However, scientists struggled to study replication’s effects on gene expression because the bugs in a bacterial population are like shift workers in a sleepless city. 2 Each one occupies a different ...

Improved understanding of how bacterial defense mechanisms operate may help scientists select phages with the best chance of ...

In classical bacterial conjugation, one bacterium transfers genetic material to another through direct cell-to-cell contact.3 This can either be through a natural process or via artificial means.

Transcription–replication interactions reveal bacterial genome regulation. Nature, 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06974-w ...

DNA replication is a fundamental process essential for bacterial growth and survival. Initiation begins at the chromosomal origin (oriC), where the conserved initiator protein DnaA assembles into ...

Control of replication and gene expression by ADP-ribosylation of DNA in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The EMBO Journal, 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s44318-025-00451-y ...

In a breakthrough discovery, published in Nature Communications, scientists from Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with researchers at Newcastle University and The Francis Crick ...

News Release 24-Jul-2023 Bacterial single-cell whole genome sequencing overhauled by engineered polymerase Peer-Reviewed Publication Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters ...

Here we discovered bacterial CD-NTases that produce 2′,3′-cGAMP to restrict phage replication. Bacterial 2′,3′-cGAMP binds to CD-NTase associated protein 14 (Cap14), a transmembrane protein of unknown ...