Flavin coenzymes play a variety of roles in biological systems. This Perspective highlights
the chemical versatility of flavins by reviewing research on five flavoenzymes that have been …

▪ Abstract Carbohydrates are highly abundant biomolecules found extensively in nature.
Besides playing important roles in energy storage and supply, they often serve as essential …

Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates display variation in colony morphology, alternating
between opaque (OP) and translucent (TR) cell types. Phase variation is the consequence …

Recently we described the isolation of spontaneous bacteriophage K139-resistant Vibrio
cholerae O1 El Tor mutants. In this study, we identified phage-resistant isolates with intact O …

The emergence of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal during 1992–1993 was associated with
large epidemics of cholera in India and Bangladesh and, initially, with a total displacement …

The environmental reservoirs for Vibrio cholerae are natural aquatic habitats, where it
colonizes the chitinous exoskeletons of copepod molts. Growth of V. cholerae on a chitin …

Cholera is a life-threatening infectious disease that remains an important public health issue
in several low and middle-income countries. In 1992, a newly identified O139 Vibrio …

The novel epidemic strain Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal originated from a seventh-pandemic
O1 El Tor strain by antigenic shift resulting from homologous recombination-mediated …

We provide here an overview of our present understanding of the distribution of different
insertion sequences (ISs) within bacterial genomes (both chromosomes and plasmids). This …

Vibrio anguillarum, part of the normal flora of the aquatic milieu, causes a fatal haemorrhagic
septicaemia in marine fish. In this study, a rainbow trout model was used to characterize the …