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 …

Metals play essential roles in many biological processes but are toxic when present in
excess. This makes their transport and homoeostatic control of particular importance to living …

Bacteria frequently engage in obligate metabolic mutualisms with other microorganisms.
However, it remains generally unclear how the resulting metabolic dependencies affect the …

Zinc (Zn) is an essential metal that vertebrates sequester from pathogens to protect against
infection. Investigating the opportunistic pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii's response to Zn …

Food security depends on enhancing production and reducing loss to pests and pathogens.
A promising alternative to agrochemicals is the use of plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria …

Fermentation of undigested proteins in human gastrointestinal tract (gut) by the resident
microbiota, a process called bacterial putrefaction, can sometimes disrupt the gut …

The idea that bacteria are social is a popular concept with implications for understanding the
ecology and evolution of microbes. The view arises predominately from reasoning regarding …

The genome of the plant-colonizing bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 harbors a
subset of genes that are expressed specifically on plant surfaces. The function of these …

CbrAB is a two-component system, unique to bacteria of the family Pseudomonaceae,
capable of integrating signals and involved in a multitude of physiological processes that …

Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 is capable of growing on histidine as a sole source of
carbon and/or nitrogen. Previous work showed that the two-component regulatory system …