Holmqvist Lab

Bacteria are constantly challenged by harsh conditions in their ever-changing natural environments. To survive and proliferate, bacterial cells cope with stressful conditions by rapidly re-wire gene expression. To this end, bacteria have acquired complex gene regulatory networks, which at the post-transcriptional level are dominated by RNA-binding proteins and regulatory small RNAs. We study molecular mechanisms and cellular functions of bacterial RNA-binding proteins and their RNA ligands to understand how these regulatory macromolecules contribute to bacterial growth and survival.

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