A typical marine bacterial cell in coastal seawater contains only∼ 200 molecules of mRNA,
each of which lasts only a few minutes before being degraded. Such a surprisingly small …

Bacteria have a remarkable ability to sense environmental changes, swiftly regulating their
transcriptional and posttranscriptional machinery as a response. Under conditions that …

The recent finding that microbial ammonia oxidation in the ocean is performed by archaea to
a greater extent than by bacteria has drastically changed the view on oceanic nitrification …

Abstract mRNA concentration depends on the balance between transcription and
degradation rates. On both sides of the equilibrium, synthesis and degradation show …

Marine heterotrophic prokaryotes primarily take up ambient substrates using transporters.
The patterns of transporters targeting particular substrates shape the ecological role of …

The instability of messenger RNA is fundamental to the control of gene expression. In
bacteria, mRNA degradation generally follows an “all-or-none” pattern. This implies that if …

Background Growth of the ocean's most abundant primary producer, the cyanobacterium
Prochlorococcus, is tightly synchronized to the natural 24-hour light-dark cycle. We sought to …

Aerobic methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) use a restricted substrate range, yet> 30 species-
equivalent operational taxonomical units (OTUs) are found in one paddy soil. How these …

Although bacterial genomes are usually densely protein-coding, genome-wide map**
approaches of transcriptional start sites revealed that a significant fraction of the identified …

The gut microbiota is the largest and most complex microbial community in the human body.
Host-gut microbiota interactions have significant implications on health and disease. The …