Bacteria communicate with one another using chemical signal molecules. As in higher
organisms, the information supplied by these molecules is critical for synchronizing the …

It has become increasingly and widely recognised that bacteria do not exist as solitary cells,
but are colonial organisms that exploit elaborate systems of intercellular communication to …

Bacteria use a variety of means to communicate with one another and with their eukaryotic
hosts. In some cases, social interactions allow bacteria to synchronize the behavior of all of …

Two-component signal-transducing systems are ubiquitously distributed communication
interfaces in bacteria. They consist of a histidine kinase that senses a specific environmental …

Bacteria use type IV secretion systems for two fundamental objectives related to
pathogenesis—genetic exchange and the delivery of effector molecules to eukaryotic target …

The bacterial type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) translocate DNA and protein substrates to
bacterial or eukaryotic target cells generally by a mechanism dependent on direct cell-to-cell …

RNA interference (RNA i) has emerged as a powerful genetic tool for scientific research over
the past several years. It has been utilized not only in fundamental research for the …

▪ Abstract Quorum sensing (QS) allows bacteria to assess their local population density
and/or physical confinement via the secretion and detection of small, diffusible signal …

The 5.67-megabase genome of the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58
consists of a circular chromosome, a linear chromosome, and two plasmids. Extensive …

In the era of functional genomics, the need for tools to perform large-scale targeted and
random mutagenesis is increasing. A potential tool is Agrobacterium-mediated fungal …