P. Stallforth

Pleiotropic regulation of bacterial toxin production and Allee effect govern microbial predator-prey interactions

The paper investigates how bacterial toxin production and Allee effects influence predator-prey dynamics between Pseudomonas fluorescens and amoebae, revealing spatiotemporal regulation of toxin production.

Strategic acyl carrier protein engineering enables functional type II polyketide synthase reconstitution in vitro

This study enables functional reconstitution of type II PKS in vitro by engineering acyl carrier proteins to be activatable by Sfp.

Chimeric LuxR Transcription Factors Rewire Natural Product Regulation

This paper demonstrates that chimeric LuxR transcription factors can activate silent bacterial biosynthetic gene clusters by modulating natural product regulation.

Lysinibacillus fusiformis M5 induces increased complexity in Bacillus subtilis 168 colony biofilms via hypoxanthine

This paper identifies Lysinibacillus fusiformis M5 as a soil bacterium that induces wrinkle formation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms via hypoxanthine, showing it does not rely on known biofilm regulators.