Fluctuations in environmental osmolarity are ubiquitous stress factors in many natural
habitats of microorganisms, as they inevitably trigger osmotically instigated fluxes of water …

Low-temperature stresses, also referred to as cold temperature stresses, including chilling
and freezing temperatures, are among the major abiotic stresses that severely reduce plant …

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are continuously produced by Gram-negative bacteria
and are increasingly recognized as ubiquitous mediators of bacterial physiology. In …

Many different protein domains are conserved among numerous species, but their function
remains obscure. Proteins with DUF1127 domains number> 17 000 in current databases …

Ribosome-mediated transcription attenuation is a basic posttranscriptional regulation
mechanism in bacteria. Liberated attenuator RNAs arising in this process are generally …

The nitrogen (N) status transduced via the NtrBC two-component system is a major signaling
cue in the root nodule endosymbiosis of diazotrophic rhizobia with legumes. NtrBC is …

Mesorhizobium is a genus of soil bacteria, some isolates of which form an endosymbiotic
relationship with diverse legumes of the Loteae tribe. The symbiotic genes of these …

Small RNAs (sRNAs) are universal posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression and
hundreds of sRNAs are frequently found in each and every bacterium. In order to coordinate …

Small regulatory RNAs play an important role in the adaptation to changing conditions.
Here, we describe a differentially expressed small regulatory RNA (sRNA) that affects …

Small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) are ubiquitous components of bacterial adaptive
regulatory networks underlying stress responses and chronic intracellular infection of …