The membrane composition defines the spatial organization and function of a major Acinetobacter baumannii drug efflux system

M Zang, H MacDermott-Opeskin, FG Adams, V Naidu… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… the biophysical properties of the membrane beyond that studied in standard … the membrane
phospholipid composition impacts membrane protein function, which includes an important

The Outer Membrane of Acinetobacter: Structure-Function Relationships

P Borneleit, HP Kleber - The Biology of Acinetobacter: Taxonomy, Clinical …, 1991 - Springer
Acinetobacter in the strict sense. Since the early seventies, much knowledge has accumulated
on the structure and function of outer membranes, … their ollter membrane organisation may …

Crystal structure of the Acinetobacter baumannii outer membrane protein Omp33

J Abellón-Ruiz, M Zahn, A Baslé… - … Section D: Structural …, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
Acinetobacter baumannii is becoming a major threat to human health due to its multidrug
resistance. This is owing in a large part to the low permeability of its outer membraneimportant

Pathogenic Acinetobacter: from the cell surface to infinity and beyond

BS Weber, CM Harding, MF Feldman - Journal of bacteriology, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
… on the lipid A structure of Acinetobacter spp. and … defined role of type II secretion in
Acinetobacter, it was demonstrated previously that gspN homologs were not required for a …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of the Acinetobacter baumannii inner membrane under exogenous polyunsaturated fatty acid stress

HI MacDermott-Opeskin, A Panizza… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
membrane modification on membrane organisation and biophysical properties using coarse
grained MARTINI simulations of chemically representative membranelipid compositions

The structure of PilA from Acinetobacter baumannii AB5075 suggests a mechanism for functional specialization in Acinetobacter type IV pili

LA Ronish, E Lillehoj, JK Fields, EJ Sundberg… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
… In this paper, we compare the structure and function of pilin proteins from three strains of A.
baumannii: (i) ACICU (also known as H34), an epidemic, multidrug-resistant strain belonging …

Growth Phase- and Desiccation-Dependent Acinetobacter baumannii Morphology: An Atomic Force Microscopy Investigation

S Bashiri, M Lucidi, D Visaggio, G Capecchi… - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a major bacterial pathogen during the past three
decades. The majority of the A. baumannii infections occur in hospitals and are caused by …

The secrets of Acinetobacter secretion

BS Weber, RL Kinsella, CM Harding, MF Feldman - Trends in microbiology, 2017 - cell.com
… well defined, but recent research has indicated that secreted proteins may play a major role.
A … species require a type ii secretion system and specific membrane-associated chaperones …

Structural diversity in the type IV pili of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter

KH Piepenbrink, E Lillehoj, CM Harding… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative coccobacillus … the major pilin subunit, PilA,
from three Acinetobacter strains, … host-cell adhesion by Acinetobacter. Comparisons of genomic …

Cell Envelopes with Regularly Arranged Surface Subunits in Acinetobacter and Related Bacteria

MJ Thornley, ME Bayer - CRC Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 1975 - Taylor & Francis
… The fine structure of the cell envelopes of the Acinetobacter … of Acinetobacter MJT/FS/S,
showing the plasma membrane (… ) has appeared well defined and more distinct than in …