Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a huge challenge to the effective treatment of
infectious diseases. Aside from a modest number of novel anti‐infective agents, very few …

The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, like all members of the genus
Pseudomonas, has the capacity to thrive in very different environments, ranging from water …

Iron acquisition is an essential aspect of cell physiology for most bacteria. Although much is
known about how bacteria initially recognize the various iron sources they can encounter …

Biofilm formation is one of the resistance mechanisms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa against
antimicrobial compounds. Biofilm formation also characterizes for the infection and …

Environmental and pathogenic microbes produce siderophores as small iron-binding
molecules to scavenge iron from natural environments. It is common for microbes to produce …

Cooperative behavior, the costly provision of benefits to others, is common across all
domains of life. This review article discusses cooperative behavior in the microbial world …

Abstract Background The opportunistic pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa is well known
for its environmental and metabolic versatility, yet many of the functions of its gene-products …

Fluorescent pseudomonads produce and secrete a siderophore termed pyoverdine to
capture iron when it becomes scarce. The molecular basis of pyoverdine secretion is only …

Iron is an essential nutrient for nearly all forms of life, although scarcely available due to its
poor solubility in nature and complex formation in higher eukaryotes. Microorganisms have …

Abstract 'Evolutionary medicine'has been proposed as an alternative treatment of infectious
diseases in response to the emergence of multidrug resistant bacterial pathogens and to the …