Anindya Biswas

Capitalism wants you weak. Chained to a desk. Stuffed with expensive yet processed food. Too weak to raise your finger. Or, your voice. They want your body docile, a cog in its machine, churning profit while your strength withers. Marx saw it in Das Kapital: the system alienates you, turns your sweat into their surplus. But.

Highlights • BphP is a bathy-type bacteriophytochrome involved in sensing light in Xanthomonas • BphP degrades ubiquitous bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP in response to light • BphP regulates virulence-associated functions in a light-dependent fashion • Light-dependent modulation of c-di-GMP triggers sessile-to-motile transition Summary Bacteriophytochromes are the most abundant and ubiquitous light-sensing receptors in bacteria and are involved in time-of-day behavior or responses.