An accumulation of an unexpected intermediate of the peptidoglycan recycling pathway that is able to modulate the synthesis and structure of the cell wall, has been found. An accumulation of an ...

J. S. Spika, P. K. Peterson, B. J. Wilkinson, D. E. Hammerschmidt, H. A. Verbrugh, J. Verhoef, P. G. Quie The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 146, No. 2 (Aug ...

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Most bacteria are shielded by a protective cell wall consisting of a strong yet elastic polymer called peptidoglycan. Peptidoglycan is essential for bacteria and so, it has always been in the ...

There are many ways of classifying bacteria. One method is based on the cell membrane. In 1884, a bacteriologist named Christian Gram created a test that could determine if a bacterium had a thick, ...

Textbook images show peptidoglycan as straight and ordered. The biopolymer peptidoglycan that makes up bacterial cell walls was always assumed to be highly ordered. Textbook images like the one below ...

In two recent studies, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Unilever have collaborated to develop computational models of bacterial cell walls that can speed up the screening of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Findings show changes in the cell wall of Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria during Lyme disease infection. Results ...

Following the drive to understand and control bacteria, it’s becoming clear that our methods have changed the very organisms we aim to understand, increasing resistance to tried-and-true antimicrobial ...