Simple Summary It has long been known that breast tumors harbor various types of
microbes. However, it was little known where these tumor-resident microbes came from and …

Despite the numerous advantages of biosurfactants, such as low toxicity, biodegradability
and high stability, these compounds are not widely used because of the high cost of …

Effective treatment for chronic infections is undermined by a significant gap in understanding
of the physiological state of pathogens at the site of infection. Chronic pulmonary infections …

Deciphering the mechanisms of bacterial fatty acid biosynthesis is crucial for both the
engineering of bacterial hosts to produce fatty acid-derived molecules and the development …

Background Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common opportunistic pathogen, is known to
cause infections in a variety of compromised human tissues. An emerging mechanism for …

Multidrug (MDR) efflux pumps are ancient and conserved molecular machineries with
relevant roles in different aspects of the bacterial physiology, besides antibiotic resistance. In …

The need for new antibiotics has become a major worldwide challenge as bacterial strains
keep developing resistance to the existing drugs at an alarming rate. Enoyl-acyl carrier …

The prototypical type II fatty acid synthesis (FAS) pathway in bacteria utilizes two distinct
classes of β-ketoacyl synthase (KAS) domains to assemble long-chain fatty acids, the KASIII …

The prevalence of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa places a heavy burden
on the health care sectors urging the need to find alternative, non-antibiotic strategies. The …

Sound has been shown to impact microbial behaviors. However, our understanding of the
chemical and molecular mechanisms underlying these microbial responses to acoustic …