Background Microbial meat spoilage is responsible for huge losses during production,
distribution, and storage of meat products, accounting for approximately 21% of total food …

Two-component systems (TCS) comprising sensor histidine kinases and response regulator
proteins are among the most important players in bacterial and archaeal signal transduction …

Metabolically versatile free-living bacteria have global regulation systems that allow cells to
selectively assimilate a preferred compound among a mixture of several potential carbon …

The measure of the quality of a systems biology model is how well it can reproduce and
predict the behaviors of a biological system such as a microbial cell. In recent years, these …

Random transposon mutagenesis is the strategy of choice for associating a phenotype with
its unknown genetic determinants. It is generally performed by mobilization of a conditionally …

In the metabolically versatile bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the RNA-binding protein
Crc is involved in catabolite repression of a range of degradative genes, such as amiE …

Most sequenced bacteria possess mechanisms to import choline and glycine betaine (GB)
into the cytoplasm. The primary role of choline in bacteria appears to be as the precursor to …

The ability to degrade the amino acid histidine to ammonia, glutamate, and a one-carbon
compound (formate or formamide) is a property that is widely distributed among bacteria …

Shewanella baltica is a typical specific spoilage organism causing the deterioration of
seafood, but the exact regulation of its adaptive and competitive dominance in diverse …

Bacterial fruit blotch (BFB), caused by Acidovorax citrulli, severely damages watermelon,
melon, and other cucurbit crops worldwide. Nitrogen, one of the most important limiting …