Most swimming bacteria are capable of following gradients of nutrients, signaling molecules
and other environmental factors that affect bacterial physiology. This tactic behavior became …

Highlights•Bacteria have common and species-specific mechanisms to survive acid
stress.•Acid stress response and antibiotic tolerance are interconnected.•Acid stress …

Cooperative behavior, the costly provision of benefits to others, is common across all
domains of life. This review article discusses cooperative behavior in the microbial world …

Reversible protein phosphorylation at serine, threonine and tyrosine is a well-known
dynamic post-translational modification with stunning regulatory and signalling functions in …

Bacteria have evolved different signaling systems to sense and adapt to acid stress. One of
these systems, the CadABC system, responds to a combination of low pH and lysine …

Pyocins are phage tail-like protein complexes that can be used by Pseudomonas
aeruginosa to enact intraspecies competition by killing competing strains. The pyocin gene …

Bacteria sense intracellular and environmental signals using an array of proteins as
antennas. The information is transmitted from such sensory modules to other protein …

Two-component systems (TCSs)(cognate sensor histidine kinase/response regulator pair,
HK/RR) play a crucial role in bacterial adaptation, survival, and productive colonization. An …

Cell differentiation within an isogenic population allows the specialisation of subpopulations
and a division of labour. Bacillus thuringiensis is a spore‐forming bacterium that produces …

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global health threat. According to the CDC, nearly 2.8
million drug-resistant infections occur every year, killing 35,000 people annually. While …