Flavonoids are a category of plant-derived compounds which exhibit a large number of
health-related effects. One of the most well-known and studied flavonoids is kaempferol …

Small RNAs are ubiquitously present regulators in all kingdoms of life. Most bacterial and
archaeal small RNAs (sRNAs) act by antisense mechanisms on multiple target mRNAs …

For decades, identifying the regions of a bacterial chromosome that are necessary for
viability has relied on mapping integration sites in libraries of random transposon mutants to …

TubercuList (http://tuberculist. epfl. ch/), the relational database that presents genome-
derived information about H37Rv, the paradigm strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has …

Campylobacter jejuni is currently the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans.
Comparison of multiple Campylobacter strains revealed a high genetic and phenotypic …

Identifying genomic elements required for viability is central to our understanding of the
basic physiology of bacterial pathogens. Recently, the combination of high-density …

RNA sequencing provides a new perspective on the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
by revealing an extensive presence of non-coding RNA, including long 5'and 3'untranslated …

The PhoPR two-component system is essential for virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
where it controls expression of approximately 2% of the genes, including those for the ESX-1 …

Sequencing-based studies have illuminated increased transcriptional complexity within the
genome structure of bacteria and have resulted in the identification of many small regulatory …

Most of the sequenced bacterial genomes contain a gene encoding a protein known as Hfq
that resembles the eukaryotic RNA-binding proteins of the LSm family. It was originally …