Often referred to as the “building blocks of proteins”, the 20 canonical proteinogenic amino
acids are ubiquitous in biological systems as the functional units in proteins. Sometimes …

Pollution of soil and water environments by crude oil has been, and is still today, an
important problem. Crude oil is a complex mixture of thousands of compounds. Among them …

Metabolically versatile free-living bacteria have global regulation systems that allow cells to
selectively assimilate a preferred compound among a mixture of several potential carbon …

Since their discovery many decades ago, Pseudomonas putida and related subspecies
have been intensively studied with regard to their potential application in industrial …

It is generally assumed that antibiotics and resistance determinants are the task forces of a
biological warfare in which each resistance determinant counteracts the activity of a specific …

The development of antibiotic resistance is usually associated with genetic changes, either
to the acquisition of resistance genes, or to mutations in elements relevant for the activity of …

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) actively colonize the soil portion under the
influence of plant roots, called the rhizosphere. Many plant-beneficial Pseudomonas spp …

In the metabolically versatile bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the RNA-binding protein
Crc is involved in catabolite repression of a range of degradative genes, such as amiE …

Aminoglycosides (AGs) are long-known molecules successfully used against Gram-negative
pathogens. While their use declined with the discovery of new antibiotics, they are now …

Carbon catabolite repression refers to the preference of microbes to metabolize certain
growth substrates over others in response to a variety of regulatory mechanisms. Such …