Abstract d-Glucaric acid (GA) is a value-added chemical produced from biomass, and has
potential applications as a versatile platform chemical, food additive, metal sequestering …

Acinetobacter baumannii is a pathogen of increasing clinical importance worldwide,
especially given its ability to readily acquire resistance determinants. Motile strains of this …

Bacterial biofilm is an emerging form of life that involves cell populations living embedded in
a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). Currently, little is known …

Abstract Trehalose‐6‐phosphate synthase (TPS) is a key enzyme that participates in
trehalose metabolism, which can synthesize trehalose in a two‐step pathway with trehalose …

The global regulator Crp-like protein (Clp) is positively involved in the production of
virulence factors in some of the Xanthomonas spp. However, the functional importance of …

Currently, huanglongbing is the most damaging disease of citrus causing huge economic
losses. The disease is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter …

Two-component systems (TCSs)(cognate sensor histidine kinase/response regulator pair,
HK/RR) play a crucial role in bacterial adaptation, survival, and productive colonization. An …

In Ralstonia solanacearum, a devastating phytopathogen whose metabolism is poorly
understood, we observed that the Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway and nonoxidative pentose …

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola (Xoc) is a notorious plant pathogen. Like most bacterial
pathogens, Xoc has evolved a complex regulatory network to modulate the expression of …

Acetyltransferases catalyze an important process for sugar or protein modification. In the
genome of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), the causal agent of bacterial blight of rice …