Two-component signaling is a specialized mechanism that bacteria use to respond to
changes in their environment. Nonpathogenic strains of Escherichia coli K-12 harbor 30 …

Plant microbiomes are assembled and modified through a complex milieu of biotic and
abiotic factors. Despite dynamic and fluctuating contributing variables, specific host …

Flagellum-driven motility of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium facilitates host
colonization. However, the large extracellular flagellum is also a prime target for the immune …

The growth of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440 on glycerol as the sole
carbon source is characterized by a prolonged lag phase, not observed with other carbon …

The widespread sulfonamide resistance genes sul1, sul2, and sul3 in food and gut bacteria
have attracted considerable attention. In this study, we assessed the in vivo fitness of sul …

Bacterial flagellar motility plays an important role in many processes that occur at surfaces or
in hydrogels, including adhesion, biofilm formation, and bacterium-host interactions …

Vibrio parahaemolyticus rapidly colonizes surfaces using swarming motility. Surface contact
induces the surface-sensing regulon, including lateral flagellar genes, spurring dramatic …

Many pathogenic bacteria use sophisticated survival strategies to overcome harsh
environmental conditions. One strategy is the formation of slow-growing subpopulations …

Advances in technologies that permit high-resolution analysis of events in single cells have
revealed that phenotypic heterogeneity is a widespread phenomenon in bacteria. Flow …

Production of flagella is costly and subject to global multilayered regulation, which is
reflected in the hierarchical control of flagellar production in many bacterial species. For …