Scientists have uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide spectrum of antibiotics along ...

By analyzing E. coli protein levels, scientists found a surplus of membrane shuttle proteins that may play a role in antibiotic resistance.

Researchers have been looking for the enzyme that catalases the final step in producing the lipid phosphatidylglycerol, in gram- positive bacteria for decades. The enzyme PgpP was found in Bacillus ...