A differential effect of E. coli toxin-antitoxin systems on cell death in liquid media and biofilm formation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules are gene pairs specifying for a toxin and its antitoxin and are found on the chromosomes of many bacteria including pathogens. Here we report how each of five such TA systems in E. coli affect bacterial cell death differently
Ilana Kolodkin-Gal +3 more
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Causes and consequences of bacterial local adaptation via MGEs in the plant microbiome
New Phytologist, Volume 249, Issue 5, Page 2215-2223, March 2026.Summary Adaptations that enable plant‐associated bacteria to fill disparate niches comprise a critical component of microbial diversity. Genes that confer locally adaptive bacterial traits, ranging from heavy metal resistance to pathogen or symbiont infectivity, often reside within mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that can move between genomes.
Stephanie Porter +3 more
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Complete Assembly of the Genome of an Acidovorax citrulli Strain Reveals a Naturally Occurring Plasmid in This Species [PDF]
, 2019 Acidovorax citrulli is the causal agent of bacterial fruit blotch (BFB), a serious threat to cucurbit crop production worldwide. Based on genetic and phenotypic properties, A.
Chen, Gong +6 more
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Epitranscriptomics as a Candidate Universal Modulator of Dormancy Transitions
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.Dormancy is presented as a conserved, reversible survival program in which epitranscriptomic RNA modifications are proposed to provide a rapid, energy‐efficient layer that establishes, maintains, and terminates the state by modulating mRNA stability, translation, and localization.
Ehsan Pashay Ahi
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Genomic Evolution of Two Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Strains from ST-2 Clones Isolated in 2000 and 2010 (ST-2_clon_2000 and ST-2_clon_2010) [PDF]
, 2016 Acinetobacter baumannii is a successful nosocomial pathogen due to its ability to persist in hospital environments by acquiring mobile elements such as transposons, plasmids, and phages. In this study, we compared two genomes of A.
Blasco, L. +8 more
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Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2026.This study identified DNA viruses from Qiangyong proglacial lake sediments on the Tibetan Plateau, revealing a highly diverse and previously uncharacterized viral community. These viruses influence microbial community structure and function by infecting key nutrient‐transforming taxa and encoding auxiliary metabolic genes that modulate host metabolism.
Yang Zhao +6 more
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Operator-Theoretic Characterization of Eventually Monotone Systems
, 2017 Monotone systems are dynamical systems whose solutions preserve a partial order in the initial condition for all positive times. It stands to reason that some systems may preserve a partial order only after some initial transient.
Mauroy, Alexandre, Sootla, Aivar
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Genome Mining Shows Ubiquitous Presence and Extensive Diversity of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Pseudomonas syringae [PDF]
, 2022 Prem P. Kandel +5 more
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Probiotic‐Based Materials as Living Therapeutics
Advanced Materials, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2 January 2026.Recent advances in Engineered Living Materials are highlighted, integrating synthetic biology and advanced materials, with a focus on probiotic‐based therapeutics. Probiotic Living Materials hold great potential for biosensing, infection treatment, osteogenesis, wound healing, vaginal and gastrointestinal disorders, and cancer therapy. breakthroughs in
Laura Sabio +2 more
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Transcriptional cross-activation between toxin-antitoxin systems of Escherichia coli [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Bacterial toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are formed by potent regulatory or suicide factors (toxins) and their short-lived inhibitors (antitoxins). Antitoxins are DNA-binding proteins and auto-repress transcription of TA operons.
Niilo Kaldalu +3 more
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