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📢 Most-read #mLife @WileyLifeSci papers of 2024–2025!
From food safety & microbiomes to environmental ecology, pathogen genomics, enzyme engineering, and synthetic biology—these highly viewed papers highlight exciting advances across microbiology.
🧵Top 15 highlights below ⬇️
New #mLife study reveals how site-specific mutations in the multidrug efflux transporter CmeB enhance antibiotic resistance in the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter. Structural and functional analyses show how subtle protein changes boost drug export efficiency.
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Prokaryotes face constant viral attacks. A new #mLife review maps the diversity of prokaryotic defense systems and explains how evolutionary arms races with phages drive innovation in microbial immunity. #CRISPR #Phage #Immunity #Evolution
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A #mLife review summarizes how the intracellular pathogen Coxiella burnetii uses its Dot/Icm type IVB secretion system to deliver effector proteins that manipulate host cell pathways, enabling formation of a replicative vacuole and chronic infection.
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A #mLife review explores RNA editing in fungi, focusing on how A-to-I RNA editing mediates an altruistic antiviral defense — sacrificing individual fitness to protect the population—while balancing trade-offs between growth, reproduction, and viral resistance.
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Dual glycosylation of wall teichoic acid (WTA) in serovar 4b Listeria monocytogenes reshapes the O-antigen pattern and significantly affects virulence. A #mLife work highlights how cell-wall sugar modifications tune bacterial pathogenicity.
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🐎 Happy Chinese New Year!
Today, on the 6th day of Chinese New Year in the Year of the Horse (2026), we extend our heartfelt thanks to #mLife editors, authors, reviewers & readers worldwide.
May this year bring health, success & bold breakthroughs—full speed ahead!
New in #mLife!
Scientists engineered CASANOVA‑A5, a blue‑light controllable anti‑CRISPR tool based on AcrIIA5, to switch CRISPR‑Cas9 editing on/off in a light‑dependent manner — and it works across multiple Cas9 orthologs!
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New in #mLife
Using wastewater RNA and machine learning, this work developed a predictive model that showed significant underreporting of COVID-19 cases in a university community after testing mandates were lifted — highlighting the power of wastewater-based epidemiology.
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New #mLife study reveals how salinization alters the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationship: low salinity has little effect, but high salinity weakens BEF relationships, with sharp drops in yield at low richness under hypersaline stress.
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New in #mLife! Xanthomonas campestris produces the plant hormone IAA. IAA modulates branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) synthesis and reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, thereby shaping pathogen viability and virulence in cabbage. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/mlf2...
Explore the Cover Story in #mLife Vol. 4, Issue 6!
The conserved protein ZapA uses a two-pronged mechanism to organize FtsZ filaments into the bacterial Z ring, offering novel mechanistic insights with structural and genetic support of bacterial cell division.
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New in #mLife! RebA is an essential for the RNase E regulator in Anabaena PCC 7120. Without RebA, nitrogen fixation fails despite heterocyst formation, revealing a critical post‑transcriptional control over RNA metabolism and nitrogen use. @wileylifesci.bsky.social
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Insightful Review in #mLife!
Emerging single-cell sequencing and imaging technologies now allow for the profiling of microbial heterogeneity with unprecedented resolution—capturing phenotypic and spatial diversity within microbial communities.
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iDOM: Statistical analysis of dissolved organic matter characterized by high‐resolution mass spectrometry #mLife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
