Pathogenic bacteria must withstand diverse host environments during infection.
Environmental signals, such as pH, temperature, nutrient limitation, etc., not only trigger …

Climate change is expected to have a drastic effect on aquaculture worldwide. As we move
forward with the agenda to increase and diversify aquaculture production, rising …

Bacteria use complex strategies to coordinate temperature-dependent gene expression.
Many genes encoding heat shock proteins and virulence factors are regulated by …

The flagellum and the injectisome are two of the most complex and fascinating bacterial
nanomachines. At their core, they share a type III secretion system (T3SS), a transmembrane …

In Listeria monocytogenes, virulence genes are maximally expressed at 37° C, almost silent
at 30° C and controlled by PrfA, a transcriptional activator whose expression is …

The heat-shock response is a mechanism of cellular protection against sudden adverse
environmental growth conditions and results in the prompt production of various heat-shock …

The effect of the bacterial heat-stable nucleoid-structuring (H-NS) protein on gene
expression is overwhelmingly negative and extends throughout the genome, pointing to an …

Lateral gene transfer has played a prominent role in bacterial evolution, but the mechanisms
allowing bacteria to tolerate the acquisition of foreign DNA have been incompletely defined …

H-NS and Lsr2 are nucleoid-associated proteins from Gram-negative bacteria and
Mycobacteria, respectively, that play an important role in the silencing of horizontally …

The H-NS nucleoid-associated DNA-binding protein is an important global repressor of
transcription in Gram-negative bacteria. Recently, H-NS has been implicated in the process …