Automation is playing an increasingly significant role in synthetic biology. Groundbreaking
technologies, developed over the past 20 years, have enormously accelerated the …

Bacterial strain typing, or identifying bacteria at the strain level, is particularly important for
diagnosis, treatment, and epidemiological surveillance of bacterial infections. This is …

Protein levels have been shown to vary substantially between individual cells in clonal
populations. In prokaryotes, the contribution to such fluctuations from the inherent …

Much of the information available about factors that affect mRNA decay in Escherichia coli,
and by inference in other bacteria, has been gleaned from study of less than 25 of the≈ …

Abstract EcoCyc (http://EcoCyc. org) is a comprehensive model organism database for
Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655. From the scientific literature, EcoCyc captures the functions …

The genome-wide transcription profile of Escherichia coli cells treated with hydrogen
peroxide was examined with a DNA microarray composed of 4,169 E. coli open reading …

Biodegradation can achieve complete and cost-effective elimination of aromatic pollutants
through harnessing diverse microbial metabolic processes. Aromatics biodegradation plays …

Overflow metabolism in the form of aerobic acetate excretion by Escherichia coli is an
important physiological characteristic of this common industrial microorganism. Although …

Nitrogen regulatory protein C (NtrC) of enteric bacteria activates transcription of
genes/operons whose products minimize the slowing of growth under nitrogen-limiting …

Even though significant advances have been made in understanding microbial diversity,
most microorganisms are still only characterized by'molecular fingerprints' and have resisted …