Cylicin 1 and Cylicin 2 are essential components of the sperm perinuclear theca and their loss results in impaired spermiogenesis and thus in infertility in mice and men.

Bacterial warfare protein colicin E1 opens its hinge to plug antibiotic efflux pump TolC and potentiate antibiotics.

A new perspective on the 50-year old mystery of why phages encode their own tRNAs.

A transport protein enables leaf beetle larvae to take up and store plant toxins and use them as part of their own defense strategy.

Discovery of a secreted protein from resident gut bacteria that reduced intestinal innate immune responses which would otherwise simultaneously compromise both bacterial and host survival.

Evolutionary game theory identifies reciprocation as a key winning strategy for warring bacteria.

Isoform-specific transcript localization underlies the evolutionary diversity of anterior axis determinants in embryos of dipteran insects.

Microbial genetics and biophysical analyses provide insight into an evolutionarily conserved bile salt receptor complex used by pathogenic bacteria to sense their environment.

A score-based read selection strategy enables the assembly of novel full-length ribosomal RNA sequences for mosquitoes, which improves the physical and computational removal of interfering ribosomal RNA reads in RNA-seq and provides another molecular marker for taxonomic and phylogenetic inquiries.

A simple, yet elegant method for robust self-assembly of diverse membrane proteins into soluble peptide nanoparticles for their structural and functional analysis in detergent-free solutions.