The phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP): carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) is found
only in bacteria, where it catalyzes the transport and phosphorylation of numerous …

Cooperation is a prevalent phenomenon in nature and how it originates and maintains is a
fundamental question in ecology. Many efforts have been made to understand cooperation …

Lactococcus lactis is a major microbe. This lactic acid bacterium (LAB) is used worldwide in
the production of safe, healthy, tasteful and nutritious milk fermentation products. Its huge …

Background Accurate prediction of DNA motifs that are targets of RNA polymerases, sigma
factors and transcription factors (TFs) in prokaryotes is a difficult mission mainly due to as yet …

The aerotolerant anaerobe Streptococcus pneumoniae is part of the normal nasopharyngeal
microbiota of humans and one of the most important invasive pathogens. A genomic survey …

Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus is an extremely thermophilic, gram-positive anaerobe
which ferments cellulose-, hemicellulose-and pectin-containing biomass to acetate, CO2 …

Lactococcus lactis NZ9000 and its parent MG1363 are the most commonly used lactic acid
bacteria for expression and physiological studies. We noted unexpected but significant …

Carbon catabolite control protein A (CcpA) is the main regulator involved in carbon
catabolite repression in gram-positive bacteria. Time series gene expression analyses of …

Thermoanaerobacter kivui is one of the very few thermophilic acetogenic microorganisms. It
grows optimally at 66° C on sugars but also lithotrophically with H2+ CO2 or with CO …

Corynebacterium glutamicum grows on a variety of carbohydrates and organic acids.
Uptake of the preferred carbon source glucose via the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent …