Small RNAs in bacteria and archaea: who they are, what they do, and how they do it

EGH Wagner, P Romby - Advances in genetics, 2015 - Elsevier
Small RNAs are ubiquitously present regulators in all kingdoms of life. Most bacterial and
archaeal small RNAs (sRNAs) act by antisense mechanisms on multiple target mRNAs …

Polyhydroxyalkanoates: much more than biodegradable plastics

NI López, MJ Pettinari, PI Nikel, BS Méndez - Advances in applied …, 2015 - Elsevier
Bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are isotactic polymers that play a critical role in
central metabolism, as they act as dynamic reservoirs of carbon and reducing equivalents …

The Crc and Hfq proteins of Pseudomonas putida cooperate in catabolite repression and formation of ribonucleic acid complexes with specific target motifs

R Moreno, S Hernández‐Arranz… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The Crc protein is a global regulator that has a key role in catabolite repression and
optimization of metabolism in Pseudomonads. Crc inhibits gene expression post …

Catabolism of phenol and its derivatives in bacteria: genes, their regulation, and use in the biodegradation of toxic pollutants

J Nešvera, L Rucká, M Pátek - Advances in applied microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Phenol and its derivatives (alkylphenols, halogenated phenols, nitrophenols) are natural or
man-made aromatic compounds that are ubiquitous in nature and in human-polluted …

Influence of the Crc regulator on the hierarchical use of carbon sources from a complete medium in Pseudomonas

R La Rosa, V Behrends, HD Williams… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The C rc protein, together with the H fq protein, participates in catabolite repression in
pseudomonads, helping to coordinate metabolism. Little is known about how C rc affects the …

The Crc protein participates in down‐regulation of the Lon gene to promote rhamnolipid production and rhl quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

N Yang, S Ding, F Chen, X Zhang, Y Xia… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rhamnolipid acts as a virulence factor during P seudomonas aeruginosa infection. Here, we
show that deletion of the catabolite repression control (crc) gene in P. aeruginosa leads to a …

The Crc/CrcZ‐CrcY global regulatory system helps the integration of gluconeogenic and glycolytic metabolism in Pseudomonas putida

R La Rosa, J Nogales, F Rojo - Environmental microbiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In metabolically versatile bacteria, carbon catabolite repression (CCR) facilitates the
preferential assimilation of the most efficient carbon sources, improving growth rates and …

Influence of the Crc global regulator on substrate uptake rates and the distribution of metabolic fluxes in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 growing in a complete medium

L Molina, R La Rosa, J Nogales… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
When the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida grows in a complete medium, it prioritizes the
assimilation of preferred carbon sources, optimizing its metabolism and growth. This …

Tailor-made sRNAs: a plasmid tool to control the expression of target mRNAs in Pseudomonas putida

P Apura, M Saramago, A Peregrina, SC Viegas… - Plasmid, 2020 - Elsevier
Pseudomonas putida is a highly attractive production system for industrial needs. However,
for its improvement as a biocatalyst at the industrial level, modulation of its gene expression …

The importance of understanding the regulation of bacterial metabolism

R Moreno, F Rojo - Environmental Microbiology, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many bacterial species have biotechnological applications, for example in the production of
compounds of interest by fermentation or biotransformation, the handling of waste and the …