Current Opinion in Microbiology

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	110
Editorial Board	106
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	101
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	92
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	78
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	68
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	67
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	66
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	63
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	62
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	61
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	61
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	61
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	61
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	60
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	58
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	57
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	57
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	57
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	55
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	55
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	54
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	51
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	51
Editorial Board	50

Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	50
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	50
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	50
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	49
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	48
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	47
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	46
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	44
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	43
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	43
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	43
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	43
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	42
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	42
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	42
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	42
Editorial Board	41
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	41
Pain killers: the interplay between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and Clostridioides difficile infection	41
Editorial overview: Bacterial microcompartments to the fore as metabolism is put in its place	40
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	40
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	40
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	39
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	39
Structure-based design of novel polyhedral protein nanomaterials	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	38
What’s for dinner? How Citrobacter rodentium’s metabolism helps it thrive in the competitive gut	38
Ready, STAT3, Go! Bacteria in the race for M2 macrophage polarisation	36
The longitudinal and cross-sectional heterogeneity of the intestinal microbiota	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	35
The power of the small: the underestimated role of small proteins in bacterial and archaeal physiology	34
Protein stoichiometry, structural plasticity and regulation of bacterial microcompartments	34
The human vaginal microbiota: from clinical medicine to models to mechanisms	34
Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions	33
Bacteriophage communities are a reservoir of unexplored microbial diversity in neonatal health and disease	32
Dissecting skin microbiota and microenvironment for the development of therapeutic strategies	32
Editorial overview: Turtles all the way down: Bacterial cell regulation across scales	32
Differences and similarities between innate immune evasion strategies of human coronaviruses	32
Regulation of para-cresol production in Clostridioides difficile	31
Editorial Board	31
Editorial overview: There and back again: a phage’s tale	31
Cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2s and parasite development: the Toxoplasma paradigm	30
Second messenger signaling in Clostridioides difficile	30
Phage transmission strategies: are phages farming their host?	30
The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages	30
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	29
Antibiotic tolerance: targeting bacterial survival	29
Cell–cell communication through septal junctions in filamentous cyanobacteria	29

Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	28
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	28
Introducing noncanonical amino acids for studying and engineering bacterial microcompartments	28
Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	28
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	27
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	27
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	27
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	27
Host-pathogen interactions: lessons from phagocytic predation on fungi	27
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	27
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	27
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	26
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	25
Gram-positive pathogens, inflammation, and the host lipid environment	25
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	25
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	25
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	25
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance	24
Clostridioides difficile peptidoglycan modifications	24
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	24
Editorial overview: Return of the phages — a new golden era of molecular discovery and synthetic biology	24
Integrated control of surface adaptation by the bacterial flagellum	23
Activation of the extracytoplasmic function σ factor σV by lysozyme in Clostridioides difficile	23
