The Drosophila embryonic central nervous system (CNS) develops from the ventral neuroectoderm, which produces a stereotyped array of neural precursor cells, called neuroblasts. Neuroblasts are unique, based on their position ...

This thesis represents the first comprehensive study of phospholipid biosynthesis as it relates to intracytoplasmic membrane (ICM) assembly in Phodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Description of the phospholipid biosynthetic ...

Microbial speciation is a topic of great debate, given that bacteria and archaea are generally asexually reproducing organisms that occasionally engage in genetic transfer and recombination. With the onset of the era of ...

Lipoic acid is a cofactor essential for the function of key metabolic pathways in eukaryotes and most prokaryotes. Physiological function of lipoic acid is dependent on covalent attachment of the cofactor to highly specific ...

Large, low copy number plasmids, such as those harboring antibiotic resistance genes, often possess plasmid maintenance systems to ensure their persistence and inheritance in a bacterial population. One example is the ...