution	30
Neutrophil intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of NETosis in health and disease	30
Efflux pumps in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and their inhibition to tackle antimicrobial resistance	30
A role for bacterial experimental evolution in coral bleaching mitigation?	30
Causal Inference in Microbiome Medicine: Principles and Applications	30
Molecular Determinants of SARS-CoV-2 Variants	30
Evolution of Microbial Genomics: Conceptual Shifts over a Quarter Century	30
Role of Neutralizing Antibodies in CMV Infection: Implications for New Therapeutic Approaches	29
The Enemy of My Enemy: New Insights Regarding Bacteriophage–Mammalian Cell Interactions	29
Catch Me if You Can: Superspreading of COVID-19	29
Ecology and evolution of antibiotic persistence	29
Chronic Immune Activation in TB/HIV Co-infection	28
Carbapenem and Colistin Resistance in Enterobacter: Determinants and Clones	28
Development of Microbiome Biobanks – Challenges and Opportunities	28
Targeting bacterial outer-membrane remodelling to impact antimicrobial drug resistance	27
Spiking Pandemic Potential: Structural and Immunological Aspects of SARS-CoV-2	27
Ins and Outs of Reovirus: Vesicular Trafficking in Viral Entry and Egress	27
Fungal Pathogens: Shape-Shifting Invaders	26
Cyclin-dependent Kinases as Emerging Targets for Developing Novel Antiviral Therapeutics	26
Diversity and function of arthropod endosymbiont toxins	26
Emergence and evolution of virulence in human pathogenic fungi	26
Viral manipulation of host cell necroptosis and pyroptosis	26
Bacterial quorum sensing and phenotypic heterogeneity: how the collective shapes the individual	26
Evolution of Microbiota–Host Associations: The Microbe’s Perspective	26
Multifaceted Roles of TIM-Family Proteins in Virus–Host Interactions	25
Towards a General Understanding of Bacterial Interactions	25
Development of Phylodynamic Methods for Bacterial Pathogens	25
Phase separation in viral infections	25
A Revised Understanding of Clostridioides difficile Spore Germination	25
Epigenetics: A New Frontier in Probiotic Research	24
SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA levels are not 'viral load'	24
Cross-Regulations between Bacterial Toxin–Antitoxin Systems: Evidence of an Interconnected Regulatory Network?	24
Epigenetic Memories: The Hidden Drivers of Bacterial Persistence?	24
Genomic and Postgenomic Diversity of Fungal Plant Biomass Degradation Approaches	23
Impact of Type I Interferons on Susceptibility to Bacterial Pathogens	23
Lignocellulolytic microbiomes for augmenting lignocellulose degradation in anaerobic digestion	23
Respiratory mucus as a virus-host range determinant	23
When PARPs Meet Antiviral Innate Immunity	23
The Mystery of MIS-C Post-SARS-CoV-2 Infection	23
Legionella pneumophila	23
Immunopeptidomics for next-generation bacterial vaccine development	23
Synergy between microalgae and microbiome in polluted waters	23
Hydrogen is a major lifeline for aerobic bacteria	23
Cells under pressure: how yeast cells respond to mechanical forces	23
The ambivalent role of Bacteroides in enteric infections	23
New Paradigms of Pilus Assembly Mechanisms in Gram-Positive Actinobacteria	22

Microbial Modulation of the Development and Physiology of the Enteric Nervous System	22
Control of host mitochondria by bacterial pathogens	22
DSF-family quorum sensing signal-mediated intraspecies, interspecies, and inter-kingdom communication	22
Genetic Regulation of Metal Ion Homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus	22
Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GR-1, a.k.a. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1: Past and Future Perspectives	22
Emerging Role for MAIT Cells in Control of Antimicrobial Resistance	22
The Interplay of Sex Steroids, the Immune Response, and the Intestinal Microbiota	21
Microbiome breeding: conceptual and practical issues	21
Reliable Serological Diagnostic Tests for Arboviruses: Feasible or Utopia?	21
Bacterial adaptation strategies to host-derived fatty acids	21
Antimicrobial Resistance and Bacteriophages: An Overlooked Intersection in Water Disinfection	21
Shigella sonnei	21
Vaccines to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance: The Challenge of Burkholderia cenocepacia	21
Between a Rock and a Soft Place: The Role of Viruses in Lithification of Modern Microbial Mats	21
Engineering insects from the endosymbiont out	21
Spotlight on FtsZ-based cell division in Archaea	21
Magnaporthe oryzae	21
Molecular Mechanisms of Intercellular Dissemination of Bacterial Pathogens	21
Biofilms on stone monuments: biodeterioration or bioprotection?	21
Parasexual and Sexual Reproduction in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Room for Both	20
Evolutionary constraints on the acquisition of antimicrobial peptide resistance in bacterial pathogens	20
The phosphate language of fungi	20
