N 2 O is a potent greenhouse gas and stratospheric reactant that has been steadily on the
rise since the beginning of industrialization. It is an obligatory inorganic metabolite of …

Cholera, a severe disease caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria, has had a central role in the
history of infectious disease research. The cholera studies of John Snow and Robert Koch …

Vibrio cholerae is a gram-negative bacterium that is the causative agent of cholera. This
disease consists of enormous fluid loss through stools, which can be fatal. Cholera …

Aims: To investigate the distribution of the virulence of two Vibrio species among different
strains obtained from the mariculture systems on the coast of Guangdong in China and the …

Background and Objective: Research on Porphyromonas gingivalis, a periodontopathogen,
has provided a tremendous amount of information over the last 20 years, which may exceed …

Most bacterial promoters are regulated by several signals. This is reflected in the complexity
of their organization, with multiple binding sites for different transcription factors. Studies of a …

Sensing its changing environment is key for Vibrio cholerae when making the transition from
an aquatic lifestyle to one more suited to a human host. An inverse correlation between …

Background Vibrio alginolyticus is an important pathogen that has to be closely monitored
and controlled in the mariculture industry because of its strong pathogenicity, quick onset …

Bacterial nitrous oxide (N2O) respiration depends on the polytopic membrane protein NosR
for the expression of N2O reductase from the nosZ gene. We constructed His-tagged NosR …

ToxR, a Vibrio cholerae transmembrane one-component signal transduction factor, lies
within a regulatory cascade that results in the expression of ToxT, toxin coregulated pilus …