OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of mBio is 55. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Efficient Terpene Production by Marine Thraustochytrids: Shedding Light on the Thermodynamic Driving Force	159
A Bacterial Cell-Based Assay To Study SARS-CoV-2 Protein-Protein Interactions	151
A Single Amino Acid Switch in the Adenoviral DNA Binding Protein Abrogates Replication Center Formation and Productive Viral Infection	123
Setting the Stage for the Next Great Vaccine Success Story	120
2021 Acknowledgment of mBio Invited Editors	113
A CLK1-KKT2 Signaling Pathway Regulating Kinetochore Assembly in Trypanosoma brucei	112
SARS-CoV-2 hijacks p38β/MAPK11 to promote virus replication	110
A dynamic epibiont community associated with the bone-eating polychaete genus Osedax	109
Use of the Human Granulysin Transgenic Mice To Evaluate the Role of Granulysin Expression by CD8 T Cells in Immunity To Mycobacterium tuberculosis	102
Estradiol mediates greater germinal center responses to influenza vaccination in female than male mice	100
Defining early steps in Bacillus subtilis biofilm biosynthesis	94
A novel plasmid-encoded transposon-derived small RNA reveals the mechanism of sRNA-regulated bacterial persistence	91
RNA toehold switch-based reporter assay to assess bacterial uptake of antisense oligomers	90
Amplicon sequencing and culture-dependent approaches reveal core bacterial endophytes aiding freezing stress tolerance in alpine Rosaceae plants	90
SUN-domain proteins of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum are essential for proper nuclear division and DNA repair	89
Intravacuolar persistence in neutrophils facilitates Listeria monocytogenes spread to co-cultured cells	88
Dual function of Candida auris mannosyltransferase, MNT5, in biofilm community protection from antifungal therapy and the host	87
A Two-Component-System-Governed Regulon That Includes a β-Lactamase Gene is Responsive to Cell Envelope Disturbance	86
Evidence for an ACE2-Independent Entry Pathway That Can Protect from Neutralization by an Antibody Used for COVID-19 Therapy	83
Effect of Baloxavir and Oseltamivir in Combination on Infection with Influenza Viruses with PA/I38T or PA/E23K Substitutions in the Ferret Model	80
Modeling the Life Cycle of the Intramitochondrial Bacterium “ Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii” Using Electron Microscopy Data	80
Aspartyl peptidase May1 induces host inflammatory response by altering cell wall composition in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans	80
Broad and potent neutralizing antibodies are elicited in vaccinated individuals following Delta/BA.1 breakthrough infection	80
Ubiquitination of acetyltransferase Gcn5 contributes to fungal virulence in Fusarium graminearum	76
Fungal Melanin Biosynthesis Pathway as Source for Fungal Toxins	75

Respiration supports intraphagosomal filamentation and escape of Candida albicans from macrophages	73
Polymicrobial Interactions Operative during Pathogen Transmission	71
Mrs4 loss of function in fungi during adaptation to the cystic fibrosis lung	70
GP96 Drives Exacerbation of Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia following Influenza A Virus Infection	70
The Impact of Natural Transformation on the Acquisition of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants	70
Genetic Dissection of Antibiotic Adjuvant Activity	68
Antenna Modification Leads to Enhanced Nitrogenase Activity in a High Light-Tolerant Cyanobacterium	67
Neodymium as Metal Cofactor for Biological Methanol Oxidation: Structure and Kinetics of an XoxF1-Type Methanol Dehydrogenase	67
Pf ARID Regulates P. falciparum Malaria Parasite Male Gametogenesis and Female Fertility and Is Critical for Parasite Transmission to the Mosquito Vector	66
Spontaneous episodic inflammation in the intestines of mice lacking HNF4A is driven by microbiota and associated with early life microbiota alterations	65
SAMase of Bacteriophage T3 Inactivates Escherichia coli’s Methionine S -Adenosyltransferase by Forming Heteropolymers	65
Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Is Emitted in Aerosol Particles	63
A Single Dose of Anti-HBsAg Antibody-Encoding mRNA-LNPs Suppressed HBsAg Expression: a Potential Cure of Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection	63
The Histidine Kinase CckA Is Directly Inhibited by a Response Regulator-like Protein in a Negative Feedback Loop	62
Genome-Wide Association Study of Campylobacter - Positive Diarrhea Identifies Genes Involved in Toxin Processing and Inflammatory Response	62
Molecular Insights into the Assembly and Functional Diversification of Typhoid Toxin	62
How P. aeruginosa cells with diverse stator composition collectively swarm	61
Progression of ampC amplification during de novo amoxicillin resistance development in E. coli	60
Virulence factor discovery identifies associations between the Fic gene family and Fap2 ⁺ fusobacteria in colorectal cancer microbiomes	60
Reverse transcriptase inhibitors diminish systemic proinflammatory responses to bacterial pathogens	60
Completely conserved VP2 residue K140 of KREMEN1-dependent enteroviruses is critical for virus-receptor interactions and viral infection	60
An adenoviral vector encoding an inflammation-inducible antagonist, HMGB1 Box A, as a novel therapeutic approach to inflammatory diseases	60
Sdd3 regulates the biofilm formation of Candida albicans via the Rho1-PKC-MAPK pathway	59
Inhibition and evasion of neutrophil microbicidal responses by Legionella longbeachae	59
Gcn2 rescues reprogramming in the absence of Hog1/p38 signaling in C. neoformans during thermal stress	58
Listeria-Vectored Multiantigenic Tuberculosis Vaccine Enhances Protective Immunity against Aerosol Challenge with Virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis in BCG-Immunized C57BL/6 and BALB/c Mice	57
The Proteobacterial Methanotroph Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b Remodels Membrane Lipids in Response to Phosphate Limitation	57
Reply to Oren et al., “New Phylum Names Harmonize Prokaryotic Nomenclature”	56
Toxoplasma gondii GRA28 Is Required for Placenta-Specific Induction of the Regulatory Chemokine CCL22 in Human and Mouse	56
Reply to Luger, “Why Is It So Hard to Find Persistent Borreliella burgdorferi?”	55
HetF Protein Is a New Divisome Component in a Filamentous and Developmental Cyanobacterium	55
The New SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Their Epidemiological Impact in Mexico	55