The rhizobium–legume symbiosis is a major source of fixed nitrogen (ammonia) in the
biosphere. The potential for this process to increase agricultural yield while reducing the …

A large proportion of genes within a genome encode proteins that play a role in metabolism.
The Alphaproteobacteria are a ubiquitous group of bacteria that play a major role in a …

The bacterial Sm protein and RNA chaperone Hfq stabilizes small noncoding RNAs
(sRNAs) and facilitates their annealing to mRNA targets involved in stress tolerance and …

Unlike most Pseudomonas, the root-associated bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501
fixes nitrogen after the horizontal acquisition of a nitrogen-fixing (nif) island. A genome-wide …

Gene expression strategies ensuring bacterial survival and competitiveness rely on cis‐and
trans‐acting RNA‐regulators (riboregulators). Among the cis‐acting riboregulators are …

Mechanisms adjusting replication initiation and cell cycle progression in response to
environmental conditions are crucial for microbial survival. Functional characterization of the …

Bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas consume preferred carbon substrates in nearly reverse
order to that of enterobacteria, and this process is controlled by RNA-binding translational …

Quorum sensing is a cell density-dependent communication system of bacteria relying on
autoinducer molecules. During the analysis of the post-transcriptional regulation of quorum …

The symbiotic α-rhizobia Sinorhizobium meliloti, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Rhizobium etli
and the related plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens are important model organisms …

Structural and biochemical features suggest that the almost ubiquitous bacterial YbeY
protein may serve catalytic and/or Hfq-like protective functions central to small RNA (sRNA) …