The cell wall peptidoglycan (PG) protects virtually all bacteria from osmotic lysis and specifies cell shape. Synthesis of this exoskeleton is carr...

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

An interview with Camille Goemans, tenure-track assistant professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland and former EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow

The arrangement of genes along bacterial chromosomes influences their expression through growth rate–dependent gene copy number changes during DNA replication. Although translation- and transcription-...