Slaying SARS-CoV-2 One (Single-domain) Antibody at a Time	20
New technologies for developing phage-based tools to manipulate the human microbiome	20
Electron flow: key to mitigating ruminant methanogenesis	20
Paleovirology of the DNA viruses of eukaryotes	19
Anticipatory Stress Responses and Immune Evasion in Fungal Pathogens	19
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence	19
Selective Autophagy Receptors in Antiviral Defense	19
Iron transport in cyanobacteria – from molecules to communities	19
Crosstalk between sIgA-Coated Bacteria in Infant Gut and Early-Life Health	19
Improving Risk–Benefit in Faecal Transplantation through Microbiome Screening	19
Anti-CRISPR Proteins in Archaea	19
The type III secretion system effector network hypothesis	19
Avoidance of Self during CRISPR Immunization	18
Capsicum-infecting begomoviruses as global pathogens: host–virus interplay, pathogenesis, and management	18
Xanthomonas campestris Pathovars	18
Tracing the Origin of Invasive Fungal Infections	18
A structural understanding of influenza virus genome replication	17
Systemically circulating bacterial extracellular vesicles: origin, fate, and function	17
Chlamydia overcomes multiple gastrointestinal barriers to achieve long-lasting colonization	17
Intermicrobial Hitchhiking: How Nonmotile Microbes Leverage Communal Motility	17
Gut microbiota–bile acid–skeletal muscle axis	17
Vibrio parahaemolyticus	17
Transposon-Associated CRISPR-Cas System: A Powerful DNA Insertion Tool	17
Glycan-mediated molecular interactions in bacterial pathogenesis	17
Microbial metabolites: the next frontier in human milk	17
Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?	17
Bacterial Flagella Loss under Starvation	17
Structural and Biosynthetic Diversity of Nonulosonic Acids (NulOs) That Decorate Surface Structures in Bacteria	16
Higher-order microbiome interactions and how to find them	16
Porphyromonas gingivalis	16
Capturing the microbial volatilome: an oft overlooked 'ome'	16
Networks Consolidate the Core Concepts of Evolution by Natural Selection	16
Adaptations of intracellular bacteria to vacuolar or cytosolic niches	16
Metallo-β-lactamase-mediated antimicrobial resistance and progress in inhibitor discovery	16
Gut microbiome signatures and host colonization with multidrug-resistant bacteria	16
Recent progress in understanding the ecology and molecular genetics of soil mineral weathering bacteria	16
Bacterial Defense against the Type VI Secretion System	16
The Emerging Role of Iron Acquisition in Biofilm-Associated Infections	16
Antiphage small molecules produced by bacteria – beyond protein-mediated defenses	15
Micromanaging the nitrogen cycle in agroecosystems	15
Genome-powered classification of microbial eukaryotes: focus on coral algal symbionts	15
Gut-on-chip for ecological and causal human gut microbiome research	15
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System	15
Genome-based Taxonomy for Bacteria: A Recent Advance	15
The battle for oxygen during bacterial and fungal infections	15
FtsK and SpoIIIE, coordinators of chromosome segregation and envelope remodeling in bacteria	15
Catching HPV in the Homologous Recombination Cookie Jar	14
Eat in or Take out? Metabolism of Intracellular Salmonella enterica	14
How Pathogens Feel and Overcome Magnesium Limitation When in Host Tissues	14
Vertical and horizontal quorum-sensing-based multicellular communications	14
Complex regulatory networks of virulence factors in Vibrio vulnificus	14
Protein biomethanation: insight into the microbial nexus	14
Positive Interactions in the Coral Macro and Microbiome	14
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair	14
Aspergillus fumigatus	14
RNA-based therapeutics to treat human fungal infections	14
Novel Outlook in Microbial Ecology: Nonmutualistic Interspecies Electron Transfer	13
Frenemies of the soil: Bacillus and Pseudomonas interspecies interactions	13
Geobacter sulfurreducens	13
Factors affecting antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae following vaccination introduction	13
Emerging roles of the complement system in host–pathogen interactions	13
When ferroptosis meets pathogenic infections	13
Orientia tsutsugamushi	13
Psychological and cultural factors influencing antibiotic prescription	13
Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context	13
Bacterial chemotaxis in human diseases	12
Influenza immune escape under heterogeneous host immune histories	12
AIDS-Related Mycoses: Updated Progress and Future Priorities	12
On the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and the emergence of variants of concern	12
Microbial biostimulants – the need for clarification in EU regulation	12
Thank you for biting: dispersal of beneficial microbiota through 'antagonistic' interactions	12
Likelihood of amyloid formation in COVID-19-induced ARDS	12
Inherently and Conditionally Essential Protein Catabolism Genes of Porphyromonas gingivalis	12