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 antimicrobials—molecules ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2023
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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 by researchers at Umeå University, Sweden.
Cell & Microbiology
May 18, 2020
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A significant breakthrough has just been made in the world of biochemistry: a team of international researchers has developed a revolutionary method to monitor in real time an essential element of bacterial growth.
Biochemistry
Feb 27, 2019
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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 Radboud University, Umeå ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 12, 2015
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Scientists have identified a protein that is essential to the survival of E. coli bacteria, and consider the protein a potential new target for antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 10, 2014
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The spread of multi-resistant pathogens is of increasing concern to medical researchers and laypeople alike. Yet it is expensive and time-consuming to develop new antibiotics. Researchers at the Universities of Tübingen ...
Biochemistry
Feb 11, 2014
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Biochemical sleuthing by an Indiana University graduate student has ended a nearly 50-year-old search to find a megamolecule in bacterial cell walls commonly used as a target for antibiotics, but whose presence had never ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 11, 2013
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(Phys.org)—An international team of scientists led by Indiana University chemist Michael S. VanNieuwenhze and biologist Yves Brun has discovered a revolutionary new method for coloring the cell wall of bacterial cells to ...
Biochemistry
Oct 10, 2012
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms that inhabit almost every environment on the planet, including the bodies of humans and animals. The cell wall maintains the structural integrity of the cell, and enables the bacteria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 6, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the best drugs become increasingly resistant to superbugs, McMaster University researchers have discovered a completely different way of looking for a new antibiotic.
Biochemistry
May 28, 2009
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