If fully stretched out, a typical bacterial chromosome would be nearly 1 mm long,
approximately 1,000 times the length of a cell. Not only must cells massively compact their …

The remarkable ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to survive attacks from the host
immune response and drug treatment is due to the resilience of a few bacilli rather than a …

The bacterial chromosome must be efficiently compacted to fit inside the small and crowded
cell while remaining accessible for the protein complexes involved in replication …

How to adapt to a changing environment is a fundamental, recurrent problem confronting
cells. One solution is for cells to organize their constituents into a limited number of spatially …

Highlights•Ser/Thr phosphorylation is involved in the regulation of cell wall synthesis and
translation.•Ser/Thr kinases phosphorylate elements of two-component systems.•Ser/Thr …

Nucleoid-associated proteins belong to a group of small but abundant proteins in bacterial
cells. These transcription regulators are responsible for many important cellular processes …

Osmotolerance is one of the critical factors for successful survival and colonization of
microbes in saline environments. Nonetheless, information about these osmotolerance …

Bacteria possess a repertoire of versatile protein kinases modulating diverse aspects of their
physiology by phosphorylating proteins on various amino acids including histidine, cysteine …

Nucleoid‐associated protein HU, a conserved protein across eubacteria is necessary for
maintaining the nucleoid organization and global regulation of gene expression …

Among the 16 two-component systems in the opportunistic human pathogen
Staphylococcus aureus, only WalKR is essential. Like the orthologous systems in other …