A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

The purpose of this practical is to investigate the effect of antiseptics or antibiotics on bacterial growth using agar plates and measuring zones of inhibition. This allows the selected bacteria ...

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 ...

The bactericidal action of vancomycin results primarily from inhibition of cell-wall biosynthesis. In addition, vancomycin alters bacterial-cell-membrane permeability and RNA synthesis.

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 ...