Temporospatial control of topoisomerases by essential cellular processes	23
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	23
Evolutionary ecology theory — microbial population structure	23
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	22
Cooperative defenses during enteropathogenic infection	22
Surface-displayed glycopolymers of Clostridioides difficile	22
Ethanolamine bacterial microcompartments: from structure, function studies to bioengineering applications	22
Batrachochytrium fungi: stealth invaders in amphibian skin	22
Plasmids of Clostridioides difficile	21
Editorial overview: Microbial cell regulation across multiple scales	21
Evolutionary relationships among shell proteins of carboxysomes and metabolosomes	21
The immune response to airway mycosis	21
The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics	21
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	21
Editorial Board	21
Immune-metabolic interactions between Leishmania and macrophage host	21
The ribosome as a small-molecule sensor	20
Host-directed therapies for malaria: possible applications and lessons from other indications	20
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	20
Prokaryote pangenomes are dynamic entities	20
Phage defense origin of animal immunity	20
Horizontal gene transfer and beyond: the delivery of biological matter by bacterial membrane vesicles to host and bacterial cells	20
Editorial overview: current state and future of the microbiome field: why context matters	20
Natural products that target the cell envelope	19
The promise of copper ionophores as antimicrobials	19
Innate immune response to Candida auris	19
Molecular mechanisms of cellular quiescence in apicomplexan parasites	19
Flagellotropic phages: common yet diverse host interaction strategies	19
Diversity of bacterial chemosensory systems	19
The spatial organization of microbial communities during range expansion	18
Towards a deeper understanding of microbial communities: integrating experimental data with dynamic models	18
The multifaceted roles of Myb domain–containing proteins in apicomplexan parasites	18
Role of pollution on the selection of antibiotic resistance and bacterial pathogens in the environment	18
Metabolic flexibility in Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes: implications for persistence and drug sensitivity	18
Editorial overview: Niche-specific and species-specific host-fungal interactions — how do they impact human health?	18
Microbiomes for sustainable biomanufacturing	18
Engineering genetic circuits: advancements in genetic design automation tools and standards for synthetic biology	18
Targeting Helicobacter pylori for antibacterial drug discovery with novel therapeutics	17
Dissecting S-itaconation at host–pathogen interactions with chemical proteomics tools	17
Colonization resistance: metabolic warfare as a strategy against pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae	17
Aeromonas: the multifaceted middleman in the One Health world	17
Erratum to “Harnessing the gut microbiome in the fight against anthelminthic drug resistance” [Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 53 (February) (2020) 26–34]	17
Recent advances in applying cell-free systems for high-value and complex natural product biosynthesis	17
Drugging the microbiome: targeting small microbiome molecules	17
Interplay of emerging and established technologies drives innovation in natural product antibiotic discovery	17
Cell wall synthesizing complexes in Mycobacteriales	16
Listeriosis, a model infection to study host-pathogen interactions in vivo	16
Putting microbial interactions back into community contexts	16
Accessing nutrients as the primary benefit arising from chemotaxis	16
Hierarchical and simultaneous utilization of carbon substrates: mechanistic insights, physiological roles, and ecological consequences	16
Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces	16
Posttranslational modifications in bacteria during phage infection	16
Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens during persistent infection of humans	15
More than propellers: how flagella shape bacterial motility behaviors	15
Yeast synthetic biology advances biofuel production	15
Addressing antibiotic resistance: computational answers to a biological problem?	15
Present and future outlooks on environmental DNA-based methods for antibiotic discovery	15

Cardiac damage and tropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	14
Capers with caspases: Toxoplasma gondii tales of inflammation and survival	14
Homeostasis of the Gram-negative cell envelope	14
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: an antibiotic resilient pathogen with environmental origin	14
Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways	14
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	13
Climate change and plant pathogens	13
It's complicated: relationships between integrative and conjugative elements and their bacterial hosts	13
Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment	13
Clostridioides difficile spore germination: initiation to DPA release	13
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	13
Histone code: a common language and multiple dialects to meet the different developmental requirements of apicomplexan parasites	13
Making sense of drug-efflux transporters in the physiological environment	13
Hybrids unleashed: exploring the emergence and genomic insights of pathogenic yeast hybrids	13
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	13
Use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approaches for dose optimization: a case study of plazomicin	13
From a parts list to assembly instructions and an operating manual: how small host models can re-write microbiome theory	12
Inflammasome activation by Salmonella	12
Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria	12
Interactions of Vibrio phages and their hosts in aquatic environments	12
Advances in constraint-based models: methods for improved predictive power based on resource allocation constraints	12
Symbioses between fungi and bacteria: from mechanisms to impacts on biodiversity	12
