OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cell Host & Microbe is 78. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Viral mimicry protects from infection when you’re expecting	960
Breathe and bloom: Gut hypoxia limits C. albicans growth	656
Gut commensals expand vitamin A metabolic capacity of the mammalian host	468
Functional map of SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease reveals tolerant and immutable sites	465
Loss of α-gal during primate evolution enhanced antibody-effector function and resistance to bacterial sepsis	458
Secretory IgA: Linking microbes, maternal health, and infant health through human milk	336
Global, distinctive, and personal changes in molecular and microbial profiles by specific fibers in humans	306
Sowing the seeds of infection	289
Virus hunters: Discovering the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2	270
The bacterial effector GarD shields Chlamydia trachomatis inclusions from RNF213-mediated ubiquitylation and destruction	264
The dominoes fall after long-term antibiotic exposure	234
Commensals make the most of their hosts	219
Trick and no treat: Carbohydrate preemption by commensal Enterobacteriaceae	207
Neutrophils flash their GLUTs to beat back detestable fungi	195
Even old foes can learn sweet new tricks	181
Salmonella “RecAmends” self-healing	180
Find a little help from my (microbial) friends	174
Norovirus cell tropism: The road to uncovering its secret hideout	167
Holding back: HLA-associated inhibition of NK cells gives HIV a leg up	166
Human cytomegalovirus degrades DMXL1 to inhibit autophagy, lysosomal acidification, and viral assembly	165
The devil in the details: Herd immunity and pandemic response	164
From parent to progeny	164
Candidalysin: An unlikely aide for fungal gut commensalism	157
A single-nucleotide polymorphism in Helicobacter pylori promotes gastric cancer development	154
From poo to promise: Fecal microbiota transplants support immunotherapy re-sensitization in solid tumors	150

Microbiome modification for personalized treatment of dysbiotic diseases	139
Potent cross-neutralization of respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus through a structurally conserved antibody recognition mode	138
Candida lipase packs a punch against IL-17	132
Multi-armed antibiotics for Gram-positive bacteria	131
Direct comparison of antibody responses to four SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in Mongolia	130
Microbial byproducts determine reproductive fitness of free-living and parasitic nematodes	129
A secondary metabolite drives intraspecies antagonism in a gut symbiont that is inhibited by cell-wall acetylation	128
Anatomy promotes neutral coexistence of strains in the human skin microbiome	125
A Gpr35-tuned gut microbe-brain metabolic axis regulates depressive-like behavior	119
The mouth opens wide onto an additional view of immune development at mucosal borders	118
The quest for control	117
Assessing phage-host population dynamics by reintroducing virulent viruses to synthetic microbiomes	114
Worming into infancy: Exploring helminth-microbiome interactions in early life	114
Divide and conquer: Spatiotemporal plant innate immunity at single-cell resolution	114
RNAi, a sword of plant seeds to combat viral infections	111
Detect and destroy: CRISPR-based technologies for the response against viruses	108
Ecological diversity profiles of non-vaccine-targeted HPVs after gender-based community vaccination efforts	107
Stress-induced condensate switch awakens sleeping viruses	106
Growing up: A NOD2 our microbes	106
Susceptible bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract without evolving resistance	105
Microbial genome mining expedition unearths trove of antiviral defenses	104
Salmonella-liberated dietary L-arabinose promotes expansion in superspreaders	104
The gut-brain axis goes viral	102
Identification of host regulators of Mycobacterium tuberculosis phenotypes uncovers a role for the MMGT1-GPR156 lipid droplet axis in persistence	99
Improving ICI outcomes with a little help from my microbial friends	99
Cryo-EM structures reveal the molecular basis of receptor-initiated coxsackievirus uncoating	98
Engineered bacteria recycle tumor metabolic waste to boost immunotherapy	97
Fighting the invisible foe in cancer therapy	97
Anti-V1/V3-glycan broadly HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies in a post-treatment controller	95
Salmonella Typhimurium expansion in the inflamed murine gut is dependent on aspartate derived from ROS-mediated microbiota lysis	95
A prophage competition element protects Salmonella from lysis	94
Mommy’s microbes: Gestational diabetes mellitus shapes the maternal and infant gut microbiome	94
Selenium nanoboosting of plant-beneficial microbiome	93
Persistence of spike protein at the skull-meninges-brain axis may contribute to the neurological sequelae of COVID-19	92
Walking down the phosphorylation path to root immunity	88
Type I IFN-mediated NET release promotes Mycobacterium tuberculosis replication and is associated with granuloma caseation	88
Fiber-deficient diets reprogram the microbiota	87
Rethinking phage-bacteria-eukaryotic relationships and their influence on human health	86
SARS-CoV-2 human T cell epitopes: Adaptive immune response against COVID-19	86
Developmental trajectory of the healthy human gut microbiota during the first 5 years of life	84
Early life host-microbe interactions in skin	84
Generation of host-directed and virus-specific antivirals using targeted protein degradation promoted by small molecules and viral RNA mimics	83
Antiretroviral therapy reveals triphasic decay of intact SIV genomes and persistence of ancestral variants	82
Robust SARS-CoV-2 infection in nasal turbinates after treatment with systemic neutralizing antibodies	81
Fecal matters: Microbial signatures distinguish clinically relevant subtypes of precancerous colorectal polyps	81
Structural insights into viral RNA capping and plasma membrane targeting by Chikungunya virus nonstructural protein 1	81
Mycobacterium tuberculosis suppresses host DNA repair to boost its intracellular survival	80
Bacteroides acidifaciens drives a liver detox program	79
Commensal microbiota regulates skin barrier function and repair via signaling through the aryl hydrocarbon receptor	79
Pre-existing humoral immunity to human common cold coronaviruses negatively impacts the protective SARS-CoV-2 antibody response	79

Gut commensal E. coli outer membrane proteins activate the host food digestive system through neural-immune communication	79
Fungi make fun guys	79
mRNA vaccines: A promising platform for safer, more effective next-generation Orthopoxvirus immunization	78
INDELible impact: How structural variants drive virulence and resistance	78
Rapid design of bacteriophage cocktails to suppress the burden and virulence of gut-resident carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae	78