Sawers R Gary
Institute for Microbiology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.
Curr Biol. 2025 Jan 6;35(1):R16-R18. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.017.
Non-N-fixing cyanobacteria enter a state of dormancy when fixed nitrogen becomes limiting. Resuscitation from this state involves a complex program of events. A new study reveals how the dormancy-resuscitation switch is governed by metabolite-level control of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity.