The idea of renewable and regenerative resources has inspired research for more than a
hundred years. Ideally, the only spent energy will replenish itself, like plant material …

The combination of synthetic and systems biology is a powerful framework to study
fundamental questions in biology and produce chemicals of immediate practical application …

The sequence-specific RNA binding protein CsrA is employed by diverse bacteria in the
posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression. Its binding interactions with RNA have …

An overview was made to understand the regulation system of a bacterial cell such as
Escherichia coli in response to nutrient limitation such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphate …

Growing concerns over limited fossil resources and associated environmental problems are
motivating the development of sustainable processes for the production of high-volume fuels …

Background The sustainable production of biofuels remains one of the major issues of the
upcoming years. Among the number of most desirable molecules to be produced, butanol …

Engineering the shikimate pathway is a primary approach for biosynthesis of various
aromatic compounds, many of which are involved in formation of important compounds with …

Persistence is a phenomenon whereby a subpopulation of bacterial cells enters a transient
growth-arrested state that confers antibiotic tolerance. While entrance into persistence has …

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are versatile and powerful controllers of gene expression that
have been increasingly linked to cellular metabolism and phenotype. In bacteria, identified …

To cause infection, Salmonella must survive and replicate in host niches that present
dramatically different environmental conditions. This requires a flexible metabolism and …