Groundbreaking research pioneered by UWA is shedding light on the intricate dance between proteins, DNA and RNA – the fundamental building blocks of life,

The Mesorhizobium loti strain R7A symbiosis island is an Integrative Conjugative Element (ICE), herein termed ICEMlSymR7A, which integrates into a phetRNA gene. Integration reconstructs the phetRNA g...

Abstract. Winged helix–turn–helix (wHTH) proteins are diverse DNA-binding proteins that often oligomerize on DNA and participate in DNA recombination and t

I stumbled onto a small RNA (sRNA) induced by oxidative stress when I did the “wrong” northern blot experiment as a second-year graduate student. I wa…

A remarkable range of novel antibiotics is attracting increasing interest as a major new weapon in the campaign against bacterial infection. They are based on the toxic peptides that provide the innat...