Nucleoid-associated proteins belong to a group of small but abundant proteins in bacterial
cells. These transcription regulators are responsible for many important cellular processes …

Genomes of all organisms are persistently threatened by endogenous and exogenous
assaults. Bacterial mechanisms of genome maintenance must provide protection throughout …

Most bacteria replicate and segregate their DNA concomitantly while growing, before cell
division takes place. How bacteria synchronize these different cell cycle events to ensure …

The ability of the anaerobic gastrointestinal pathogen Clostridioides difficile to survive
outside the host relies on the formation of dormant endospores. Spore formation is …

New protein-fragment complementation assays (PCA) have successfully been developed to
characterize protein–protein interactions in vitro and in vivo. Notably, the NanoBiT …

Clostridioides difficile is an anaerobic, Gram-positive pathogen that is responsible for C.
difficile infection (CDI). To survive in the environment and spread to new hosts, C. difficile …

Their tunable optical properties and versatile surface functionalization have sparked
applications of plasmonic assemblies in the fields of biosensing, nonlinear optics, and …

Yeast two-hybrid approaches, which are based on fusion proteins that must co-localise to
the nucleus to reconstitute the transcriptional activity of GAL4, have greatly contributed to our …

Ribosome assembly cofactors are widely conserved across all domains of life. One such
group, the ribosome-associated GTPases (RA-GTPase), act as molecular switches to …

Endolysin is a phage-encoded cell-wall hydrolase which degrades the peptidoglycan layer
of the bacterial cell wall. The enzyme is often expressed at the late stage of the phage lytic …