The biopolymer peptidoglycan that makes up bacterial cell walls was always assumed to be highly ordered. Textbook images like the one below have shaped our thinking. Robert Turner and his colleagues ...

Most species of bacteria can be broadly divided into two groups, known as gram-positive and gram-negative. These categories ...

In this simplified diagram of gram staining, bacterial cells are first treated with a purple dye called crystal violet. The dye gets into the cells’ peptidoglycan layer (gray), tinting it purple.

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

New transporter for recycling of bacterial cell wall found. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 01 / 230126100255.htm. Umea University.

The bacterial cell wall must be constantly remodeled in order to grow and divide. This involves the close coordination of lytic enzymes and peptidoglycan synthesis. Researchers led by Martin ...

The bacterial cell wall must be constantly remodeled in order to grow and divide. This involves the close coordination of lytic enzymes and peptidoglycan synthesis. In their study published in ...

Most bacterial species synthesize a semi-rigid cell wall surrounding the cytoplasmic membrane, whose main component, peptidoglycan, forms a dense meshwork that encases the cell. In addition to its ...

Cell wall synthesis plays a key role in bacterial growth: the cell division protein FtsZ forms the so-called Z-ring in the center of the cell, thus initiating the division process.