Bacterial transcriptional networks are built on a hierarchy of regulators, on top of which lie
the components of the RNA polymerase (in particular the sigma factors) and the global …

FtnA is the major iron‐storage protein of Escherichia coli accounting for≤ 50% of total
cellular iron. The FtnA gene (ftnA) is induced by iron in an Fe2+–Fur‐dependent fashion …

Piezophiles, by the commonly accepted definition, grow faster under high hydrostatic
pressure (HHP) than under ambient pressure and are believed to exist only in pressurized …

Introduction: Since the first application of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections, the
development and spread of resistance has been a persistent threat. An ever evolving …

Microbial evolution and subsequent species diversification enable bacterial organisms to
perform common biological processes by a variety of means. The epsilonproteobacteria are …

Background Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium that has been
implicated as the leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Metronidazole is currently …

The acquisition of transition metal ions by pathogenic bacteria is crucial to their growth and
survival within the human host, however, the mechanisms of metal ion homeostasis in …

Summary The Escherichia coli Sm‐like host factor I (Hfq) is thought to play direct and
indirect roles in post‐transcriptional regulation by targeting small regulatory RNAs and …

Nitrogen signalling in cyanobacteria involves a complex network in which the availability of
iron plays an important role. In the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 …

Pseudomonas bacteria are widespread and are found in soil and water, as well as
pathogens of both plants and animals. The ability of Pseudomonas to colonize many …