Emerging contaminants (ECs) are compounds that recently have been shown to occur
widely in the environment and identified as being a potential environmental or public health …

Quorum sensing is a cell-cell communication process that bacteria use to transition between
individual and social lifestyles. In vibrios, homologous small RNAs called the Qrr sRNAs …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic human pathogen that secretes the
exopolysaccharide alginate during infection of the respiratory tract of individuals afflicted …

A key component of colonization, biofilm formation, and protection of the opportunistic
human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the biosynthesis of the exopolysaccharide …

OprF is the major outer membrane porin in bacteria belonging to the Pseudomonas genus.
In previous studies, we have shown that OprF is required for full virulence expression of the …

The ability to form biofilms is critical for environmental survival and transmission of Vibrio
cholerae, a facultative human pathogen responsible for the disease cholera. Biofilm …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 encodes two outer membrane receptors, PhuR
(Pseudomonas heme uptake) and HasR (heme assimilation system). The HasR and PhuR …

Two-component systems play important roles in the physiology of many bacterial pathogens.
Vibrio cholerae's CarRS two-component regulatory system negatively regulates expression …

In its most widespread meaning, synthetic biology has been defined as the engineering of
biology (1, 2). There are two sides to this definition. The first deals with fundamental science …

Vibrio cholerae O1 is a natural inhabitant of aquatic environments and causes the diarrheal
disease, cholera. Two of its primary virulence regulators, TcpP and ToxR, are localized in …