OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cell Host & Microbe is 80. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Selenium nanoboosting of plant-beneficial microbiome	602
Waste as an antibacterial weapon	341
Sowing the seeds of infection	300
Microbial genome mining expedition unearths trove of antiviral defenses	291
Candidalysin: An unlikely aide for fungal gut commensalism	280
Functional map of SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease reveals tolerant and immutable sites	241
Engineered bacteria recycle tumor metabolic waste to boost immunotherapy	236
When predators meet the matrix: Natural resistance via amyloid fibers	214
Crosstalk between three CRISPR-Cas types enables primed type VI-A adaptation in Listeria seeligeri	211
Microbial byproducts determine reproductive fitness of free-living and parasitic nematodes	207
Combatting superbugs using the evolutionary record of microbial warfare	198
Pseudomonas infections persisting after CFTR modulators are widespread throughout the lungs and drive lung inflammation	197
Cohabitation facilitates microbiome shifts that promote isoflavone transformation to ameliorate liver injury	193
Breathe and bloom: Gut hypoxia limits C. albicans growth	189
Secretory IgA: Linking microbes, maternal health, and infant health through human milk	181
A secondary metabolite drives intraspecies antagonism in a gut symbiont that is inhibited by cell-wall acetylation	171
Metatranscriptomics uncovers diurnal functional shifts in bacterial transgenes with profound metabolic effects	168
Diverse events have transferred genes for edible seaweed digestion from marine to human gut bacteria	158
MFSD6 is an entry receptor for respiratory enterovirus D68	155
The bacterial effector GarD shields Chlamydia trachomatis inclusions from RNF213-mediated ubiquitylation and destruction	153
Comprehensive analyses of a large human gut Bacteroidales culture collection reveal species- and strain-level diversity and evolution	150
Proteobacteria impair anti-tumor immunity in the omentum by consuming arginine	150
Epithelial hypoxia maintains colonization resistance against Candida albicans	149
There and back again: Discovering antiviral and antiphage defenses using deep homology	148
Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities	148

How hosts accurately command bacteria for gut health	145
Tactical terminase: How a Salmonella prophage navigates oxidative stress	144
A bacterial signal coordinates plant-microbe fitness trade-off to enhance sulfur deficiency tolerance in plants	140
From top to bottom: Staphylococci in atopic dermatitis	139
Uniting against enteric invaders: IgA meets its microbial ally	139
Two-for-one: Dual host-microbe functions of S. epidermidis Sph	131
A broadly distributed predicted helicase/nuclease confers phage resistance via abortive infection	128
Beta-carbolines suppress vaginal inflammation	127
Immunity to fungi and vaccine considerations	127
Virulence factors perforate the pathogen-containing vacuole to signal efferocytosis	118
Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75 variant	117
Antibiotic treatment ignites a fire that lasts	116
Select symbionts drive high IgA levels in the mouse intestine	113
Gut microbial β-glucuronidases influence endobiotic homeostasis and are modulated by diverse therapeutics	112
Cad1 turns ATP into phage poison	109
Conspecific versus heterospecific transmission shapes host specialization of the phyllosphere microbiome	109
Subtle, persistent shaping of the gut microbiome by host genes: A critical determinant of host biology	108
Impact of a 7-day homogeneous diet on interpersonal variation in human gut microbiomes and metabolomes	106
Help from commensals: β-hex to regulate gut immunity	106
Cross-regulation of antibody responses against the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and commensal microbiota via molecular mimicry	105
BCAA-producing Clostridium symbiosum promotes colorectal tumorigenesis through the modulation of host cholesterol metabolism	105
Lost and found: Reconstituting PRR immune function through co-receptor transfer	104
Overcoming drug resistance, the natural way	103
A lung pathobiont story: Thinking outside the Koch’s postulate box	101
Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sub-lineages BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2	100
RSV and rhinovirus increase pneumococcal carriage acquisition and density, whereas nasal inflammation is associated with bacterial shedding	99
Antibiotics fire up inflammation to cool vaccine responsiveness	99
Location matters in RSV protection	97
“AHR-ming” host defense against cryptosporidiosis	95
One population, multiple lifestyles: Commensalism and pathogenesis in the human mycobiome	95
The gut microbiome: Bridging medications and clinical outcomes post stem cell transplantation	95
Gut IgA: Never fear, the super inducers are here	95
A mucin-regulated adhesin determines the spatial organization and inflammatory character of a bacterial symbiont in the vertebrate gut	94
Predator-prey interplay: When chemical conversation turns deadly	94
Microbiota alert: Proteobacteria consume arginine to dampen omental antitumor immunity	94
Enhanced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 and XBB sub-lineages by a tetravalent COVID-19 vaccine booster	94
Decline in nitrosative stress drives antibiotic persister regrowth during infection	93
Global translational induction during NLR-mediated immunity in plants is dynamically regulated by CDC123, an ATP-sensitive protein	93
A single-cell liver atlas of Plasmodium vivax infection	93
MX2 forms nucleoporin-comprising cytoplasmic biomolecular condensates that lure viral capsids	93
Dietary environmental factors shape the immune defense against Cryptosporidium infection	93
Multiple introductions and recombination events underlie the emergence of a hyper-transmissible Cryptosporidium hominis subtype in the USA	91
On-person adaptive evolution of Staphylococcus aureus during treatment for atopic dermatitis	90
Intestinal microbiota programming of alveolar macrophages influences severity of respiratory viral infection	89
A key genetic factor governing arabinan utilization in the gut microbiome alleviates constipation	88
Microbiota-dependent proteolysis of gluten subverts diet-mediated protection against type 1 diabetes	85
Precision modulation of dysbiotic adult microbiomes with a human-milk-derived synbiotic reshapes gut microbial composition and metabolites	84
SARS-CoV-2 human T cell epitopes: Adaptive immune response against COVID-19	84
Longitudinal profiling of the microbiome at four body sites reveals core stability and individualized dynamics during health and disease	83
Exclusive enteral nutrition initiates individual protective microbiome changes to induce remission in pediatric Crohn’s disease	83

A counterintuitive antibody cocktail disrupts coxsackievirus	83
Bacteria exploit viral dormancy to establish CRISPR-Cas immunity	82
When NOD ligands become antidotes	82
Pseudomonads coordinate innate defense against viruses and bacteria with a single regulatory system	81
Enteric virome negatively affects seroconversion following oral rotavirus vaccination in a longitudinally sampled cohort of Ghanaian infants	81
E. coli prophages encode an arsenal of defense systems to protect against temperate phages	80