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Engineered Artificial Nanochannels with Cell Membrane Nanointerface for Ultrasensitive Detection and Discrimination of Multiple Bacterial Infections
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, College of Chemistry and ...
C&EN27d
AIE Photosensitizer with Tuned Membrane Interactions for Effective-Gram-Negative Bacteria Elimination
School of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei 230026, China CAS Key Laboratory for Nano-Bio Interface, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and ...
Frontiers3y
Gene Sets and Mechanisms of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria Biofilm Formation and Quorum Sensing With Impact on Corrosion
Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) have a unique ability to respire under anaerobic conditions using sulfate as a terminal electron acceptor, reducing it to hydrogen sulfide. SRB thrives in many natural ...
Frontiers5y
Protein Amphipathic Helix Insertion: A Mechanism to Induce Membrane Fission
2016) and bacterial magnetosomes (Uebe and Schüler ... Fission-inducing proteins are usually present on the cytoplasmic side of the membrane. Figure 2. Mechanisms of membrane fission. Membrane fission ...
eLife6y
Insights into the key determinants of membrane protein topology enable the identification of new monotopic folds
The observation that substitution of both conserved positive charges caused the N-terminus to lose some of its proclivity for cytoplasmic ... that bitopic membrane proteins constitute 15–25% of all ...
eLife7y
Infectious polymorphic toxins delivered by outer membrane exchange discriminate kin in myxobacteria
Upon recognition, cells exchange resources by briefly fusing their outer membranes. This allows bacteria to help to rejuvenate damaged sibling cells by delivering healthy cell components to them. Now, ...