OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 17. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
PANoptosis in microbial infection	132
Hepatitis E virus: host tropism and zoonotic infection	94
The potential of using E. coli as an indicator for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment	81
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	77
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	72
The antiviral activities of TRIM proteins	68
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	62
The assembly of β-barrel outer membrane proteins	60
How antibiotics work together: molecular mechanisms behind combination therapy	55
The challenges of estimating the human global burden of disease of antimicrobial resistant bacteria	50
Bacterial CRISPR screens for gene function	50
Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota	50
PAS domains in bacterial signal transduction	49
Fungal endophytes in plants and their relationship to plant disease	48
Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything	47
Eradicating biofilm infections: an update on current and prospective approaches	45
Salmonella effector driven invasion of the gut epithelium: breaking in and setting the house on fire	44
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: an antibiotic resilient pathogen with environmental origin	44
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	43
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	43
The antimalarial resistome – finding new drug targets and their modes of action	42
Antibiotic persistence and tolerance: not just one and the same	42
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis associated with viral pneumonitis	42
Natural recreational waters and the risk that exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria poses to human health	42
The ever-expanding world of bacterial cyclic oligonucleotide second messengers	41

The evolutionary success of regulated cell death in bacterial immunity	40
Role of pollution on the selection of antibiotic resistance and bacterial pathogens in the environment	40
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies	39
More than propellers: how flagella shape bacterial motility behaviors	39
Climate change and plant pathogens	39
New discoveries expand possibilities for carboxysome engineering	39
Microbial communities and their enzymes facilitate degradation of recalcitrant polymers in anaerobic digestion	38
The molecular and genetic basis of antifungal resistance in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris	38
Diversity of bacterial chemosensory systems	37
Glycan processing in gut microbiomes	37
Rhizosphere bacterial interactions and impact on plant health	36
The multifaceted lifestyle of enterococci: genetic diversity, ecology and risks for public health	36
Synthesis and recycling of the mycobacterial cell envelope	36
Mother–infant transmission of human microbiota	36
Aeromonas: the multifaceted middleman in the One Health world	35
I want to break free – macrophage strategies to recognize and kill Candida albicans, and fungal counter-strategies to escape	35
Epithelial inflammasomes in the defense against Salmonella gut infection	34
Dynamic of the human gut microbiome under infectious diarrhea	34
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	34
Microbial assimilation of lignin-derived aromatic compounds and conversion to value-added products	34
Yeast synthetic biology advances biofuel production	34
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	33
Towards a deeper understanding of microbial communities: integrating experimental data with dynamic models	33
Selective drivers of simple multicellularity	33
Salmonella pathogenesis and host-adaptation in farmed animals	33
Bacterial efflux transporters’ polyspecificity – a gift and a curse?	31
Impact of bacterial persisters on their host	31
Lipoproteins in Gram-negative bacteria: new insights into their biogenesis, subcellular targeting and functional roles	31
Regulation and function of class A Penicillin-binding proteins	31
Ecological dynamics of plasmid transfer and persistence in microbial communities	31
An overview of the global antimicrobial resistance research and development hub and the current landscape	31
Microbes to support plant health: understanding bioinoculant success in complex conditions	30
Putting microbial interactions back into community contexts	30
Roles of liquid–liquid phase separation in bacterial RNA metabolism	30
Protein stoichiometry, structural plasticity and regulation of bacterial microcompartments	30
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	29
Evolutionary relationships among shell proteins of carboxysomes and metabolosomes	29
Bacterial microcompartments: tiny organelles with big potential	29
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	29
Advances and challenges in single-cell RNA-seq of microbial communities	29
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	28
T cell immunity to commensal fungi	28
Homeostasis of the Gram-negative cell envelope	28
The intestinal mycobiome as a determinant of host immune and metabolic health	27
Recent advances in applying cell-free systems for high-value and complex natural product biosynthesis	27
Bacterial microcompartments and their role in pathogenicity	26
A perfect fit: Bacteriophage receptor-binding proteins for diagnostic and therapeutic applications	26
Engineered bacteria to report gut function: technologies and implementation	26
The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology	25
The longitudinal and cross-sectional heterogeneity of the intestinal microbiota	25

Control engineering and synthetic biology: working in synergy for the analysis and control of microbial systems	25
Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria	25
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	24
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	24
Regulation of Clostridioides difficile toxin production	24
Metabolic regulation of sexual commitment in Plasmodium falciparum	24
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	24
Microbial eco-evolutionary dynamics in the plant rhizosphere	23
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	23
Diversity, detection and exploitation: linking soil fungi and plant disease	23
Pathogenic Aspergillus and Fusarium as important causes of blinding corneal infections — the role of neutrophils in fungal killing, tissue damage and cytokine production	23
Structure-based design of novel polyhedral protein nanomaterials	23
Current approaches to malaria vaccines	23
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	23
Modifications of cell wall polymers in Gram-positive bacteria by multi-component transmembrane glycosylation systems	23
Immunometabolism in fungal infections: the need to eat to compete	23
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	23
Anchoring surface proteins to the bacterial cell wall by sortase enzymes: how it started and what we know now	23
Colonization resistance: metabolic warfare as a strategy against pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae	23
Toxin–antitoxin systems as mediators of phage defence and the implications for abortive infection	23
Shigella infection and host cell death: a double-edged sword for the host and pathogen survival	22
The first line of defense: effector pathways of anti-fungal innate immunity	22
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	22
Functional roles of microbial cell-to-cell heterogeneity and emerging technologies for analysis and control	21
Targeting a highly conserved domain in bacterial histidine kinases to generate inhibitors with broad spectrum activity	21
When the metabolism meets the cell cycle in bacteria	21
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	21
Inflammasome activation by Salmonella	21
Bacterial signaling as an antimicrobial target	20
Streptomyces behavior and competition in the natural environment	20
Recent advances in the development of metal complexes as antibacterial agents with metal-specific modes of action	20
The spatial organization of microbial communities during range expansion	19
Probing the diversity and regulation of tRNA modifications	19
It’s all in your head: antifungal immunity in the brain	19
Recent structural insights into bacterial microcompartment shells	19
Immunotherapeutic approaches for fungal infections	18
Regulation of peptidoglycan hydrolases: localization, abundance, and activity	18
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	18
Listeriosis, a model infection to study host-pathogen interactions in vivo	18
Eradicating, retaining, balancing, swarming, shuttling and dumping: a myriad of tasks for neutrophils during fungal infection	18
Resource sharing between central metabolism and cell envelope synthesis	18
CRISPR screens in the era of microbiomes	18
cAMP signalling and its role in host cell invasion by malaria parasites	18
Prophages provide a rich source of antiphage defense systems	18
Regulation of Citrobacter rodentium colonization: virulence, immune response and microbiota interactions	18
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	18
Hierarchical and simultaneous utilization of carbon substrates: mechanistic insights, physiological roles, and ecological consequences	18
Cell–cell communication through septal junctions in filamentous cyanobacteria	17
One species, different diseases: the unique molecular mechanisms that underlie the pathogenesis of typhoidal Salmonella infections	17
Prokaryote pangenomes are dynamic entities	17
Engineering temporal dynamics in microbial communities	17
Mechanisms and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Clostridioides difficile	17
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	17
Bioremediation of the herbicide glyphosate in polluted soils by plant-associated microbes	17
Intraspecies heterogeneity in microbial interactions	17