npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Intermittent antibiotic exposure of Escherichia coli biofilms drives resistance in catheter-associated infection models

The polysaccharidic capsule is present in ~50% of species across the bacterial phylogeny, including all ESKAPE microorganisms, the six most significant multidrug-resistant (MDR) nosocomial pathogens. It is also an important virulence factor and a major ...

Understanding how complex, multi-gene systems evolve and function across genetic backgrounds is a central question in molecular evolution. While such systems often impose costs through epistatic inter...

Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) is a Gram-negative bacterium that commonly resides in the human gastrointestinal tract and can also act as an opportunistic pathogen and cause extra-intestinal infections. K...

The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tis...

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025 is an opportunity to shine the spotlight on committed and talented women researchers. In addition to their scientific work, these Institut Past...

The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tis...

Our research explores the mechanisms of bacterial adhesion within the dental plaque, focusing on Veillonella parvula, a key player in the oral microbiome. Dependent on lactate from streptococci, V. pa...

Outer membrane tethering is important for cell envelope integrity in diderm bacteria. Here, the authors present structures and functional analyses of the stalked porin OmpM, which is the main outer me...

The symbioses that gave rise to primary organelles are key events in the origin of Eukaryotes. This study uses a dataset of markers belonging to two conserved machineries responsible for [Fe-S] cluste...