'Last resort' antibiotic pops bacteria like balloons
Scientists have revealed how an antibiotic of 'last resort' kills bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
May 4, 2021
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News tagged with inner membrane
The tuberculosis pathogen releases its toxin by a novel protein transport system
Six years ago, Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., described the first toxin ever found for the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This toxin, tuberculosis necrotizing toxin, or TNT, became the founding member of a novel ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 8, 2021
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Researchers learn how bacteria protect their protective outer membranes
An international research team discovered a mechanism that disease-causing bacteria use to anchor their protective outer membranes. Their findings could inform strategies to disrupt a microbe's cell structure, ultimately ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 6, 2020
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Protective shield: Membrane-attached protein protects bacteria and chloroplasts from stress
Bacteria and plant cells have adapted to cope with stress. They express specific stress proteins, but how this line of defense works is still unclear. A group of scientists headed by Professor Dirk Schneider of Johannes Gutenberg ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2020
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Mitochondria work much like Tesla battery packs, study finds
For years, scientists assumed that mitochondria—the energy-generating centers of living cells—worked much like household batteries, generating energy from a chemical reaction inside a single chamber or cell. Now, UCLA ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 15, 2019
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Keeping a cell's powerhouse in shape
A German-Swiss team around Professor Oliver Daumke from the MDC has investigated how a protein of the dynamin family deforms the inner mitochondrial membrane. The results, which also shed light on a hereditary disease of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 11, 2019
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New study unravels protection mechanism in bacteria
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have shed fresh light on the mechanism used by certain types of bacteria to protect themselves against attack.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 3, 2019
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A microscopic topographic map of cellular function
The flow of traffic through our nation's highways and byways is meticulously mapped and studied, but less is known about how materials in cells travel. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Missouri is challenging ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 13, 2019
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How a mitochondrial enzyme can trigger cell death
Cytochrome c is a small enzyme that plays an important role in the production of energy by mitochondria. It is also involved in signaling dangerous problems that warrant apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Using solid-state ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 15, 2019
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Researchers uncover mechanism of protein transport in mitochondria
The research labs of Dr. Thomas Becker and Dr. Nikolaus Pfanner from the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Freiburg have reported a function of the metabolite channel of the mitochondrial ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 7, 2019
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