An important link between the environment and the physiological state of bacteria is the
regulation of the transcription of a large number of genes by global transcription factors. One …

Biofilms are the prevailing lifestyle of bacteria in most natural environments. This is because
living in a biofilm gives bacteria a number of advantages. When the environment is …

Flagellar biosynthesis and motility are subject to a four-tiered transcriptional regulatory
circuit in Pseudomonas, and the master regulator FleQ appears to be the highest-level …

Bacterial motility plays a crucial role in competitiveness and colonization in the rhizosphere.
In this work, Chromatin ImmunoPrecipitation Sequencing (ChIP-seq) analysis has been …

Mechanisms governing biofilm formation have generated considerable interest in recent
years, yet comparative analyses of processes for bacterial establishment on abiotic and …

Bacteria form biofilm as a response to a number of environmental signals that are mediated
by global transcription regulators and alarmones. Here we report the involvement of the …

Factor for inversion stimulation (Fis) is a versatile DNA binding protein that plays an
important role in coordinating bacterial global gene expression in response to growth …

Motility is a key trait for rhizosphere colonization by Pseudomonas fluorescens. Mutants with
reduced motility are poor competitors, and hypermotile, more competitive phenotypic …

We have investigated the role of LapF, one of the two largest proteins encoded in the
genome of Pseudomonas putida KT2440, in bacterial colonization of solid surfaces. LapF is …

Soil bacteria such as pseudomonads may reduce pathogen pressure for plants, both by
activating plant defence mechanisms and by inhibiting pathogens directly due to the …