Posttranslational modification by phosphorylation is a ubiquitous regulatory mechanism in
both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Intracellular phosphorylation by protein kinases, triggered …

Bacterial swarming is an example of dynamic self-assembly in microbiology in which the
collective interaction of a population of bacterial cells leads to emergent behavior. Swarming …

Ralstonia solanacearum, a widely distributed and economically important plant pathogen,
invades the roots of diverse plant hosts from the soil and aggressively colonizes the xylem …

The interdisciplinary field of marine chemical ecology is an expanding and dynamic science.
It is no surprise that the breadth of marine organisms studied expanded in concert with …

Within the cognitive sciences, cognition tends to be interpreted from an anthropocentric
perspective, involving a stringent set of human capabilities. Instead, we suggest that …

ABSTRACT A temperature-sensitive lethal mutant of Staphylococcus aureus was found to
harbor a mutation in the uncharacterized two-component histidine kinase (HK)-response …

While traditionally microbiologists have examined bacterial behavior averaged over large
populations, increasingly we are becoming aware that bacterial populations can be …

Chemotaxis is the process by which motile cells move in a biased manner both towards
favourable and away from unfavourable environments. The requirement of this process for …

Cells of Escherichia coli under conditions of certain cellular stresses excrete attractants.
Cells of chemotactic strains respond to these excreted signaling molecules by moving up …

Interacting or functionally related protein families tend to have similar phylogenetic trees.
Based on this observation, techniques have been developed to predict interaction partners …