SCIENCE HUB · MICROBIOLOGY & MICROBIAL SYSTEMS
A Microbe May Be Small, but It Still Has to Build a Boundary, Find Energy, Read Its Environment, Defend Its Information and Coordinate Its Next Move.
This corridor separates microbial systems from general cellular Biology so bacterial, archaeal, fungal, algal and protist mechanisms can be learned at their proper scale.
Cell Envelopes, Shape and Molecular Transport
- Bacterial Capsule Polysaccharide Assembly
- Lipopolysaccharide Transport and the Lpt Bridge
- The Lol Lipoprotein Trafficking System
- TonB-Dependent Outer-Membrane Transport
- Peptidoglycan Recycling
- MreB and the Bacterial Elongasome
- FtsZ and the Bacterial Divisome
- BAM Complex and Outer-Membrane β-Barrel Assembly
- Bacterial BAM Complex: Hybrid-Barrel Folding Route
- Bacterial Sec and Tat Protein Export
- Type III Secretion Injectisomes
- Type VI Secretion System
- Type IV Pili and Twitching Motility
- Archaeal S-Layers and Cell-Surface Glycoproteins
- L-Form Bacteria and Wall-Free Division
Gene Control, Genome Defence and Translation
- Bacterial Nucleotide Excision Repair
- Bacterial DNA Mismatch Repair
- RecA Recombination and the SOS Response
- Bacterial Restriction–Modification Systems
- DNA Phosphorothioation
- DNA Supercoiling and Bacterial Topoisomerases
- Bacterial SMC Condensins and Chromosome Architecture
- Archaeal Histones and Chromatin
- Bacterial Ribosome Biogenesis
- Bacterial RNA Degradosome
- tmRNA–SmpB Trans-Translation and Ribosome Rescue
- Bacterial Ribosome Hibernation
- RNA Thermometers
- Riboswitches and Metabolite-Sensing RNA
- DnaK–DnaJ–GrpE Hsp70 Chaperones
- GroEL–GroES Chaperonin Folding
Sensing, Motility, Community and Competition
- Bacterial Chemotaxis and Chemoreceptor Arrays
- Bacterial Flagellar Motors
- Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channels
- Cyclic di-GMP Signalling
- Bacterial Quorum Sensing
- Bacteriophages and Phage–Bacteria Ecology
- Gas Vesicles and Microbial Buoyancy
- Magnetosomes and Magnetotaxis
- Bacterial Endospores, Sporulation and Germination
Energy, Carbon, Nutrients and Microbial Compartments
- Bacterial Respiratory Supercomplexes
- Carboxysomes and Bacterial Carbon-Concentrating Mechanisms
- Bacterial Microcompartments and Metabolosomes
- PHA/PHB Bacterial Carbon-Storage Granules
- Comammox Nitrospira and Complete Nitrification
- Nitrogenase FeMo-Cofactor Assembly
- Microbial Iron–Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis
- Ferritin and Bacterioferritin
- Polyphosphate and Acidocalcisomes
- Anammoxosomes and Ladderane Membranes
- Methanogenesis and Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase
- Extracellular Electron Transfer and Microbial Nanowires
- Cellulosomes and Cohesin–Dockerin Nanomachines
- Chlorosomes and Extreme Low-Light Photosynthesis
- Phycobilisomes and Chromatic Acclimation
- Cyanobacterial Circadian Clocks and KaiABC
- Microbial Rhodopsins and Retinal-Based Phototrophy
- Bioluminescence and Luciferase Chemistry
Resource Allocation and Stress Survival
Two stringent-response articles are retained because one follows the broad alarmone system while the newer route distinguishes ribosome sensing, DksA and lineage-specific GTP control more explicitly.
- Bacterial Stringent Response and (p)ppGpp
- Bacterial Stringent Response: RelA/SpoT, DksA and GTP Control
- Biological Ice Control
- Bacterial Hopanoids and Membrane Mechanics
- Archaeal Ether Lipids and Tetraether Membranes
Beyond Bacteria: Archaea, Fungi, Algae and Protists
Spider / Web / Hidden / Deep Connections
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- Spider — candidates: Earth & Space and Instrumentation become candidates when microbial function depends on geochemistry, environmental gradients, field observation or measurement at cellular scale.
- Web — admitted: Molecular & Cellular · Genome/RNA · Biochemistry · Ecology · Plant Science.
- Hidden Connect: microbial metabolism is an Earth-system process at scale. Redox chemistry, nitrogen transformations, methane cycling, mineral availability and microbial electron transfer connect Earth systems to microbial physiology without turning geology into microbiology.
- Deep Connect: Microbiology → Plant → Ecology → Earth.
