The cell wall of bacteria helps keep toxins such as antibiotics out. Now, researchers have discovered a key mechanism that bacteria use to build their cell walls, which could present a new target ...

The paper, by Ben Chung at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and colleagues was titled, "Crystal Structure of MraY, an Essential Membrane Enzyme for Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis ...

PopA protein breaks structural rules, revealing new bacterial membrane behaviors, protein folding twists, and potential ...