New Cell Envelope Tethering Mechanism

Tuesday, November 3, 2020 NIAID Scientists and Colleagues Reveal New Tethering Mechanism in a Gram-Negative Cell Envelope NIAID researchers and colleagues have discovered a mechanism that some bacteria, such as those that cause Q fever and Legionaries disease, use to assemble their cell envelope. Their study in Nature Microbiology explains how these pathogens use many different membrane proteins, called "porins," to tether the outer membrane to the bacterial cell wall. These findings offer a new perspective on bacterial cell structure, which is important for development of new antimicrobial therapies. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases  |  National Institutes of Health Update your subscriptions, modify your password or e-mail address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your e-mail address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact Subscriber Help. This service is provided to you at no charge by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).                             This email was sent to myhcistech.healthnews360@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 5601 Fishers Lane · Bethesda, MD 20892 · 1-866-284-4107