Microbial strategies driving low concentration substrate degradation for sustainable remediation solutions

Q Yin, K He, G Collins, J De Vrieze, G Wu - npj Clean Water, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial metabolism upholds a fundamental role in the sustainability of water ecosystems.
However, how microorganisms surviving in low-concentration substrate water environments …

Metabolic reprogramming and longevity in quiescence

J Dworkin, CS Harwood - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Since Jacques Monod's foundational work in the 1940s, investigators studying bacterial
physiology have largely (but not exclusively) focused on the exponential phase of bacterial …

Ribosome-binding antibiotics increase bacterial longevity and growth efficiency

E Wood, H Schulenburg, P Rosenstiel… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Antibiotics, by definition, reduce bacterial growth rates in optimal culture conditions;
however, the real-world environments bacteria inhabit see rapid growth punctuated by …

Microbial population dynamics and evolutionary outcomes under extreme energy limitation

WR Shoemaker, SE Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Microorganisms commonly inhabit energy-limited ecosystems where cellular maintenance
and reproduction is highly constrained. To gain insight into how individuals persist under …

Death and population dynamics affect mutation rate estimates and evolvability under stress in bacteria

A Frenoy, S Bonhoeffer - PLoS Biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The stress-induced mutagenesis hypothesis postulates that in response to stress, bacteria
increase their genome-wide mutation rate, in turn increasing the chances that a descendant …

Antibiotic-degrading resistance changes bacterial community structure via species-specific responses

A Pathak, DC Angst, R León-Sampedro… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Some bacterial resistance mechanisms degrade antibiotics, potentially protecting
neighbouring susceptible cells from antibiotic exposure. We do not yet understand how such …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity in starvation survival strategies and outcomes among heterotrophic proteobacteria

M Bergkessel, L Delavaine - Microbial physiology, 2021 - karger.com
Heterotrophic Proteobacteria are versatile opportunists that have been extensively studied
as model organisms in the laboratory, as both pathogens and beneficial symbionts of plants …

Klebsiella and Providencia emerge as lone survivors following long-term starvation of oral microbiota

JL Baker, EL Hendrickson, X Tang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
It is well-understood that many bacteria have evolved to survive catastrophic events using a
variety of mechanisms, which include expression of stress-response genes, quiescence …

Double-Wing Motif Protein is a Novel Biofilm Regulatory Factor of the Plant Disease Biocontrol Agent, Bacillus subtilis

Q Dong, Y Chang, PH Goodwin, Q Liu… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Transposon mutagenesis screening of Bacillus subtilis YB-1471, a novel rhizosphere
biocontrol agent of Fusarium crown rot (FCR) of wheat, resulted in the identification of …

Mode of killing determines the necrotrophic response of oral bacteria

N Zayed, J Figueiredo, W Van Holm… - Journal of Oral …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Bacteria respond to changes in their environment, such as nutrient depletion
and antimicrobials exposure. Antimicrobials result not only in bacterial death, but also have …