Using cryo-EM, the authors reveal how specific protein-DNA interactions within the relaxosome facilitate the transfer of plasmid DNA between bacteria. Metabolic dysfunction-associated ...

Using cryo-EM, the authors reveal how specific protein-DNA interactions within the relaxosome facilitate the transfer of plasmid DNA between bacteria. This study reveals prior undetected ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

May 29, 2025 — Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence ...