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Toll-like receptor signalling in macrophages links the autophagy pathway to phagocytosis
Miguel A. Sanjuan et al.
Nature 450, 1253–1257
(20 December 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06421
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ATP-sensitive potassium channels mediate survival during infection in mammals and insects
Ben Croker et al.
Nature Genetics 39, 1453–1460
(December 2007); doi:10.1038/ng.2007.25
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Sudden and unexpected
Rudi Balling
Nature Genetics 39, 1422–1423
(December 2007); doi:10.1038/ng1207-1422
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Intracellular bacterial growth is controlled by a kinase network around PKB/AKT1
Coenraad Kuijl et al.
Nature 450, 725–730
(29 November 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06345
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In vivo gene regulation in Salmonella spp. by a salicylate-dependent control circuit
José Luis Royo et al.
Nature Methods 4, 937–942
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nmeth1107
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Pathogens on aspirin: promising research and therapeutic applications
Ohad Gal-Mor & B Brett Finlay
Nature Methods 4, 893–894
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nmeth1107-893
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The Drosophila systemic immune response: sensing and signalling during bacterial and fungal infections
Dominique Ferrandon, Jean-Luc Imler, Charles Hetru & Jules A. Hoffmann
Nature Reviews Immunology 7, 862–874
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nri2194
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Chemosensory pathways, motility and development in Myxococcus xanthus
David R. Zusman, Ansley E. Scott, Zhaomin Yang & John R. Kirby
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 862–872
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1770
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Legionella pneumophila proteins that regulate Rab1 membrane cycling
Alyssa Ingmundson, Anna Delprato, David G. Lambright & Craig R. Roy
Nature 450, 365–369
(15 November 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06336
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Microbiology: Pathogen drop-kick
Suzanne Pfeffer
Nature 450, 361–362
(15 November 2007); doi:10.1038/450361a
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CD16 promotes Escherichia coli sepsis through an FcRbold gamma inhibitory pathway that prevents phagocytosis and facilitates inflammation
Fabiano Pinheiro da Silva et al.
Nature Medicine 13, 1368–1374
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1665
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Inhibition of FcεRI-mediated mast cell responses by ES-62, a product of parasitic filarial nematodes
Alirio J Melendez et al.
Nature Medicine 13, 1375–1381
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1654
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Worms tame mast cells
Edward J Pearce
Nature Medicine 13, 1288–1289
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1107-1288
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A translocation signal for delivery of oomycete effector proteins into host plant cells
Stephen C. Whisson et al.
Nature 450, 115–118
(1 November 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06203
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Helicobacter exploits integrin for type IV secretion and kinase activation
Terry Kwok et al.
Nature 449, 862–866
(18 October 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06187
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Microbiology: Preparing the shot
Christof R. Hauck
Nature 449, 798–799
(18 October 2007); doi:10.1038/449798a
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Interferon modulation of cellular microRNAs as an antiviral mechanism
Irene M. Pedersen et al.
Nature 449, 919–922
(18 October 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06205
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The structure of bacterial ParM filaments
Albina Orlova, Ethan C Garner, Vitold E Galkin, John Heuser, R Dyche Mullins & Edward H Egelmant
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14, 921–926
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nsmb1300
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A concentration-dependent switch in the bacterial response to temperature
Hanna Salman & Albert Libchaber
Nature Cell Biology 9, 1098–1100
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1632
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Turning to the cold
Victor Sourjik & Ned S. Wingreen
Nature Cell Biology 9, 1029–1031
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb0907-1029
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Beyond toothpicks: new methods for isolating mutant bacteria
A. James Link, Ki Jun Jeong & George Georgiou
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 680–688
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1715
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The biological role of death and lysis in biofilm development
Kenneth W. Bayles
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 721–726
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1743
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Targeting virulence: a new paradigm for antimicrobial therapy
Anne E Clatworthy, Emily Pierson & Deborah T Hung
Nature Chemical Biology 3, 541–548