The yin and yang of the universal transcription factor NusG	12
Synthesizing microbial biodiversity	12
Editorial Board	12
Dirammox (direct ammonia oxidation) to nitrogen (N2): discovery, current status, and perspectives	12
What’s metal got to do with it? Transition metals in Clostridioides difficile infection	11
The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as a model vector-borne pathogen: insights on regulation of gene and protein expression	11
From dusty shelves toward the spotlight: growing evidence for Ap4A as an alarmone in maintaining RNA stability and proteostasis	11
Antibacterial particles and predatory bacteria as alternatives to antibacterial chemicals in the era of antibiotic resistance	11
Editorial Board	11
Contributions of diverse models of the female reproductive tract to the study of Chlamydia trachomatis-host interactions	11
Interkingdom interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans affect clinical outcomes and antimicrobial responses	11
Recent insights into type-3 secretion system injectisome structure and mechanism of human enteric pathogens	11
Editorial Board	10
CTP switches in ParABS-mediated bacterial chromosome segregation and beyond	10
Time to switch gears: how long noncoding RNAs function as epigenetic regulators in Apicomplexan parasites	10
Targeting a highly conserved domain in bacterial histidine kinases to generate inhibitors with broad spectrum activity	10
Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture: using synthetic biology to enhance nitrogen metabolism in plant-associated microbes	10
Artificial selection of microbial communities: what have we learnt and how can we improve?	10
New discoveries expand possibilities for carboxysome engineering	10
Innate immune responses and monocyte-derived phagocyte recruitment in protective immunity to pathogenic bacteria: insights from Legionella pneumophila	10
Transcriptional and metabolic regulation of EHEC and Citrobacter rodentium pathogenesis	10
Microbial assimilation of lignin-derived aromatic compounds and conversion to value-added products	10
Human milk oligosaccharides and the infant gut microbiome from an eco-evolutionary perspective	10
Mechanisms and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Clostridioides difficile	10
Antibiotic persistence and tolerance: not just one and the same	10
Arginine sensing in intracellular parasitism of Leishmania	9
Sensing and responding to host-derived stress signals: lessons from fungal meningitis pathogen	9
Pathogenic Aspergillus and Fusarium as important causes of blinding corneal infections — the role of neutrophils in fungal killing, tissue damage and cytokine production	9
Glycan processing in gut microbiomes	9
Bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate in polluted soils by plant-associated microbes	9
Toxin–antitoxin systems as mediators of phage defence and the implications for abortive infection	9
Editorial overview: AMR in the environment — too complex for surveillance?	9
Evolution and synthetic biology	9
Multi-layered genome defences in bacteria	9
Microbial communities and their enzymes facilitate degradation of recalcitrant polymers in anaerobic digestion	9
Human and mouse NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasome responses to bacterial infection	9
Clostridioides difficile – phage relationship the RNA way	9
Genome reconstructions of metabolism of Plasmodium RBC and liver stages	9
The mystery of persistent, asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum infections	9
Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domains in bacterial and plant immunity	9
Selective drivers of simple multicellularity	8
Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota	8
Editorial overview: “All in all, it is not just another brick in the wall”: new concepts and mechanisms on how bacteria build their wall	8
A cell–cell atlas approach for understanding symbiotic interactions between microbes	8
Nutritional control of bacterial DNA replication	8
Human microbiome variance is underestimated	8
Are microbes colimited by multiple resources?	8
The multifaceted lifestyle of enterococci: genetic diversity, ecology and risks for public health	8
Editorial overview: Two to tango: The intricate communications between host and bacteria	8
The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches	8
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	8
Forgotten fungi: the importance of the skin mycobiome	8
Co-ordinated assembly of the multilayered cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria	8
Control engineering and synthetic biology: working in synergy for the analysis and control of microbial systems	8
Editorial Board	8
Human intestinal organoids as models to study enteric bacteria and viruses	8
Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution	8
Editorial overview: Gene regulation mechanisms governing Clostridioides difficile physiology and virulence	7
Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis	7
The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology	7
Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything	7
When bacteria are phage playgrounds: interactions between viruses, cells, and mobile genetic elements	7
Lessons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes	7
Type III secretion system effector subnetworks elicit distinct host immune responses to infection	7
The microbial and host factors that govern Candida gastrointestinal colonization and dissemination	7
The upcycled roles of pseudoenzymes in two-component signal transduction	7
Mixotrophy in cyanobacteria	7
Alginate catabolic systems in marine bacteria	7
Regulation of Citrobacter rodentium colonization: virulence, immune response and microbiota interactions	7
From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation in microbiology	7
The potential of using E. coli as an indicator for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment	7
Plant pathogens and symbionts target the plant nucleus	7
Hungry for control: metabolite signaling to chromatin in Plasmodium falciparum	7