Contrary to what you will read in textbooks, the cell wall of anammox bacteria contains the structural molecule peptidoglycan after all. This is the conclusion of a group of microbiologists from ...

Mechanism of expanding bacteria revealed Potential Achilles heel in the protective layers surrounding Gram-negative bacteria identified that could aid in the development of next-generation ...

In the past few decades, many Gram-negative bacteria have acquired multi-drug resistance, compounding the global threat to public health. Many pathogenic bacteria, including those that cause ...

Chemometric Analysis of Bacterial Peptidoglycan Reveals Atypical Modifications which Empower the Cell Wall against Predatory Enzymes and Fly Innate Immunity. Journal of the American Chemical ...

Endolysins are phage‐encoded enzymes that degrade the peptidoglycan layer of bacterial cell walls, a process essential for the release of progeny virions. Their ability to precisely cleave key ...

Most bacterial species synthesize a semi-rigid cell wall surrounding the cytoplasmic membrane, whose main component, peptidoglycan, forms a dense meshwork that encases the cell.

The chromatophore genome works in complement with the host protist genome to make the chromatophore’s peptidoglycan layer. McCutcheon speculated that in both Paulinella and the mealybug- ...

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 ...

The process that allows bacteria to expand and grow while maintaining the strength of the cell walls has been identified as offering a potential new target for antibiotics in a new Nature publication.

The study is part of a Kingdom-wide peptidoglycan -omic research database called The MUREINome, which collects data from thousands of different bacteria species.