A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has been discovered by researchers at Umeå university, Sweden. They found that the transporter controls resistance to ...

There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect the microbes' biology and their vulnerability to different ...

It was long thought that when the membrane of a cell lost its integrity and broke down, the cell would die; cells cannot survive without a cell wall. Many antibiotics target the cell wall of bacteria, ...

A research team led by Dr. Manjula Reddy at Hyderabad’s Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has discovered a ...

Scientists at CCMB discover bacteria's vulnerability to antibiotics due to mistakes in cell wall synthesis, offering new treatment possibilities.

To recycle muropeptides, some bacteria use a membrane transporter called AmpG. However, many bacteria don't have this transporter, and so it is not known how or if they recycle their cell wall.

Cell wall synthesis plays a key role in bacterial growth: the cell division protein FtsZ forms the so-called Z-ring in the center of the cell, thus initiating the division process.

Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered in mouse models how cell walls from certain pneumonia-causing bacteria can cause fatal heart damage; researchers have also ...

Most bacterial species synthesize a semi-rigid cell wall surrounding the cytoplasmic membrane, whose main component, peptidoglycan, forms a dense meshwork that encases the cell.

Bacteria cell wall is very different from human cell wall When combating infectious bacteria, there are only a limited number of targets to attack. Targets found in both bacterial and human cells ...

Bacterial cell wall synthesis and division represent central themes in microbiology, as these processes underpin cellular integrity, morphology and reproduction. The dynamic interplay between the ...