"Escherichia coli are great to demonstrate such effects ... could be due to localized membrane tension and local cell wall thickening. "The division site becomes much stiffer than the surrounding ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The ...

aureus and Escherichia coli showing their cleavage by various ... when we investigated the immunological specificity of the cell wall of S. aureus. Rabbit antisera prepared against cell walls ...

Light and electron microscopy each have their distinct limitations – with light it becomes increasingly difficult to resolve ...