Bacterial Networks in Cells and Communities

Victor Sourjik; Julia A Vorholt

doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2015.10.016

Bacterial Networks in Cells and Communities

J Mol Biol. 2015 Nov 20;427(23):3785-92. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.10.016. Epub 2015 Oct 24.

Authors

Victor Sourjik¹, Julia A Vorholt²

Affiliations

¹ Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), 35032 Marburg, Germany. Electronic address: victor.sourjik@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de.
² Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: jvorholt@ethz.ch.

PMID: 26506266
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.10.016

Abstract

Research on the bacterial regulatory networks is currently experiencing a true revival, driven by advances in methodology and by emergence of novel concepts. The biannual conference Bacterial Networks (BacNet15) held in May 2015, in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain, covered progress in the studies of regulatory networks that control bacterial physiology, cell biology, stress responses, metabolism, collective behavior and evolution. It demonstrated how interdisciplinary approaches that combine molecular biology and biochemistry with the latest microscopy developments, whole cell (-omics) approaches and mathematical modeling can help understand design principles relevant in microbiology. It further showed how current biotechnology and medical microbiology could profit from our knowledge of and ability to engineer regulatory networks of bacteria.

Keywords: bacteria; cell biology; networks; signal transduction; systems biology.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Bacteria / cytology*
Bacteria / metabolism*
Bacterial Physiological Phenomena
Congresses as Topic
Metabolic Networks and Pathways*
Quorum Sensing
Second Messenger Systems
Signal Transduction*