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Discovery of new biosynthetic pathways: the lipid A story

Journal of Lipid Research, 2009
The outer monolayer of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria consists of the lipid A component of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a glucosamine-based saccharolipid that is assembled on the inner surface of the inner membrane.
Christian R.H. Raetz, Ziqiang Guan, Brian O. Ingram, David A. Six, Feng Song, Xiaoyuan Wang, Jinshi Zhao   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

How does lysozyme penetrate through the bacterial outer membrane? [PDF]

, 1976
Bernard Witholt, Harm van Heerikhuizen, Loe de Leij   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Body Biofluids for Minimally‐Invasive Diagnostics: Insights, Challenges, Emerging Technologies, and Clinical Potential

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Recent advances in diagnostics have accelerated the development of miniaturized wearable technologies for the continuous monitoring of diseases. This paradigm is shifting healthcare away from invasive, centralized blood tests toward decentralized monitoring, using alternative body biofluids.
Lanka Tata Rao, Chandan Kumar Mandal, Fernando Patolsky   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural insights into the secretin complex of a type IVb pilus system

Nature Communications
The bundle-forming pilus (BFP) system in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) produces type IVb pili that enable bacterial auto-aggregation, facilitating bacterial adhesion, colonization, and virulence.
Chenchen Pei, Hui Sun, Yinliang Qi, Xiaomei Li, Zhixiong Fang, Manjuan Tang, Rujing Zhang, Zhaofeng Yan, Meng Yin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The structure of the PapD-PapGII pilin complex reveals an open and flexible P5 pocket [PDF]

, 2012
P pili are hairlike polymeric structures that mediate binding of uropathogenic Escherichia coli to the surface of the kidney via the PapG adhesin at their tips.
Baga M, Bann JG, Barnhart MM, Dodson KW, Dodson KW, Doublie S, Gong M, Griebling TL, Henderson NS, Hess B, Holmgren A, Hooton TM, Hultgren SJ, Hung DL, Hung DL, Hung DL, Jacob-Dubuisson F, Jones CH, Justice SS, Kabsch W, Knight SD, Kuehn MJ, Kuehn MJ, Leslie A, Martinez JJ, Munera D, Nishiyama M, Painter J, Pellecchia M, Phan G, Remaut H, Remaut H, Roberts JA, Roberts JA, Rose RJ, Sauer FG, Sauer FG, Sauer FG, Saulino ET, Saulino ET, Sheldrick GM, Slonim LN, Striker R, Stromberg N, Verger D, Verger D, Volkan E, Wright KJ, Zavialov AV   +48 more
core   +2 more sources

Natural and engineered bacterial outer membrane vesicles

Biophysics Reports, 2019
Bacterial outer membrane vesicle (OMV) is a kind of spherical lipid bilayer nanostructure naturally secreted by bacteria, which has diverse functions such as intracellular and extracellular communication, horizontal gene transfer, transfer of contents ...
Guangchao Qing, N. Gong, Xiaohui Chen, J. Chen, Hong Zhang, Yongchao Wang, Ruifang Wang, Shouwen Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Xianxian Zhao, Yang Luo, Xing-jie Liang   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transparent Multifunctional Wearable Strain Sensor With Self‐Healing and Antibacterial Capabilities for Human Motion Detection

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A transparent dual‐network strain sensor integrates robust mechanical properties, room‐temperature self‐healing, and stable performance under sub‐zero conditions and prolonged storage. Its excellent biocompatibility and antimicrobial properties enable safe skin contact.
Wenqing Chen, Wei Huang, Rohit Gupta, Abbas Heydari, Biswajoy Bagchi, Lulu Xu, Yang Xue, Eirini Velliou, Manish K Tiwari   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing from MOFs and COFs to Functional Macroscopic Porous Constructs

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review study investigates the recent progress and methodologies for manufacturing metal–organic framework (MOF) or covalent–organic framework (COF)‐based 3D structured macroscopic porous constructs with high structural integrity, providing the possibility to control their porosity across dimensions.
Seyyed Alireza Hashemi, Ahmadreza Ghaffarkhah, Ali Akbar Isari, Mahyar Panahi‐Sarmad, Feng Jiang, Orlando J. Rojas, Stefan Wuttke, Mircea Dincă, Mohammad Arjmand   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalysis

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides an overview of recent advances in covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for photocatalysis, focusing on sustainable energy applications like water splitting, hydrogen peroxide generation, and CO2 and N2 reduction. It discusses design principles, structure‐function relationships, challenges in COF photocatalysis, and strategies to ...
Bikash Mishra, Akhtar Alam, Avanti Chakraborty, Bidhan Kumbhakar, Samrat Ghosh, Pradip Pachfule, Arne Thomas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Porphyromonas gingivalis Outer Membrane Vesicles Mediate Coaggregation and Piggybacking of Treponema denticola and Lachnoanaerobaculum saburreum

International Journal of Dentistry, 2013
Porphyromonas gingivalis sheds outer membrane vesicles that contain several virulence factors, including adhesins. In this study, we investigated the ability of P.
Daniel Grenier
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