Bacterial conjugation, also referred to as bacterial sex, is a major horizontal gene transfer
mechanism through which DNA is transferred from a donor to a recipient bacterium by direct …

Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the structural and molecular
biology of type IV secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria. The latest advances have …

Biofilms are community architectures adopted by bacteria inclusive of a self-formed
extracellular matrix that protects resident bacteria from diverse environmental stresses and …

Improvements in DNA synthesis and sequencing have underpinned comprehensive
assessment of gene function in bacteria and eukaryotes. Genome-wide analyses require …

Bacterial chromosomes are folded to compact DNA and facilitate cellular processes.
Studying model bacteria has revealed aspects of chromosome folding that are applicable to …

Denitrification is a distinct means of energy conservation, making use of N oxides as
terminal electron acceptors for cellular bioenergetics under anaerobic, microaerophilic, and …

Specific interactions between proteins and DNA are fundamental to many biological
processes. In this review, we provide a revised view of protein-DNA interactions that …

We present a comprehensive software package, 3DNA, for the analysis, reconstruction and
visualization of three‐dimensional nucleic acid structures. Starting from a coordinate file in …

Bacterial conjugation is one of the main mechanisms for horizontal gene transfer. It
constitutes a key element in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance and virulence genes to …

Gene expression occurs in two essential steps: transcription and translation. In bacteria, the
two processes are tightly coupled in time and space, and highly regulated. Tight regulation …