Mammalian peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs), similar to antimicrobial lectins, bind the bacterial cell wall and kill bacteria through an unknown mechanism. We show that PGRPs enter the ...

Peptidoglycan in bacterial cell walls is sensed by multiple pattern-recognition receptors, including nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 1 (NOD1), NOD2, NOD-, LRR- and pyrin ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that the bacterium that causes Lyme disease has a highly unusual modification in its protective molecular bag -- its peptidoglycan, which is common to all bacteria. You don ...

The answer to why we sleep might not lie solely in our brains, but in the trillions of microscopic organisms living in our intestines. New research from Washington State University has uncovered ...

Virginia Tech biochemist Brandon Jutras has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating and extremely painful condition that is the most common late stage ...

Chronic pain associated with Lyme disease has confounded scientists for many years. Patients will often complain of joint pain even long after the infection from the offending spirochete—Borrelia ...