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Molecular Mechanisms of HipA-Mediated Multidrug Tolerance and Its Neutralization by HipB

Bacterial multidrug tolerance is largely responsible for the inability of antibiotics to eradicate infections...
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DNA Sequences in gal Operon Override Transcription Elongation Blocks

The presence of a specifically located purine-rich sequence is sufficient to override transcription elongation blocks in the gal operon...
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Carl Zimmer on EcoliHub

Award-winning science writer Carl Zimmer has written an essay for EcoliHub. "... For scientists, Escherichia coli is an oracle…"
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Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins

WikiProteins enables community annotation in a Wiki-based system.Extracts of major data sources have been fused into an editable… Read More

Multiple Stressor- Induced Proteome Responses of E. coli BL21(DE3)

Through 2-DE based quantitative proteomics, the dynamic characteristics… Read More

Genome rewired

Within a genome, genes are connected to each other through a complex network of… Read More

Regulatory activity revealed by dynamic correlations...

Nature Genetics 2008 Dec;40(12):1493-8. Dunlop MJ, Cox RS 3rd, Levine JH, Murray RM, Elowitz MB. Read More

The BLUE-EAL protein YcgF acts as a direct anti-repressor in a blue-light response of E. coli

Tschowri N, Busse S, Hengge R. at Institut fur Biologie-Mikrobiologie, Freie Universitat Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany. PMID: 19240136. Read More

Functional organization of E. coli transcriptional regulatory network

Agustino Martinez-Antonio, Sarath Chandra Janga and Denis Thieffry. Keywords: transcriptional regulation; network organization; phenotypes Read More

Featured Videos

3-D Visualization Tool

A video showing a tool developed by the LifeExplorer Project to map molecular components of E. coli Watch Video!

Diesel fuel from E. coli

A video showing how scientists are able to genetically engineer E. coli to produce Diesel fuel. Watch Video!

Digital Bacteria Movement

A computer simulation created by Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Watch Video!
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Protein synthesis - An epic on the cellular level

Directed in 1971 by Robert Alan Weiss & Narrated by Paul Berg, 1980 Nobel prize for Chemistry Watch Video!

Ribosome Decoding

A short clip simulating movement of transfer RNA into the ribosome during decoding. Watch Video!

Bacteriophage T4

A molecularly accurate animation of the infection an E. coli cell by T4. Watch Video!

E. coli Classic Papers

X-Ray Induced Mutant Strains of Escherichia coli

Article from the National Academy of Sciences written by E.L. Tatum regarding his work with Escherichia coli. Read More
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Mutations of Bacteria from Virus Sensitivity to Virus Resistance

Classic Article about the development of Virus Resistant Bacteria. - S.E. Luria and M. Delbruck
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