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nchembio.2007.24
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Beneficial suicide: why neutrophils die to make NETs
Volker Brinkmann & Arturo Zychlinsky
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 577–582
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1710
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A flagellin-induced complex of the receptor FLS2 and BAK1 initiates plant defence
Delphine Chinchilla, Cyril Zipfel, Silke Robatzek, Birgit Kemmerling, Thorsten Nürnberger, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Georg Felix & Thomas Boller
Nature 448, 497–500
(26 July 2007); doi:10.1038/nature05999
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A bacterial E3 ubiquitin ligase targets a host protein kinase to disrupt plant immunity
Tracy R. Rosebrock, Lirong Zeng, Jennifer J. Brady, Robert B. Abramovitch, Fangming Xiao & Gregory B. Martin
Nature 448, 370–374
(19 July 2007); doi:10.1038/nature05966
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Threonine phosphorylation post-translationally regulates protein secretion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Joseph D. Mougous, Casey A. Gifford, Talia L. Ramsdell & John J. Mekalanos
Nature Cell Biology 9, 797–803
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1605
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Threonine phosphorylation times bacterial secretion
Hemantha D. Kulasekara & Samuel I. Miller
Nature Cell Biology 9, 734–736
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb0707-734
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The unique role of natural killer T cells in the response to microorganisms
Emmanuel Tupin, Yuki Kinjo & Mitchell Kronenberg
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 405–417
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1657
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Direct extracellular interaction between the early secreted antigen ESAT-6 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and TLR2 inhibits TLR signaling in macrophages
Sushil Kumar Pathak, Sanchita Basu, Kunal Kumar Basu, Anirban Banerjee, Shresh Pathak, Asima Bhattacharyya, Tsuneyasu Kaisho, Manikuntala Kundu & Joyoti Basu
Nature Immunology 8, 610–618
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/ni1468
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Exploitation of structural and regulatory diversity in glutamate racemases
Tomas Lundqvist, Stewart L. Fisher, Gunther Kern, Rutger H. A. Folmer, Yafeng Xue, D. Trevor Newton, Thomas A. Keating, Richard A. Alm & Boudewijn L. M. de Jonge
Nature 447, 817–822
(14 June 2007); doi:10.1038/nature05689
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TH1 cells control themselves by producing interleukin-10
Anne O'Garra & Paulo Vieira
Nature Reviews Immunology 7, 425–428
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nri2097
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Neutralization of staphylococcal enterotoxin B by soluble, high-affinity receptor antagonists
Rebecca A Buonpane, Hywyn R O Churchill, Beenu Moza, Eric J Sundberg, Marnie L Peterson, Patrick M Schlievert & David M Kranz
Nature Medicine 13, 725–729
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1584
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Harnessing calcineurin as a novel anti-infective agent against invasive fungal infections
William J. Steinbach, Jennifer L. Reedy, Robert A. Cramer, Jr, John R. Perfect & Joseph Heitman
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 418–430
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1680
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Mechanosensitive channels in bacteria: signs of closure?
Ian R. Booth, Michelle D. Edwards, Susan Black, Ulrike Schumann & Samantha Miller
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 431–440
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1659
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Diarylquinolines target subunit c of mycobacterial ATP synthase
Anil Koul, Najoua Dendouga, Karen Vergauwen, Brenda Molenberghs, Luc Vranckx, Rudy Willebrords, Zorica Ristic, Holger Lill, Ismet Dorange, Jerome Guillemont, Dirk Bald & Koen Andries
Nature Chemical Biology 3, 323–324
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nchembio884
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Harnessing calcineurin as a novel anti-infective agent against invasive fungal infections
William J. Steinbach, Jennifer L. Reedy, Robert A. Cramer, Jr, John R. Perfect & Joseph Heitman
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 418–430
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1680
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H-NS cooperative binding to high-affinity sites in a regulatory element results in transcriptional silencing
Emeline Bouffartigues, Malcolm Buckle, Cyril Badaut, Andrew Travers & Sylvie Rimsky
Nature Structural & Cell Biology 14, 441–448
(May 2007); doi:10.1038/nsmb1233
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Manipulation of host Kruppel-like factor (KLF) function by exotoxins from diverse bacterial pathogens
Eoin O'Grady, Heidi Mulcahy, Claire Adams, John P. Morrissey & Fergal O'Gara
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 337–341
(May 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1641
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Cyclic AMP-regulated exocytosis of Escherichia coli from infected bladder epithelial cells
Brian L Bishop, Mathew J Duncan, Jeongmin Song, Guojie Li, David Zaas & Soman N Abraham
