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 ...

Mutations in the pedestal domain of the cell division protein FtsI alter how Pseudomonas aeruginosa regulates septal cell wall synthesis and can either increase or decrease its susceptibility to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bacterial species, and even specific strains can be differentiated using a number of molecular techniques such as PCR, quantitative PCR, genome sequencing and mass spectrometry. But even without ...

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 ...