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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antibiotics are powerful, fast-acting medications designed to eradicate bacterial infections. However, in recent years, their dependability has waned as antibiotic resistant bacteria continues to ...

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

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