Emerging models of the bacterial nucleoid show that nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs)
and transcription contribute in combination to the dynamic nature of nucleoid structure …

Plant growth-promoting bacteria that contain the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-
carboxylate (ACC) deaminase facilitate plant growth and development by decreasing plant …

To date, there has been only limited commercial use of plant growth-promoting bacteria in
agriculture, horticulture, and silviculture. However, with recent progress toward …

Inheritable bacterial defence systems against phage infection and foreign DNA, termed
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), consist of cas protein …

Genome analysis has revealed that members of the Lrp family of transcriptional regulators
are widely distributed among prokaryotes, both bacteria and archaea. The archetype …

Contrary to the traditional view that bacterial populations are clonal, single-cell analysis
reveals that phenotypic heterogeneity is common in bacteria. Formation of distinct bacterial …

Streptomyces are Gram-positive microorganisms able to adapt and respond to different
environmental conditions. It is the largest genus of Actinobacteria comprising over 900 …

The bacterial genome is folded into a compact structure called the nucleoid. Considerable
compaction of the DNA molecule is required in order to reduce its volume below that of the …

The genomic DNA of all organisms across the three kingdoms of life needs to be compacted
and functionally organized. Key players in these processes are DNA supercoiling …

The ACT domain is a structural motif in proteins of 70–80 amino acids that is one of a
growing number of different intracellular small molecule binding domains that function in the …