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 ...

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

The researchers are now using the same techniques to understand how antibiotics change the architecture of the cell wall and also how changes in the cell wall are important in antimicrobial resistance ...

New family of bacterial cell wall builders HMS discovery overturns dogma, revealing potential target Date: August 15, 2016 Source: Harvard Medical School ...

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 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 ...

About 100 years ago, the invention of gram staining, which uses special dyes to stain the cell wall, revealed at least two major classes of bacteria: gram-positive and gram-negative.

The experiments were done in E. coli, but the researchers suspect this process is common to all bacteria with cell walls. "We now know what protein is involved in the process," Bernhardt said.

Identifying bacterial cell wall changes that cause antibiotic resistance. The stakes for drug design breakthroughs to treat drug-resistant bacteria are high.

To learn more about why and when bacteria lose their cell wall, Leiden University graduate candidate Véronique Ongenae grew Streptomyces bacteria in a variety of conditions. One of those conditions ...

A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has been discovered by researchers at Umeå university, Sweden. They found that the transporter controls resistance to ...