A prior PLOS Biology study engineered bee gut bacteria to sense their microenvironment. This new study engineers a native honey bee symbiont into a living biosensor for arabinose, revealing its spatia...

Taillefer et al. show that a bacterial type VI secretion system is lost or attenuated during experimental evolution when it provides no competitive advantage but is maintained in the presence of susce...

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 07 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02322-6Sequential peptidoglycan carboxylase activity of DacA and DacB generates a local peptidoglycan signature that recruits MapZ and establishes the division site at the Streptococcus pneumoniae cell equator.

Properties of biomolecules; Epigenetics; Microbial genomics; Transcriptomics

Abstract. Plasmid conjugation is a major driver of antibiotic resistance dissemination in bacteria. In addition to genes required for transfer and maintena