Cryo‐electron microscopy (cryo‐EM) is increasingly becoming a mainstream technology for
studying the architecture of cells, viruses and protein assemblies at molecular resolution …

Three‐dimensional (3D) structural analysis is essential to understand the relationship
between the structure and function of an object. Many analytical techniques, such as X‐ray …

Extension of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to nanoscale samples has been a
longstanding challenge because of the insensitivity of conventional detection methods. We …

The first stages of productive bacteriophage infections of bacterial host cells require efficient
adsorption to the cell surface followed by ejection of phage DNA into the host cytoplasm. To …

Many proteins reside at the cell poles in rod-shaped bacteria. Several hypotheses have
drawn a connection between protein localization and the large cell-wall curvature at the …

Bacterial physiology is a branch of biology that aims to understand overarching principles of
cellular reproduction. Many important issues in bacterial physiology are inherently …

An interesting concept in the organization of cellular membranes is the proposed existence
of lipid rafts. Membranes of eukaryotic cells organize signal transduction proteins into …

Magnetotactic bacteria (MB) are remarkable organisms with the ability to exploit the earth's
magnetic field for navigational purposes. To do this, they build specialized compartments …

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) confronts a challenge to accommodate long, smooth ER
tubules into the structural complexity of the axonal compartment. Here, we describe a …

Chlamydiae are important pathogens and symbionts with unique cell biological features.
They lack the cell-division protein FtsZ, and the existence of peptidoglycan (PG) in their cell …