Environmental factors like temperature, pressure, and pH partly shaped the evolution of life.
As life progressed, new stressors (eg, poisons and antibiotics) arose as part of an arms race …

Bacterial genes that change in expression upon environmental disturbance have commonly
been seen as those that must also phenotypically matter. However, several studies suggest …

Bacteria have evolved diverse mechanisms to survive environments with antibiotics.
Temperature is both a key factor that affects the survival of bacteria in the presence of …

Microbes exhibit short and long term responses when exposed to challenging
environmental conditions. To what extent these responses are correlated, what their …

Current approaches explore bacterial genes that change transcriptionally upon stress
exposure as diagnostics to predict antibiotic sensitivity. However, transcriptional changes …

Stress response helps microorganisms survive extreme environmental conditions and host
immunity, making them more virulent or drug resistant. Although both reductionist …

Responses to extracellular stress directly confer survival fitness by means of complex
regulatory networks. Despite their complexity, the networks must be evolvable because of …

Gain new insight on utilizing bacterial stress responses to better combat bacterial infection
with antibiotics and improve biotechnology.• Reviews the vast number of new findings that …

Bacterial populations have a remarkable capacity to cope with extreme environmental
fluctuations in their natural environments. In certain cases, adaptation to one stressful …

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