Sentences with phrase «bacterial outer membrane»

Jeremy Lakey, Professor of Structural Biochemistry at Newcastle University who led the study explains: «Our model of the bacterial outer membrane can be used as a simulator to test how antibiotic molecules can be made to cross this critical barrier.

I discovered that hopanoids interact with glycolipids in bacterial outer membranes to form a highly ordered bilayer in a manner analogous to the interaction of sterols with sphingolipids in eukaryotic plasma membranes (Saenz et al., 2015).

Not exact matches

They also showed that the cephalosporinases are exported out of the bacterial cells, attached to the surface of special packages called outer membrane vesicles (OMVs).

GLIC has several large sub-units that lie outside the bacterial membrane in the outer part of the cell.

As a part of the innate immune system, Cd14 helps the body respond to bacterial infections by producing a protein that binds to lipopolysaccharides within the outer membranes of some bacteria.

This work zeroes in on trying to stop construction of a bacterial cell layer called peptidoglycan, a mesh - like structure that, in gram - negative bacteria like E. coli, rests between the inner and outer cell membranes.

Results: A recent study of the contaminant - reducing bacterium Shewanella oneidensis provides the first evidence that the microbe maneuvers proteins within the bacterial cell into its outer membrane to contact metal directly.

The decreased protection in IgG1 - deficient mice correlates with less efficient bacterial opsonization and uptake by macrophages, and this reflects the low binding of outer membrane protein OmpD - specific IgG2a to the bacterial surface.