Mammalian peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs), similar to antimicrobial lectins, bind the bacterial cell wall and kill bacteria through an unknown mechanism. We show that PGRPs enter the ...

Peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) are innate immunity molecules present in most invertebrate and vertebrate animals, but not in plants. Insects have up to 19 PGRPs, classified into short ...

An accumulation of an unexpected intermediate of the peptidoglycan recycling pathway that is able to modulate the synthesis and structure of the cell wall has been found by researchers at Umeå ...

Jutras found that as the Lyme-causing bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi multiplies, it sheds a cellular component called peptidoglycan that elicits a unique inflammatory response in the body.

Instead, the dye gets trapped in a tight package of sugar-filled polymers, called peptidoglycan, which envelops bacterial cells. The thickness and integrity of the sweet bacterial armor determines ...

In the field of bacteriology, the rapid rise of drug-resistant bacterial infections and the lack of effective antimicrobial ...

In 1884, a bacteriologist named Christian Gram created a test that could determine if a bacterium had a thick, mesh-like surrounding cell membrane called peptidoglycan, which is composed of sugars ...

They found that the biosynthesis of peptidoglycan, core component of the bacterial cell wall, is the driving force during the entire process of cell division. In addition, they clarified how exactly ...

I am interested in three major areas of research. The essential cell wall peptidoglycan polymer network forms a scaffold for the display of a large variety of proteins involved in cell division, ...

According to the release from Virginia Tech, the biochemist, Brandon Jutras, found that as the Lyme-causing bacteria borrelia burgdorferi multiplies, it sheds a cellular component called peptidoglycan ...

One such useful classification – if a bacterium is gram positive or gram negative - is based on the structure of bacterial cell walls. Gram positive bacteria are surrounded by a single thick ...