Bacteria have evolved many different signal transduction systems that sense signals and
generate a variety of responses. Generally, most abundant are transcriptional regulators …

Staphylococcus aureus is an eminent human pathogen that can colonize the human host
and cause severe life-threatening illnesses. This bacterium can reside in and infect a wide …

2017 marks the 60th anniversary of Krebs' seminal paper on the glyoxylate shunt (and
coincidentally, also the 80th anniversary of his discovery of the citric acid cycle). Sixty years …

Bacterial gene expression is orchestrated by numerous transcription factors (TFs).
Elucidating how gene expression is regulated is fundamental to understanding bacterial …

The use of renewable waste feedstocks is an environment‐friendly choice contributing to the
reduction of waste treatment costs and increasing the economic value of industrial by …

For prototrophic bacteria, central metabolism (ie, glycolysis, the pentose phosphate
pathway, and the Krebs cycle) supplies the 13 biosynthetic intermediates necessary to …

While the natural niches of the soil bacterium P seudomonas putida are unlikely to include
significant amounts of free glycerol as a growth substrate, this bacterium is genetically …

Owing to the ability for efficient electric interaction with electrodes, electrochemically active
bacteria (EAB) attract considerable attention in biotechnology. These bacteria are involved …

Chemotaxis is a fundamental bacterial response mechanism to changes in chemical
gradients of specific molecules known as chemoattractant or chemorepellent. The …

Biomass-derived chemicals can offer unique chemical functionality relative to petroleum-
derived building blocks. To this end, here we report that β-ketoadipic acid (βKA), a C6 diacid …