Sabina Heim

TL;DR: Pseudomonas putida is a metabolically versatile saprophytic soil bacterium that has been certified as a biosafety host for the cloning of foreign genes.

TL;DR: The genome of KT2440 exhibits combinations of features characteristic of terrestrial, rhizosphere and aquatic bacteria, which thrive in either copiotrophic or oligotrophic habitats, and suggests that P. putida has evolved and acquired functions that equip it to thrive in diverse, often inhospitable environments.

TL;DR: It is shown that chaotropic solutes that do not affect turgor reduce water activity, perturb macromolecule-water interactions and thereby destabilize cellular macromolescules, inhibit growth, and are powerful mediators of water stress in a typical soil bacterium, Pseudomonas putida.

TL;DR: A two-dimensional gel protein reference map of KT2440 cells grown in mineral salts medium with glucose as carbon source was used to assess the genomic response of KT 2440 to iron limitation stress and to compare this response with that of the closely related facultative human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1.