Highlights•Menaquinones (MKs) are involved in bacterial electron transport and
adaptation.•The Men pathway is the most predominant of two bacterial pathways to make …

Bacterial quinones are lipophilic redox compounds involved in important cellular roles such
as electron transport in respiratory and photosynthetic chains. However, a growing body of …

Our inability to predict which mutations could result in antibiotic resistance has made it
difficult to rapidly identify the emergence of resistance, identify pre-existing resistant …

Metal complexes with biological activity are of increasing importance in medicine as
potential alternatives for biologically active organic compounds, which often show severe …

Although rhenium (Re) is a rare element, it is an economically important one due to its use
as a catalyst in the chemical preparation of gasoline and in technologically vital alloys. While …

Lipoquinones are the topic of this review and are a class of hydrophobic lipid molecules with
key biological functions that are linked to their structure, properties, and location within a …

Menaquinones are a class of isoprenoid molecules that have important roles in human
biology and bacterial electron transport, and multiple methods have been developed for …

In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, proline dehydrogenase (PruB) and∆ 1-pyrroline-5-
carboxylate (P5C) dehydrogenase (PruA) are monofunctional enzymes that catalyze proline …

Tuberculosis remains the world's top infectious killer: it caused a total of 1.5 million deaths
and 10 million people fell ill with TB in 2018. Thanks to TB diagnosis and treatment, mortality …

The intracellular membrane domain (IMD) in mycobacteria is a spatially distinct region of the
plasma membrane with diverse functions. Previous comparative proteomic analysis of the …