Mostowy Lab

Interspecies quorum sensing signals modulate multicellular organization and enhance contact-dependent antagonism in Vibrio cholerae.

Virgo M, Painter H, Xue S, McClelland HO, Mostowy S, Ho BT

Nature Communications, 2026

Genome sequence of Shigella phage vB_EcoM_SS01.

O'Brien JM, Eerqing N, Mostowy S, Dyson ZA

Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2026, e0017726

Listeria-infected macrophages promote biomechanical alterations in endothelial cell monolayers for transmigration.

Muenkel M, Wright K, Keskin E, Sánchez-Rendón JC, Balmes A, Schäffer TE, Romer F, Lebtig M, Kretschmer D, Loskill P, Mostowy S, Bastounis EE

Cell Reports, 2026, 45 (3), 117031

Menaquinone depletion resensitises bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis.

Wetzel J, Dallow J, Davis E, Pearson WH, Daems S, Govaerts M, Hereijgers J, Sprangers J, Truebody B, Maes V, van Hasselt V, Leemans A, Pujari V, Vos A, Martínez Viturro CM, Enrique Gómez J, Peeters M, Gerber M, Chhabra N, Wouters A, Everaerts M, Painter H, Fathima R, Willcocks SJ, Davies C, Raeymaekers V, Clark TG, Draghia-Akli R, Fletcher H, Van Loock M, Hibberd ML, Mostowy S, Crick DC, Pym AS, Samby K, Jackson P, Trabanco AA, Larrouy-Maumus G, Steyn AJC, Stoops B, Dhar N, Aguilar-Pérez C, Lamprecht DA, Wall RJ, Koul A

BioRxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology, 2026

Shigella flexneri evades septin-mediated cell-autonomous immunity via protein ADP-riboxanation.

Tang Z, Xian W, Özbaykal Güler G, Zhang H, Wang Y, Zhan N, Liu H, You F, Zou Q, Mostowy S, Liu X

Nature Communications, 2026

A public resource of 15 genomically characterized representative strains of Shigella sonnei.

Miles SL, Hawkey J, Vezina B, Torraca V, Jenkins C, Weill FX, Baker S, Baker KS, Mostowy S, Holt KE

Microbial Genomics, 2026, 12 (1)

Why solutions to antimicrobial resistance are urgently needed.

Mostowy S, Duncan KR

Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2025, 18 (12)

The Staphylococcus aureus LXG-domain toxins EsxX and SAR0287 do not promote virulence in a zebrafish larval infection model.

Ulhuq F, Tooke AK, Mendonca C, Casabona G, Habersetzer J, Yang Y, Gomes MC, Alcock F, Mostowy S, Palmer T

Microbiology (Reading, England), 2025, 171 (12)

No guts, no glory: IL-26 in host-microbiota interactions.

Wright K, Mostowy S

The EMBO Journal, 2025

Enhanced virulence and stress tolerance are signatures of epidemiologically successful Shigella sonnei.

Miles SL, Santillo D, Painter H, Wright K, Torraca V, López-Jiménez AT, Virgo M, Matanza XM, Clements A, Jenkins C, Baker S, Baker KS, Cisneros D, Puhar A, Sancho-Shimizu V, Holt KE, Mostowy S

Nature Communications, 2025, 16 (1), 9005