At this time, the whole tail structure shrinks and widens, bringing the internal pin-like tube in contact with the outer membrane of the E. coli cell. As the tail tube punctures the outer and inner ...

Wong and senior author Ariel Amir, assistant professor in Applied Mathematics, began by modeling the mechanics of the E. coli cell wall under constraints that forced the bacteria to grow into the ...

“The structure of the peptidoglycan layer is semi-permeable ... One of these, melittin, a short peptide, binds with higher efficiency to the E. coli cell wall than that of S. aureus. The researchers ...

Researchers have developed a genome-scale model that can accurately predict how E. coli bacteria respond ... environment cause changes in a cell's protein structure. For example, higher ...

Stressed-out E. coli recovers its straight, rod-like shape over time. [Lars D. Renner/Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden, Germany] “This ...

Harming the cell wall causes irreversible damage to the bacterium and eventually kills it. For example, E. coli are rod shaped ... connecting the baglike structure are cross-linked in several ...

Can you imagine eating Escherichia coli for good health? It seems a little crazy ... When the positive-charge of the polymer combines with the negative-charge of the bacteria cell wall, a sort of ...

Treating food products with select bacteriophages - viruses that target and kill bacteria - could significantly reduce concentrations of E. coli ... a host bacterium cell and deploy a syringe-like ...