How to adapt to a changing environment is a fundamental, recurrent problem confronting
cells. One solution is for cells to organize their constituents into a limited number of spatially …

Diarrheal disease is still a major public health concern, as it is still considered an important
cause of death in children under five years of age. A few decades ago, the detection of …

In Escherichia coli and Salmonella, many genes silenced by the nucleoid structuring protein
H-NS are activated upon inhibiting Rho-dependent transcription termination. This response …

Niche-adaptation of a bacterial pathogen hinges on the ability to recognize the complexity of
signals from the environment and integrate that information with the regulation of genes …

Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are relevant agents in bacterial adaptation and
evolutionary diversification. Stable appropriation of these DNA elements depends on host …

Gastrointestinal (GI) pathogens enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli
(EPEC and EHEC), and related mouse pathogen Citrobacter rodentium, are referred to as …

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a significant cause of infant morbidity and
mortality in developing regions of the world. Horizontally acquired genetic elements encode …

肠出血性大肠埃希氏菌(enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, EHEC) 是一类能引起轻则水样
腹泻, 重则溶血尿毒综合征的重要肠道致病菌. EHEC 通过感知定殖部位的生物素和核酸浓度 …

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) mediates disease using a type 3 secretion
system (T3SS), which is encoded on the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) and is tightly …

Introduction Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)
and Citrobacter rodentium (CR) belong to a group of pathogens that share the ability to form …