Current Opinion in Microbiology

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	204
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	169
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	125
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	123
Harnessing ‘phage training’ to bolster the therapeutic potential of bacteriophages	109
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	105
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	103
Starvation as a weapon in fungal–plant warfare	102
Corrigendum to “Assembly and maturation of methyl-coenzyme M reductase in methanogenic archaea” [Curr Opin Microbiol, 87 (2025) 102637]	99
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	98
Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities	93
The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities	92
Interplay between bacterial outer membranes and S-layers	89
Innate immune responses to Rickettsia: emerging themes and contrasts between species	88
Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly	87
Editorial Board	85
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	76
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	71
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	71
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	70
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	70
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	66
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	66
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	66
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	66

Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	63
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	61
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	59
Pathways of mRNA decay in trypanosomes	56
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	56
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	56
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	53
tRNAs as toxin targets in phage defence and a focus of counter-defence against abortive infection	52
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	50
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	50
Phagosome maturation during fungal infection	48
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	47
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	46
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	46
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	45
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	44
Trace gas oxidation as a novel microbial dispersal trait	44
Editorial Board	44
Decoding the epigenetic blueprint behind Toxoplasma (pre)sexual commitment and chronic persistence	43
Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms	42
Genetically engineered bacteriophages — their roles in combating intracellular bacterial infections and unraveling phage–eukaryote interactions	42
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	42
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	40
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	39
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	39
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	39
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	39
Editorial overview: Antibiotic discovery: Feeding the pipeline or finding new pipes?	38
The human vaginal microbiota: from clinical medicine to models to mechanisms	38
Dissecting skin microbiota and microenvironment for the development of therapeutic strategies	38
Ready, STAT3, Go! Bacteria in the race for M2 macrophage polarisation	38
The power of the small: the underestimated role of small proteins in bacterial and archaeal physiology	38
Differences and similarities between innate immune evasion strategies of human coronaviruses	37
Ecology of methyl-coenzyme M reductase encoding Thermoproteota	37
Bacteriophage communities are a reservoir of unexplored microbial diversity in neonatal health and disease	36
Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions	36
Cell cycle regulation in Escherichia coli: from governing principles, checkpoints, and control variables to molecular mechanisms	36
The role of protein Ser/Thr/Tyr kinases in bacteriophage infection	35
Environmental adaptation and diversification of bacterial two-component systems	35
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	34
Editorial overview: There and back again: a phage’s tale	34
Editorial overview: Turtles all the way down: Bacterial cell regulation across scales	33
Editorial Board	33
Cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2s and parasite development: the Toxoplasma paradigm	32
The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages	32
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	30
Phage transmission strategies: are phages farming their host?	30
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	29
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	29
Antibiotic tolerance: targeting bacterial survival	29

Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	29
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	29
A tale of two nitrous oxide reductases: a cautionary perspective	29
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	29
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	29
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	28
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	28
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	27
Investigating bacterial evolution in nature with metagenomics	27
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	27
The importance of persistence and dormancy in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease	27
Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	27
Editorial overview: Return of the phages — a new golden era of molecular discovery and synthetic biology	26
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	26
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance	26
Temporospatial control of topoisomerases by essential cellular processes	26
From known knowns to unknown unknowns: synthetic biology paths to antimicrobial discovery	25
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	25
Editorial Board	25
Gram-positive pathogens, inflammation, and the host lipid environment	25
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	25
Editorial Board	25
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	25
Horizontal gene transfer and beyond: the delivery of biological matter by bacterial membrane vesicles to host and bacterial cells	24
The case for exploring innate memory in Plasmodium infection	23
Diversity and evolution of alphaproteobacterial dimorphism	23
The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics	23
Host-directed therapies for malaria: possible applications and lessons from other indications	23
The ribosome as a small-molecule sensor	23
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	22
Current perspectives of host-pathogen dynamics in coccidioidomycosis	22
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	22
The promise of copper ionophores as antimicrobials	22
The multifaceted roles of Myb domain–containing proteins in apicomplexan parasites	21
Microbial biomolecular condensates: from conserved principles to synthetic biology opportunities	21
Editorial overview: current state and future of the microbiome field: why context matters	21
Phage defense origin of animal immunity	20
Brownian ratchet mechanisms for carboxysome positioning in bacteria	20
Innate immune response to Candida auris	20
Engineering genetic circuits: advancements in genetic design automation tools and standards for synthetic biology	20
Molecular mechanisms of cellular quiescence in apicomplexan parasites	20
Interplay of emerging and established technologies drives innovation in natural product antibiotic discovery	20
Accessing nutrients as the primary benefit arising from chemotaxis	19
Recent advances in applying cell-free systems for high-value and complex natural product biosynthesis	19
Flagellotropic phages: common yet diverse host interaction strategies	19
Immunometabolism shapes chronic Staphylococcus aureus infection: insights from biofilm infection models	19
Drugging the microbiome: targeting small microbiome molecules	19
Dissecting S-itaconation at host–pathogen interactions with chemical proteomics tools	19
Encapsulins: catalysis inside a shell	19
Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces	19
Cell wall synthesizing complexes in Mycobacteriales	19
Targeting Helicobacter pylori for antibacterial drug discovery with novel therapeutics	19
Editorial Board	18
Addressing antibiotic resistance: computational answers to a biological problem?	18
Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens during persistent infection of humans	18
Present and future outlooks on environmental DNA-based methods for antibiotic discovery	18
Posttranslational modifications in bacteria during phage infection	18
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	17
Evolution of Mincle in vertebrates: adaptation to environmental stresses	17
Physiology of atmospheric methane-oxidizing bacteria	17
Capers with caspases: Toxoplasma gondii tales of inflammation and survival	17
How pathogens drive adipose tissue loss in the host	17
Climate change and plant pathogens	17
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	17
Hedging their bets: how bacterial pathogens diversify to survive infection	17
Editorial Board	17
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	16
Hybrids unleashed: exploring the emergence and genomic insights of pathogenic yeast hybrids	16
Physiological mechanisms driving virulence in insect-pathogenic fungi	16
Making sense of drug-efflux transporters in the physiological environment	16
Cardiac damage and tropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	16
Editorial Board	16
Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways	16
Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment	16
Synthesizing microbial biodiversity	16
Dividing lines: compartmentalisation and division in Streptomyces	15
Use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approaches for dose optimization: a case study of plazomicin	15
Advances in constraint-based models: methods for improved predictive power based on resource allocation constraints	15
The yin and yang of the universal transcription factor NusG	15
Interactions of Vibrio phages and their hosts in aquatic environments	15

Taming wild replicons: evolution and domestication of large extrachromosomal replicons	15
Editorial Board	15
Symbioses between fungi and bacteria: from mechanisms to impacts on biodiversity	14
Contributions of diverse models of the female reproductive tract to the study of Chlamydia trachomatis-host interactions	14
Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria	14
Histone code: a common language and multiple dialects to meet the different developmental requirements of apicomplexan parasites	14
Recent insights into type-3 secretion system injectisome structure and mechanism of human enteric pathogens	14
Antimicrobial discovery from underexplored environments: unlocking specialized metabolism	14
It's complicated: relationships between integrative and conjugative elements and their bacterial hosts	14
