Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms ...

The biopolymer peptidoglycan that makes up bacterial cell walls was always assumed to be highly ordered. Textbook images like the one below have shaped our thinking. Robert Turner and his colleagues ...

New insight into bacterial structure to help fight against superbugs Date: April 29, 2020 Source: University of Sheffield Summary: Scientists have produced the first high-resolution images of the ...

Prokaryotic bacteria cell Bacteria are single-celled organisms that thrive in a wide variety of environments, from soil and water to the human gut to extreme habitats like hot springs. 19 Bacteria ...

A long series of experiments, beginning in 1956 and ending around 1980, established an outline of cell wall structure and demonstrated that penicillin inhibited one of the terminal steps in its ...

Bacterial cell division is orchestrated by a tubulin homologue, ... Löwe, J. & Amos, L. A. Crystal structure of the bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ. Nature 391, 203–206 (1998).

Bacteria are different from you and me. Always the minimalists, they lack features that plant and animal cells usually can’t do without: a nucleus, special organelles, and an internal skeleton ...

However, in bacterial single-cell DNA amplification, ... (CSR) to evolve the phi29 DNA polymerase, they modified its structure to enhance its activity, specificity, and stability.

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have produced the first high-resolution images of the structure of the cell wall of bacteria, in a study that could further understanding of ...