Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are important starter, commensal, or pathogenic microorganisms.
The stress physiology of LAB has been studied in depth for over 2 decades, fueled mostly by …

Bacteria adapt to environmental stimuli by adjusting their transcriptomes in a complex
manner, the full potential of which has yet to be established for any individual bacterial …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) constitute a heterogeneous group of bacteria that are traditionally
used to produce fermented foods. The industrialization of food bio-transformations increased …

Environmental stress responses in Lactobacillus, which have been investigated mainly by
proteomics approaches, are reviewed. The physiological and molecular mechanisms of …

One of the strongest and most noticeable responses of Bacillus subtilis cells to a range of
stress and starvation stimuli is the dramatic induction of about 150 SigB-dependent general …

Comparative genomics is the cornerstone of identification of gene functions. The immense
number of living organisms precludes experimental identification of functions except in a …

Sigma factors provide promoter recognition specificity to RNA polymerase holoenzyme,
contribute to DNA strand separation, and then dissociate from the core enzyme following …

In this report, a genome-scale reconstruction of Bacillus subtilis metabolism and its iterative
development based on the combination of genomic, biochemical, and physiological …

The bacterial cell envelope is the first and major line of defence against threats from the
environment. It is an essential and yet vulnerable structure that gives the cell its shape and …

The difficulty associated with the cultivation of most microorganisms and the complexity of
natural microbial assemblages, such as marine plankton or human microbiome, hinder …