Firmicutes are gram-positive bacteria with important roles in human health, disease, and industry. However, more than a quarter of genes in the mod...

SUMMARYRNA modifications in the tRNA, rRNA, and mRNA constitute a widespread layer of post-transcriptional gene regulation, commonly known as the epitranscriptome. In bacteria, tRNA and rRNA modificat...

In this Perspective, Levin and Wang give a brief history of bacterial growth rate and discuss how it is connected to nutrient availability and macromolecule synthesis, with a focus on (p)ppGpp as a ce...

CRISPR-Cas provides RNA-mediated adaptive immunity, but how its first RNA-guided effector arose is unclear. In this study, we report the discovery of Viral Interference Programmable Repeat (VIPR) syst...

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective.

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The T7 bacteriophage deactivates bacterial defence systems through T7K phosphorylation of nearly all host and phage proteins during infection.

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Cell-cell signaling using a core metabolite repurposed as a developmental cue coordinates bacterial multicellular development.

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Molecular oxygen (O2) is the preferred terminal electron acceptor of the electron transport chain due to its high redox potential and is therefore an essential driver of cellular metabolism in aerobic...

Alt: Literal data about how magnetoreception works

Escherichia coli can survive methylglyoxal stress by modulating phosphorylation of a regulatory phosphotransferase system, which, in turn, regulates the activity of a potassium/proton antiporter. The...

Bacteriophages vary widely in life history strategy, but little is known about how these strategies influence host invasion and inter-phage competition in biofilms. This study explores the abilities o...

Pictures Considered #61 by Christoph — The last thirty years have been an "eye-open­ing" jour­ney for mi­cro­bial cell bio­logists, quite li­ter­al­ly. I am, of course, talk­ing about fluores­cent…

Sequencing of marine sediments finds 136 newly identified Heimdallarchaeia and several novel lineages, and indicates that Heimdallarchaeia evolved distinct metabolic capabilities from other Asgar...

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With encouragement from the Journal of Bacteriology Editor in Chief, George O’Toole, I have written this short essay in a style different than Journal of Bacteriology articles on model organisms. It i...

The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life