In every bacterium, nucleoid‐associated proteins (NAPs) play crucial roles in chromosome
organization, replication, repair, gene expression, and other DNA transactions. Their central …

Bacteria use population heterogeneity, the presence of more than one phenotypic variant in
a clonal population, to endure diverse environmental challenges–a 'bet-hedging'strategy …

Antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis exclusively originates from
chromosomal mutations, either during normal DNA replication or under stress, when the …

Mycobacterium abscessus is a non-tuberculous mycobacterium, causing lung infections in
cystic fibrosis patients. During pulmonary infection, M. abscessus switches from smooth …

Mycobacterium abscessus infections are emerging in cystic fibrosis patients, and treatment
success rate in these patients is only 33% due to extreme antibiotic resistance. Thus, new …

Virus-borne auxiliary genes have been demonstrated to influence their hosts' characteristics
and flexibility, resulting in an elevated ability to withstand diverse conditions and …

Bacterial biofilms are a consortium of bacteria that are strongly bound to each other and the
surface on which they developed irreversibly. Bacteria can survive adverse environmental …

Bacterial adaptation to cold stress requires wide transcriptional reprogramming. However,
the knowledge of molecular mechanisms underlying the cold stress response of …

Insertion sequences (ISs) exist widely in bacterial genomes, but their roles in the evolution of
bacterial antiphage defense remain to be clarified. Here, we report that, under the pressure …

Nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) crucially contribute to organizing bacterial chromatin
and regulating gene expression. Among the most highly expressed NAPs are the HU and …