Studies of transcriptional initiation in different bacterial clades reveal diverse molecular
mechanisms regulating this first step in gene expression. The WhiA and WhiB factors are …

Contractile injection systems (CIS) are bacteriophage tail-like structures that mediate
bacterial cell–cell interactions. While CIS are highly abundant across diverse bacterial …

Streptomyces bacteria have been studied for more than 80 years thanks to their ability to
produce an incredible array of antibiotics and other specialized metabolites and their …

Indigoidine, as a kind of natural blue pigment, is widely used in textiles, food, and
pharmaceuticals and is mainly synthesized from l-glutamine via a condensation reaction by …

Myxococcota represents a small bacterial phylum comprising seven families, which have
been shown to be exceptionally rich producers of pharmaceutically interesting natural …

Bacterial cytokinesis starts with the polymerization of the tubulin-like FtsZ, which forms the
cell division scaffold. SepF aligns FtsZ polymers and also acts as a membrane anchor for the …

Abstract The GTPase FtsZ forms the cell division scaffold in bacteria, which mediates the
recruitment of the other components of the divisome. Streptomycetes undergo two different …

Background SepIVA has been reported to be an essential septation factor in
Mycolicibacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is a coiled-coil protein with …

DNA damage often causes an arrest of the cell cycle that provides time for genome integrity
to be restored. In bacteria, the classical SOS DNA damage response leads to an inhibition of …

Contractile injection systems (CISs) are bacteriophage tail-like structures that mediate
bacterial cell-cell interactions. While CISs are highly abundant across diverse bacterial …