Bacterial infection requires rapid division of bacterial cells, for which cell wall synthesis is needed. To understand bacterial cell division, let us use the children’s game LEGO as a ...

Phosphorylated Slt2 activates the transcription factor Rlm1 and the SBF complex (Swi4/6), triggering a transcriptional response that elicit changes at cell wall level. Phosphoinositide synthesis (in ...

Bacteria have developed many strategies to defend themselves from phages — the viruses that infect them. The Zorya defence system uses a previously undescribed antiviral strategy. An inner ...

Purification is based on spin column chromatography using Bio-Synthesis proprietary resin as the separation matrix. The process involves first pelleting the urine bacterial cells, and then lysing ...

We cover examples from studies of bacterial cellulose, primary cell walls, and secondary cell walls. In addition to estimates from real-space images, estimates of microfibril dimensions have been ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...

The enzymes produced by the phage gradually weaken the bacterial cell wall and eventually the bacterial cells lyse, releasing on average 100-200 phage progeny into the surrounding environment. Due to ...

coli bacteria produces an enzyme which breaks the contents of their cells down into nutrients after death. The dead bacteria are therefore offering a banquet of nutrients to the cells that were ...

The cell showed significantly lower contaminant-induced degradation that unprotected reference devices. Scientists from Australia's University of New South Wales (UNSW) have sought to reduce ...

Bacteria built it: A 3D rendering captured using a confocal microscope shows the development of serpentine “cables” as non-motile E. coli bacterial cells proliferate in a polymeric solution. (Courtesy ...

This new work builds on that base to do exactly that. The researchers instructed bacteria cells to produce ELPs that form condensates and also bind to specific RNA sequences, which copy and carry ...