Protein complex in bacterial cell membrane acts like a rotary motor to recruit DNA-degrading enzymes to defend against phage ...

The extensive use of antibiotics ... harming human cells. A distinguishing feature of bacterial cells is the presence of a cell wall that forms a sheath over the cell membrane.

Antibiotics ... cells differ fundamentally in their structure from animal and human cells. For example, bacteria have a rigid cell wall, whereas human cells are surrounded only by a simple membrane.

Scientists have discovered an Achilles heel within our cells that bacteria ... need to use antibiotics.” The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ...

Photodynamic inactivation using curcumin shows promise in reducing antibiotic resistance diversity in Staphylococcus aureus, ...

The bacterial ... of different antibiotic exclusion strategies in bacteria from clinical infections. We are also following up key findings that manipulation of two regulators in K. pneumoniae ...

Complementary discoveries have the potential to enhance treatment options for antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers at ...

a family of multi-protein complexes that span the bacterial cell membranes and act like bilge pumps that flush antibiotics out of the cell (Fig. 1). Indole carboxamide efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs ...

Valeri is the first author of a recent paper published in Cell ... the membranes of so-called "gram-negative" bacteria, which ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study published in the journal Nature ...

The data suggests that the body's use of nutrient scarcity as a defense mechanism may actually enable bacteria's survival in the long run.

For example, structures called "efflux pumps" in the cell membrane allow bacterial cells to pump out antibiotics that get inside the cell. Bacterial cells can also make enzymes that chemically ...