Some of these proteins have kinase, phosphatase, or actin-binding activity, and once in the epithelial cell cytosol, they alter host cell signaling pathways that promote changes in the cytoskeleton, ...

To do that, they developed a polymer coating that integrates with the bacterial cell membrane and chemically modified cell membranes with the catalytic polymers. “We took a common industrial ...

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden published a study “Breaking barriers: pCF10 type 4 secretion system relies on a self-regulating muramidase to modulate the cell wall” in mBIO that ...

For instance, dendritic cells in the intestine's mucosa (inner layer) capture harmful bacteria by extending ... to the reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton of dendritic cells, inducing ...

A recent study by Okayama University researchers found that short-chain fatty acids produced by intestinal bacteria trigger ... of the actin cytoskeleton of dendritic cells, inducing morphological ...

But scientists don’t understand a fundamental process within bacteria cells: how they organize themselves before division. When cells divide the cell splits into two “daughter cells” with the same ...

Organelles, whose bacterial predecessors possessed their own genetic material, have significantly reduced their genome, meaning that they have become increasingly dependent on the host cell over time.

In a recent study published in Nature Methods, researchers assessed a novel method for bacterial cell segmentation named Omnipose. Breakthroughs in microscopy are extremely promising for enabling ...

Researchers have discovered that septins -- a part of the cytoskeleton ... of the bacteria. Surrounded by nutrients and undetected by the immune system, the interior of a cell is the ideal ...

Surrounded by nutrients and undetected by the immune system, the interior of a cell is the ideal place for pathogenic bacteria to reproduce ... Septins are part of the cytoskeleton and serve ...

Many antibiotics target the cell wall of bacteria, while some immune proteins can form a membrane attack complex that punches holes in pathogens, for example. But a few years ago, researchers ...

R. Gaudet et al. / Science 2021 When bacteria get past our immune cells, the body has one more trick up its sleeve. The nonimmune cells join the fight by unleashing a soap-like protein that takes ...