A recent study published in Frontiers in Microbiology, however, examines a little-researched aspect of DNA – its nutritional value to bacteria. Study: Escherichia coli Can Eat DNA as an ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — In 2019, the University of Idaho began an investigation to identify the source of E. coli stream contamination ... wanted to identify the source using DNA testing.

The bacterium Escherichia coli expresses the RecBCD protein with ... of RecC that could provide a dynamic docking site for RecB. Deletion of the RecC loop significantly reduced Chi-dependent DNA ...

Science news, including the latest on the UK's E. coli outbreak and how scientists are sniffing the air for DNA. And how our changing climate is affecting trees. Show more Dr Chris Smith and the ...

the metalloregulator must bind physically to the DNA and then unbind from the DNA. Studying E. coli DNA, the researchers found that the DNA sequences Zur and ZntR recognize overlap partially ...

The bacterial toxin - called colibactin - is capable of altering DNA and is produced by a strain of E. coli, though not the strain linked to infection such as diarrhoea in some people. Researchers ...

A number of species of harmful gut bacteria — including certain strains of E.coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae ... that this toxin can inflict distinct DNA damage on colon cells that’s difficult ...

Mertz chose Paul Berg as her mentor in December 1970 because he was just starting to figure out how to construct recombinant DNA containing simian virus 40 (SV40) that could be replicated and possibly ...

Scientists have uncovered how certain E. coli bacteria in the gut promote colon cancer by binding to intestinal cells and releasing a DNA-damaging toxin. The study, published in Nature ...