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 ...