The initiation of bacterial transcription in E. coli serves as a model for transcription in Bacteria, Eukarya and Archaea. This is the first time that structural features of activator-driven ...

Bacterial survival depends on membrane lipid ... These sensors are either coupled to transcription factors or are enzymes that have activities that are intrinsically regulated by the biophysical ...

Five students of a private school at Kalamassery in Ernakulam district of Kerala have sought medical treatment after showing ...

Small molecules might influence how transcription factors are activated ... The work also highlights how methods and principles learned from bacterial model systems can be applied to human ...

Bacterial cellulose (BC), synthesized by certain ... i.e. defense mechanisms against pathogens. The transcription factor WRKY8, which regulates defense responses, was found to interact directly ...