Nature Microbiology
An online-only monthly journal interested in all aspects of microorganisms, be it their evolution, physiology and cell biology; their interactions with each other, with a host or with an environment; or their societal significance.
Harnessing functions of the microbiota to combat fungal pathogens
Yun Chen1, Sunde Xu1, Tomislav Cernava2, Yang Bai3
1State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Department of Plant Protection, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
2Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.
3State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine-induced memory T cells: strong preserved immune responses to Omicron
We found that COVID-19 RNA vaccine-induced memory T cells exhibit preserved responses to the Omicron variant. These findings suggest that memory T cells will exert effector functions against the Omicron variant during breakthrough infections among individuals immunized with COVID-19 vaccines.