Bacterial Stress Response Mechanisms: Signal Perception, Transduction and Adaptation 2.0
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Public Health Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2515
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bacterial stress response; adaptation; biofilm and virulence; antimicrobial strategies
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Interests: Pseudomonas aeruginosa; microbial persistence; microbial molecular biology; microbiology; antimicrobial strategies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our 2021 Special Issue "Bacterial Stress Response Mechanisms: Signal Perception, Transduction and Adaptation".
In their natural habitats, bacteria are exposed to changing and challenging environmental conditions that are perceived as stresses, to which they need to adapt to ensure their survival. Pathogens, in particular, must be able to overcome various host defense mechanisms. To cope with stress, bacteria have evolved intricate systems known as stress response, which sense these changes and rapidly trigger the well-orchestrated reprogramming of the expression of specific genes, leading to the production of effectors and allowing their survival and dissemination under these conditions. Stress response regulation involves several molecular pathways at the levels of transcription, translation, and stability of transcripts and of proteins. A better understanding of these stress response mechanisms may be useful for developing new strategies to fight bacteria which, in some cases, represent a significant threat to life.
This Special Issue aims to showcase our increased understanding of the mechanisms by which bacteria sense and respond to stresses encountered in the host or other environments.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Bacterial stress response;
- Molecular mechanisms involved in bacterial adaptation;
- Response to antimicrobials, host immune system, hormones, and environmental cues;
- Response to antimicrobial potentiators;
- Sigma factors, TCS, sncRNA.
Prof. Dr. Sylvie Chevalier
Prof. Dr. Pierre Cornelis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adaptation
- signal perception and transduction
- regulation networks
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