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	13
Immune evasion runs in the family: two surface protein families of Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes	13
Dirammox (direct ammonia oxidation) to nitrogen (N2): discovery, current status, and perspectives	13
Artificial selection of microbial communities: what have we learnt and how can we improve?	13
CTP switches in ParABS-mediated bacterial chromosome segregation and beyond	13
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as a model vector-borne pathogen: insights on regulation of gene and protein expression	13
Pathogen adaptation to lung metabolites	13
Innate immune responses and monocyte-derived phagocyte recruitment in protective immunity to pathogenic bacteria: insights from Legionella pneumophila	13
Interkingdom interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans affect clinical outcomes and antimicrobial responses	13
From dusty shelves toward the spotlight: growing evidence for Ap4A as an alarmone in maintaining RNA stability and proteostasis	13
Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture: using synthetic biology to enhance nitrogen metabolism in plant-associated microbes	12
Human milk oligosaccharides and the infant gut microbiome from an eco-evolutionary perspective	12
Toxin–antitoxin systems as mediators of phage defence and the implications for abortive infection	12
Bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate in polluted soils by plant-associated microbes	12
Recent advances in Cryptosporidium secreted proteins	12
Time to switch gears: how long noncoding RNAs function as epigenetic regulators in Apicomplexan parasites	12
Engineering natural microbial communities: harnessing synthetic communities for bioremediation	12
The complex developmental mechanisms of nucleus-forming jumbo phages	12
Human and mouse NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasome responses to bacterial infection	12
Co-ordinated assembly of the multilayered cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria	11
Evolution and synthetic biology	11
Editorial Board	11
Forgotten fungi: the importance of the skin mycobiome	11
Human microbiome variance is underestimated	11
Multi-layered genome defences in bacteria	11
The mystery of persistent, asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections	11
Selective drivers of simple multicellularity	11
New frontiers in short-chain alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	11
Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domains in bacterial and plant immunity	11
Glycan processing in gut microbiomes	11
Sensing and responding to host-derived stress signals: lessons from fungal meningitis pathogen	11
Reconstructing the encystation network in Entamoeba: integration of lipid metabolism, cytoskeleton remodeling, and transcriptional rewiring	11
Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota	11
Are microbes colimited by multiple resources?	11
Editorial overview: Two to tango: The intricate communications between host and bacteria	10
Crosstalk between malaria and host proteome during the intraerythrocytic developmental cycle	10
Nutritional control of bacterial DNA replication	10
Single-cell analysis and control of microbial systems using optogenetics	10
The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches	10
Editorial Board	10
Human intestinal organoids as models to study enteric bacteria and viruses	10
Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution	9
Alginate catabolic systems in marine bacteria	9
From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation in microbiology	9
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	9
Manipulation of nonclassical ubiquitin signaling by pathogenic bacteria	9
Long-chain fatty acids as nutrients for Gram-negative bacteria: stress, proliferation, and virulence	9
Compartmentalization during bacterial spore formation	9
The role of nucleoid-associated proteins in mediating responses to environmental changes	9
Metabolic adaptations of hemoparasites: coenzyme A and polyamine biosynthesis pathways as drug targets	9
Lessons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes	9
Skin models for studying vector-borne kinetoplastid infections	9
Progress and opportunities in microbial community metabolomics	8
New insights into host–dermatophyte interactions: pathogenesis, host defense mechanisms, and emerging clinical challenges	8
Fungal endophytes in plants and their relationship to plant disease	8
Host–microbe interactions: communication in the microbiota–gut–brain axis	8
Stay on track — revelations of bacterial cell wall synthesis enzymes and things that go by single-molecule imaging	8
Plant pathogens and symbionts target the plant nucleus	8
When bacteria are phage playgrounds: interactions between viruses, cells, and mobile genetic elements	8
Hungry for control: metabolite signaling to chromatin in Plasmodium falciparum	8
Mixotrophy in cyanobacteria	8
Matching the β-oxidation gene repertoire with the wide diversity of fatty acids	8
The expanding universe of contractile injection systems in bacteria	8
Editorial overview: Linking cellular regulation and metabolic functions: from signals to mechanisms	8
Editorial overview: Gene regulation mechanisms governing Clostridioides difficile physiology and virulence	8
The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology	8
Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis	8
Swimming or sessile: the interplay between c-di-GMP signalling and flagellar motility	8
Lipid-pathogen interactions: sphingolipids in Chlamydia trachomatis infection	8