Dörte Becher

TL;DR: The bacterioplankton response to a diatom bloom in the North Sea is investigated and a dynamic succession of populations at genus-level resolution is observed, revealing how planktonic species, despite their seemingly homogeneous habitat, can evade extinction by direct competition.

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: This study suggests that the effects that have been attributed to H2S in previous reports may in fact have been mediated by polysulfides, and supports the notion that sulfane sulfur rather than sulfide is the actual in vivo agent of H 2S signaling.

TL;DR: These findings highlight the extensive and unexplored structural diversity of enzymatic systems in cellulolytic soil bacteria and indicate the roles of multiple abundant bacterial taxa in the decomposition of cellulose and other plant polysaccharides.

TL;DR: The proteome of growing cells of Bacillus subtilis was analyzed and a reasonable correlation was found for the majority of protein spots, and the vegetative proteome containing 876 proteins in total is now ready for physiological applications.