Microbial communities enmeshed in a matrix of macromolecules, termed as biofilms, are the
natural setting of bacteria. Exopolysaccharide is a critical matrix component of biofilms …

Most bacterial pathogens have the remarkable ability to flourish in the external environment
and in specialized host niches. This ability requires their metabolism, physiology, and …

The sequence-specific RNA binding protein CsrA is employed by diverse bacteria in the
posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression. Its binding interactions with RNA have …

Extracellular polysaccharides are important components of biofilms. In non‐mucoid
Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, the Pel and Psl polysaccharides are major structural …

Originally described as a repressor of gene expression in the stationary phase of growth,
CsrA (RsmA) regulates primary and secondary metabolic pathways, biofilm formation …

The carbon storage regulator (Csr) or repressor of stationary phase metabolites (Rsm)
system of Gammaproteobacteria is among the most complex and best-studied …

Csr is a conserved global regulatory system that controls expression of several hundred E
scherichia coli genes. CsrA protein represses translation of numerous genes by binding to …

Spirochete motility is enigmatic: It differs from the motility of most other bacteria in that the
entire bacterium is involved in translocation in the absence of external appendages. Using …

Global regulation allows bacteria to rapidly modulate the expression of a large variety of
unrelated genes in response to environmental changes. Global regulators act at different …

Many bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) regulate gene expression through base-pairing with
mRNAs, and it has been assumed that these sRNAs act solely by this one mechanism. Here …