Bacterial Stress Responses: What Doesn't Kill Them Can Make Them Stronger | PLOS Biology
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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 …

Highlights•Heterogeneity in phenotype and growth rate of single cells affect stress
survival.•Single-cell stress responses in biofilms and interspecies interactions can alter …

The ability to monitor the environment for toxic chemical and physical disturbances is
essential for bacteria that live in dynamic environments. The fundamental sensing …

Bacterial populations that are exposed to rapidly changing and sometimes hostile
environments constantly switch between growth, survival, and death. Understanding …

Stress is an inextricable aspect of life, and stress biology has been a field of intensive study
over the last 200–300 years. In human psychology, we consider a stress-free condition to be …

Microorganisms have a variety of evolutionary adaptations and physiological acclimation
mechanisms that allow them to survive and remain active in the face of environmental stress …

The ability of bacteria to respond to changes in their environment is critical to their survival,
allowing them to withstand stress, form complex communities, and induce virulence …

Bacteria thrive in virtually all environments. Like all other living organisms, bacteria may
encounter various types of stresses, to which cells need to adapt. In this chapter, we …

Bacteria can be adapted to adverse and detrimental conditions that induce general and
specific responses to DNA damage as well as acid, heat, cold, starvation, oxidative …