Bacterial ribosomes are essential for protein synthesis, yet they can become stalled during translation when encountering aberrant mRNAs or premature termination signals. To preserve the efficiency of ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. Led by researchers at Helmholtz Munich ...

In Gram-negative bacteria, which include some of the most devastating human pathogens, just two mechanisms for the export of polysaccharides have been identified so far. Now a research team has ...

What makes distinct species have different proteins? Is there a key that allows eukaryotic cells to produce proteins involved in multicellularity that are mostly absent in prokaryotes? What makes ...

These motility organs play important roles in DNA uptake to exchange genetic information between different bacteria, allowing what's so-called genomic plasticity. Therefore, bacterial motility organs ...

Physicists at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, identified a simple mechanism deadly bacteria use to fend off antibiotics, a study published in Nature Communications Biology found. The ...