David Noone

TL;DR: Bacillus subtilis is the best-characterized member of the Gram-positive bacteria, indicating that bacteriophage infection has played an important evolutionary role in horizontal gene transfer, in particular in the propagation of bacterial pathogenesis.

TL;DR: The transcriptomes of Bacillus subtilis exposed to a wide range of environmental and nutritional conditions that the organism might encounter in nature are reported, offering an initial understanding of why certain regulatory strategies may be favored during evolution of dynamic control systems.

TL;DR: It is shown that a yvcE lytE double mutant strain is not viable and that cells lacking LytE and depleted for YvcE exhibit defects in lateral cell wall synthesis and cell elongation.

TL;DR: Using a combined hybrid regulator/transcriptome approach involving the inducible expression of a PhoP′‐′YycF chimerical protein in B. subtilis, it is shown that expression of yocH, which encodes a potential autolysin, is specifically activated by YyCF.

TL;DR: This study shows that CssRS-regulated genes represent a novel class of heat-inducible genes, which is referred to as class V and currently includes two genes: htrA and htrB, which are responsive to heat and secretion stress.