Oral commensal streptococci are primary colonizers of the oral cavity. These streptococci
produce many adhesins, metabolites, and antimicrobials that modulate microbial succession …

Lactic acid is an essential platform chemical with various applications in the chemicals, food,
pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries. Currently, the demand for lactic acid is driven by …

Plastics are now widespread in the natural environment. Due to their size, microplastics
(MPs; defined as particles< 5 mm) in particular, have the potential to cause damage and …

The catabolite control protein CcpA is a pleiotropic regulator that mediates the global
transcriptional response to rapidly catabolizable carbohydrates, like glucose in Gram …

The nature of the oral cavity and host behaviors has mandated that the oral microbiota
evolve mechanisms for coping with environmental fluctuations, especially changes in the …

For prototrophic bacteria, central metabolism (ie, glycolysis, the pentose phosphate
pathway, and the Krebs cycle) supplies the 13 biosynthetic intermediates necessary to …

Streptococcus pneumoniae is an opportunistic human pathogen that typically colonizes the
nasopharyngeal passage and causes lethal disease in other host niches, such as the lung …

Being the principal causative agent of bacterial pneumonia, otitis media, meningitis and
septicemia, the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major global health problem. To …

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of community-acquired pneumonia and
bacteraemia and is capable of remarkable phenotypic plasticity, responding rapidly to …

Background Streptococcus pneumoniae, the pneumococcus, is the main etiological agent of
pneumonia. Pneumococcal infection is initiated by bacterial adherence to lung epithelial …