Bacteria encode a conserved set of proteolytic complexes: Clp, FtsH, Lon, HslUV, high-temperature requirement A serine protease (HtrA) and the prokaryotic proteasome. These enzymes consist of two ...

Home News Proteolytic Mechanisms Controlling Bacterial Growth Uncovered October 9, 2015 UMass Amherst molecular biologists say newly idientified regulatory adaptors work in a step-wise ...

Microorganisms offer a wide variety of proteolytic enzymes, absent in animals and plants, of use for many practical applications whilst also being easy to cultivate and alter for specific uses. ...

Weak spot in pathogenic bacteria ClpX-ClpP protein complex could be starting point for new antibiotics Date: October 4, 2019 Source: Technical University of Munich (TUM) ...

In the ongoing battle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, MSU researchers have made a discovery that could reshape how we ...

Discovery of a proteolytic flagellin family in diverse bacterial phyla that assembles enzymatically active flagella. Nature Communications , 2017; 8 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00599-0 Cite This ...

Antibiotics are still the most important weapon for combatting bacterial infections. But medical science is running out of "ammunition" because of more and more frequently occurring resistances.