Acinetobacter occupies an important position in nature because of its ubiquitous presence in
diverse environments such as soils, fresh water, oceans, sediments, and contaminated sites …

Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a global threat to human health. Natural
transformation is an important pathway for horizontal gene transfer, which facilitates the …

Lignin represents an untapped resource in lignocellulosic biomass, primarily due to its
recalcitrance to depolymerization and its intrinsic heterogeneity. In Nature, microorganisms …

Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 is a non-pathogenic soil bacterium known for its metabolic
diversity and high natural transformation and recombination efficiency. For these features, A …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a major role in the spread of antibiotic resistance. Of
particular concern are Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria, which recently emerged as global …

The emergence of Acinetobacter baumannii as an increasingly multidrug-resistant
nosocomial pathogen largely relies on acquisition of resistance genes via horizontal gene …

A toxicity biosensor Acinetobacter baylyi Tox2 was constructed with the host strain A. baylyi
ADP1 harboring a new and medium-copy-number plasmid pWH1274_lux, and was applied …

Experimental evolution is a critical tool in many disciplines, including metabolic engineering
and synthetic biology. However, current methods rely on the chance occurrence of a key …

Antibiotics are essential for modern medicine, they are employed frequently in hospitals and,
therefore, present in hospital wastewater. Even in concentrations, that are lower than the …

Mutant phenotype analysis of bacteria has been revolutionized by genome-scale screening
procedures, but essential genes have been left out of such studies because mutants are …