Using high magnification imaging, a team of researchers has identified several never before seen structures in bacteria that represent molecular machinery.

Clusters of a toxic bacterial protein have a surprising structure, differing from similar clumps associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in humans, scientists report in the Feb. 24 Science ...

Yu and his research group have just described two structures and mechanisms – efflux pumps and reinforced cell walls – that certain disease-causing bacteria use to keep antibiotics away. That ...

Textbook images show peptidoglycan as straight and ordered. The biopolymer peptidoglycan that makes up bacterial cell walls was always assumed to be highly ordered. Textbook images like the one below ...

MIT chemists have discovered the structure of a protein that can pump toxic molecules out of bacterial cells. Proteins similar to this one, which is found in E. coli, are believed to help bacteria ...

A 50-year-old mystery surrounding the existence of a cell wall in the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis, or chlamydia, has been solved. Chlamydia is the leading cause of sexually ...

Illustration of the bacteria cell structure. Image Credit: BlueRingMedia / Shutterstock The structure of the flagellum differs depending on if it is in prokaryotes or eukaryotes.