The stringent response is a pivotal survival strategy employed by bacteria to swiftly adapt to environmental stress. Central to this mechanism is the accumulation of alarmone nucleotides, primarily ...

The facultative intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, like many related Firmicutes, uses the nucleotide second messenger cyclic di-AMP (c-di-AMP) to adapt to changes in nutrient availability, ...

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd. Sleep is an essential behavior that exists from worms to humans, and it’s driven by integration both internal sleep drive and external environment factors.

Red arrows indicate the DNA repair pathways that are known to aid bacterial survival as persisters and gamblers in the presence of fluoroquinolones. Blue color arrow indicates downregulation, while ...