Chronic and recurrent bacterial infections are frequently associated with the formation of
biofilms on biotic or abiotic materials that are composed of mono-or multi-species cultures of …

Small regulatory RNA (sRNAs) are key mediators of posttranscriptional gene control in
bacteria. Assisted by RNA-binding proteins, a single sRNA often modulates the expression …

Notably, bacterial biofilm formation is increasingly recognized as a passive virulence factor
facilitating many infectious disease processes. In this review we will focus on bacterial …

Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) acting in concert with the RNA chaperone Hfq are prevalent
in many bacteria and typically act by base-pairing with multiple target transcripts. In the …

Biofilms provide an ecological advantage against many environmental stressors, such as pH
and temperature, making it the most common life‐cycle stage for many bacteria. These …

Quorum sensing is usually thought of as a collective behavior in which all members of a
population partake. However, over the last decade, several reports of phenotypic …

Salicylic acid (SAL) has recently been shown to induce biofilm formation in Staphylococcus
aureus and to affect the expression of virulence factors. This study was aimed to investigate …

Bacterial cells alter gene expression in response to changes in population density in a
process called quorum sensing (QS). In Vibrio harveyi, LuxO, a low-cell-density activator of …

Vibrio cholerae, the cause of cholera disease, exhibits a characteristic curved rod
morphology, which promotes infectivity and motility in dense hydrogels. Periplasmic protein …

The first discovered and well-characterized bacterial quorum sensing (QS) system belongs
to Vibrio fischeri, which uses N-acyl homo-serine lactones (AHLs) for cell-cell signaling. AHL …