Many bacterial species have been found to exist in a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state
since its discovery in 1982. VBNC cells are characterized by a loss of culturability on routine …

One of the most important achievements of bacteria is its capability to adapt to the changing
conditions of the environment. The competition for nutrients with other microorganisms …

Communities of microscopic plant life, or phytoplankton, dominate the Earth's aquatic
ecosystems. This important new book by Colin Reynolds covers the adaptations, physiology …

Despite longstanding appreciation of gene expression heterogeneity in isogenic bacterial
populations, affordable and scalable technologies for studying single bacterial cells have …

▪ Abstract Inorganic polyphosphate (poly P) is a chain of tens or many hundreds of
phosphate (Pi) residues linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds. Despite inorganic …

Conditions that sustain constant bacterial growth are seldom found in nature. Oligotrophic
environments and competition among microorganisms force bacteria to be able to adapt …

▪ Abstract Promoter recognition in eubacteria is carried out by the initiation factor sigma,
which binds RNA polymerase and initiates transcription. Cells have one housekeeping …

The σS (RpoS) subunit of RNA polymerase is the master regulator of the general stress
response in Escherichia coli and related bacteria. While rapidly growing cells contain very …

The stringent response to amino acid starvation, whereby stable RNA synthesis is curtailed
in favour of transcription of amino acid biosynthetic genes, is controlled by the alarmone …

The small nucleotide ppGpp acts as a global regulator of gene expression in bacteria.
Proteomic analysis of cells lacking ppGpp has shown that this nucleotide might affect many …