Networks of molecular regulators are often the primary objects of focus in the study of gene
regulation, with the machinery of protein synthesis tacitly relegated to the background …

Over the past decades, our understanding of microbial metabolism has increased
dramatically. Metabolomics, a family of techniques that are used to measure the quantities of …

Microbial strategies for resource use are an essential determinant of their fitness in complex
habitats. When facing environments with multiple nutrients, microbes often use them …

Unlike their natural counterparts, synthetic genetic circuits are usually fragile in the face of
environmental perturbations and genetic mutations. Several theoretical robust genetic …

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 …

Many bacterial species have biotechnological applications, for example in the production of
compounds of interest by fermentation or biotransformation, the handling of waste and the …

Bacterial growth often alters the environment, which in turn can impact interspecies
interactions among bacteria. Here, we used an in vitro batch system containing mucin beads …

Cells regulate metabolic fluxes by changing enzyme levels according to their needs, but
how do they regulate something that cannot be measured directly? In this issue of Nature …

This study focuses on developing a mathematical model to assess interaction among
acidogenic bacteria during the anaerobic degradation of two substrates. Clostridium …

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is an acidophilic chemolithoautotroph that plays an important
role in biogeochemical iron and sulfur cycling and is a member of the consortia used in …