Literature covered: early 2000s to late 2017 Bacteria frequently exchange metabolites with
other micro-and macro-organisms. In these often obligate cross-feeding interactions, primary …

Plasmids mediate the horizontal transmission of genetic information between bacteria,
facilitating their adaptation to multiple environmental conditions. An especially important …

Brown algae are important players in the global carbon cycle by fixing carbon dioxide into 1
Gt of biomass annually, yet the fate of fucoidan—their major cell wall polysaccharide …

Cells use feedback regulation to ensure robust growth despite fluctuating demands for
resources and differing environmental conditions. However, the expression of foreign …

Viruses of bacteria (bacteriophages or phage) have broad effects on bacterial ecology and
evolution in nature that mediate microbial interactions, shape bacterial diversity, and …

The economy of protein production is central to cell physiology, being intimately linked with
cell division rate and cell size. Attempts to model cellular physiology are limited by the …

Engineered DNA will slow the growth of a host cell if it redirects limiting resources or
otherwise interferes with homeostasis. Escape mutants that alleviate this burden can rapidly …

Heterologous gene expression can be a significant burden for cells. Here we describe an in
vivo monitor that tracks changes in the capacity of Escherichia coli in real time and can be …

Contrary to the textbook portrayal of glycolysis as a single pathway conserved across all
domains of life, not all sugar-consuming organisms use the canonical Embden–Meyerhoff …

A central aim of cell biology was to understand the strategy of gene expression in response
to the environment. Here, we study gene expression response to metabolic challenges in …