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 ...

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.

This diagram shows the three components found surrounding the innards of a gram-negative bacterial cell, including the outer membrane, cell wall and inner membrane. (Image credit: Jeff Dahl, CC BY ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

This diagram shows the three components found surrounding the innards of a gram-negative bacterial cell, including the outer membrane, cell wall and inner membrane. (Image credit: Jeff Dahl, CC BY ...

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 ...