Bacteriophages or “phages” are viruses that infect and kill bacteria, and are currently being considered for treatments of a variety of bacterial infections. Bacteriophage 80alpha infects ...

The Trojan horse of Staphylococcus aureus The infectious bacterium diverts to its advantage a structure set up by human cells, in order to destroy them and invade the organism Date: November 20, 2018 ...

Article Open access Published: 18 March 2016 Structure and mechanism of the essential two-component signal-transduction system WalKR in Staphylococcus aureus Quanjiang Ji, Peter J. Chen, Guangrong ...

Using high-resolution (1,6 Å) X-ray structure analysis, we solved the structure of the domain of HPF from Staphylococcus aureus, which regulates the dimerization of ribosomes and keeps in their ...

Synopsis Enzymes synthesizing the bacterial capsular polysaccharide (CP) are attractive antimicrobial targets. However, we lack critical information about the structure and mechanism of many of them.

The 11 different proteins that make up each virus particle are found in multiple copies that assemble together. For instance, the capsid is made of 235 copies each of two proteins, and the other ...

Scientists at the University of Western Ontario have uncovered a bacterial mystery. Against all logic, the most predominant strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in North ...