Nature Medicine 13, 625–630
(May 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1572
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Flushing bacteria out of the bladder
Danelle S Eto & Matthew A Mulvey
Nature Medicine 13, 531–532
(May 2007); doi:10.1038/nm0507-531
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The uncoupled chloride conductance of a bacterial glutamate transporter homolog
Renae M Ryan & Joseph A Mindell
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14, 365–371
(May 2007); doi:10.1038/nsmb1230
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A leak in the EAATs
Christopher Miller
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14, 356–357
(May 2007); doi:10.1038/nsmb0507-356
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Helicobacter pylori infection triggers aberrant expression of activation-induced cytidine deaminase in gastric epithelium
Yuko Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Marusawa, Kazuo Kinoshita, Yoko Endo, Tadayuki Kou, Toshiyuki Morisawa, Takeshi Azuma, Il-Mi Okazaki, Tasuku Honjo & Tsutomu Chiba
Nature Medicine 13, 470–476
(April 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1566
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Providing AID to p53 mutagenesis
Shigeo Takaishi & Timothy C Wang
Nature Medicine 13, 404–406
(April 2007); doi:10.1038/nm0407-404
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Complete genome sequence of the erythromycin-producing bacterium Saccharopolyspora erythraea NRRL23338
Markiyan Oliynyk, Markiyan Samborskyy, John B Lester, Tatiana Mironenko, Nataliya Scott, Shilo Dickens, Stephen F Haydock & Peter F Leadlay
Nature Biotechnology 25, 447–453
(April 2007); doi:10.1038/nbt1297
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Antibiotic production from the ground up
Leonard Katz & Chaitan Khosla
Nature Biotechnology 25, 428–429
(April 2007); doi:10.1038/nbt0407-428
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An anti-infective peptide that selectively modulates the innate immune response
Monisha G Scott, Edie Dullaghan, Neeloffer Mookherjee, Natalie Glavas, Matthew Waldbrook, Annick Thompson, Aikun Wang, Ken Lee, Silvana Doria, Pam Hamill, Jie Jessie Yu, Yuexin Li, Oreola Donini, M Marta Guarna, B Brett Finlay, John R North & Robert E W Hancock
Nature Biotechnology 25, 465–472
(April 2007); doi:10.1038/nbt1288
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Peptidoglycan recognition proteins: pleiotropic sensors and effectors of antimicrobial defences
Julien Royet & Roman Dziarski
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 264–277
(April 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1620
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Focal adhesion: getting a grasp on myxobacterial gliding
Wenyuan Shi and Renate Luxo
Nature Chemical Biology 3, 205–206
(April 2007); doi:10.1038/nchembio0407-205
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Virus trafficking — learning from single-virus tracking
Boerries Brandenburg and Xiaowei Zhuang
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 197–208
(March 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1615
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The road to chromatin — nuclear entry of retroviruses
Youichi Suzuki and Robert Craigie
Nature Reviews Microbiology 5, 187–196
(March 2007); doi:10.1038/nrmicro1579
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A genome-wide association scan of nonsynonymous SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for Crohn disease in ATG16L1
Jochen Hampe, Andre Franke, Philip Rosenstiel, Andreas Till, Markus Teuber, Klaus Huse, Mario Albrecht, Gabriele Mayr, Francisco M De La Vega, Jason Briggs, Simone Günther, Natalie J Prescott, Clive M Onnie, Robert Häsler, Bence Sipos, Ulrich R Fölsch, Thomas Lengauer, Matthias Platzer, Christopher G Mathew, Michael Krawczak & Stefan Schreiber
Nature Genetics 39, 207–211
(February 2007); doi:10.1038/ng1954
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The adaptor protein CARD9 is required for innate immune responses to intracellular pathogens
Yen-Michael S Hsu, Yongliang Zhang, Yun You, Donghai Wang, Hongxiu Li, Omar Duramad, Xiao-Feng Qin, Chen Dong & Xin Lin
Nature Immunology 8, 198–205
(February 2007); doi:10.1038/ni1426
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A pair of 9s: it's in the CARDs
David M Underhill & Takahiro Shimada
Nature Immunology 8, 122–124
(February 2007); doi:10.1038/ni0207-122
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Dectin-1 is required for β-glucan recognition and control of fungal infection
Philip R Taylor, S Vicky Tsoni, Janet A Willment, Kevin M Dennehy, Marcela Rosas, Helen Findon, Ken Haynes, Chad Steele, Marina Botto, Siamon Gordon & Gordon D Brown
Nature Immunology 8, 31–38
(January 2007); doi:10.1038/ni1408
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Dectin-1 is required for host defense against Pneumocystis carinii but not against Candida albicans
Shinobu Saijo, Noriyuki Fujikado, Takahisa Furuta, Soo-hyun Chung, Hayato Kotaki, Keisuke Seki, Katsuko Sudo, Shizuo Akira, Yoshiyuki Adachi, Naohito Ohno, Takeshi Kinjo, Kiwamu Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Kawakami & Yoichiro Iwakura
Nature Immunology 8, 39–46
(January 2007); doi:10.1038/ni1425
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DEteCTINg fungal pathogens
Catherine Dostert & Jürg Tschopp
Nature Immunology 8, 17–18
(January 2007); doi:10.1038/ni0107-17
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