Gregory Putzel

This study shows that collagen binding adhesin (Cna) in Staphylococcus aureus reduces skin infection severity by binding to C1q and limiting inflammation.

The paper evaluates Dorado basecalling for nanopore DRS to detect m6A modifications in RNA, finding that stringent filtering improves accuracy and revealing cell-type differences in m6A proportions at conserved sites.

This study identifies a prophage-encoded methyltransferase, pamA, that enhances virulence in CA-MRSA by epigenetically upregulating fnbA, promoting biofilm formation and abscess size.

This study identifies the gut as a major reservoir of Staphylococcus aureus that can be transmitted to the skin and worsen atopic dermatitis.

The paper identifies CoaX, a pseudokinase, and pantothenate as regulators of proteasomal degradation of the pantothenate synthesis enzyme PanB in M. tuberculosis.

LongStrain improves strain-level analysis in longitudinal metagenomic data by jointly modeling strain proportions and genomic variants, outperforming existing methods in variant calling and proportion estimation.

This study shows female mice clear MRSA from the gut faster than males, relying on gut microbiota and Th17 cells, while ovariectomy reduces this resistance.