Planctomycetes challenge our concept of the bacterial cell and of a prokaryote as a cell structure type, as well as our ideas about origins of the eukaryote nucleus. Planctomycetes Are Important ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Students could make models of bacterial cells out of balloons. They could label them with the parts of cells and include relevant functions. After watching this short film, students could repeat ...

has been published in the journal Molecular Cell. These bacterial enzymes, referred to as ubiquitin clippases, split the ubiquitin molecule into two parts in such a way that the released fragment ...

The authors report that it has an active role in cellular self-defence, generating peptides that act as natural antibiotics against a wide range of bacteria. Read the paper: Cell-autonomous innate ...