Author summary Horizontal gene transfer allows bacteria to acquire new traits, including many of the genes that make pathogens harmful. However, newly acquired DNA can also disrupt normal cellular fun...

Flagellin is the structural protein of the bacterial flagellar filament, an extracellular propeller that rotates to drive swimming in many bacteria. The structure of flagellin allows for outer domain ...

Bona fide gene clusters for archaella are widespread across a bacterial phylum and encode functional motility machinery.

Flagellin is a key protein forming the filament of the bacterial flagellar motor which powers most bacterial swimming. Flagellin can have hypervariable domains which can alter motility in different en...

Abstract. Bacterial swimming is mostly powered by the bacterial flagellar motor and the number of proteins involved in the flagellar motor can vary. Quanti

Nisin O is an antimicrobial peptide encoded by the human gut bacterium Blautia obeum A2-162 which has antimicrobial activity against clinically relevant organisms. The nisin O biosynthetic gene cluste...