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 …

Transcriptional activation of many bacterial promoters in their natural environment is not a
simple on/off decision. The expression of cognate genes is integrated in layers of iterative …

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 …

Deciphering the complex interconnecting bacterial responses to the presence of aromatic
compounds is required to gain an integrated understanding of how aromatic catabolic …

Alternative σ-factors of bacteria bind core RNA polymerase to program the specific promoter
selectivity of the holoenzyme. Signal-responsive changes in the availability of different σ …

Crc protein is a global regulator involved in catabolite repression control of several
pathways for the assimilation of carbon sources in pseudomonads when other preferred …

Quorum sensing is a process of cell–cell communication that bacteria use to relay
information to one another about the cell density and species composition of the bacterial …

The RNA polymerase‐binding protein DksA is a cofactor required for guanosine
tetraphosphate (ppGpp)‐responsive control of transcription from σ70 promoters. Here we …

Expression of the genes of the alkane degradation pathway encoded in the Pseudomonas
putida OCT plasmid are subject to negative and dominant global control depending on the …

P seudomonas putida synthesizes polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) as storage compounds.
PHA synthesis is more active when the carbon source is in excess and the nitrogen source …