How to enter a bacterium: bacterial porins and the permeation of antibiotics

JD Prajapati, U Kleinekathöfer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Despite tremendous successes in the field of antibiotic discovery seen in the previous
century, infectious diseases have remained a leading cause of death. More specifically …

Emerging diversity in lipid–protein interactions

V Corradi, BI Sejdiu, H Mesa-Galloso… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Membrane lipids interact with proteins in a variety of ways, ranging from providing a stable
membrane environment for proteins to being embedded in to detailed roles in complicated …

Phase separation in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli

G Benn, IV Mikheyeva, PG Inns… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Gram-negative bacteria are surrounded by a protective outer membrane (OM) with
phospholipids in its inner leaflet and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in its outer leaflet. The OM is …

Role of the lipid bilayer in outer membrane protein folding in Gram-negative bacteria

JE Horne, DJ Brockwell, SE Radford - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
β-Barrel outer membrane proteins (OMPs) represent the major proteinaceous component of
the outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria. These proteins perform key roles in …

Biomolecular simulations: From dynamics and mechanisms to computational assays of biological activity

DJ Huggins, PC Biggin, MA Dämgen… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biomolecular simulation is increasingly central to understanding and designing biological
molecules and their interactions. Detailed, physics‐based simulation methods are …

OmpA: a flexible clamp for bacterial cell wall attachment

F Samsudin, ML Ortiz-Suarez, TJ Piggot, PJ Bond… - Structure, 2016 - cell.com
The envelope of Gram-negative bacteria is highly complex, containing separate outer and
inner membranes and an intervening periplasmic space encompassing a peptidoglycan …

Molecular dynamics simulations of membrane proteins: An overview

K Goossens, H De Winter - Journal of chemical information and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Simulations of membrane proteins have been rising in popularity in the past decade.
Advancements in technology and force fields made it possible to simulate behavior of …

Adaptation of the periplasm to maintain spatial constraints essential for cell envelope processes and cell viability

E Mandela, CJ Stubenrauch, D Ryoo, H Hwang… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria consists of two membranes surrounding a
periplasm and peptidoglycan layer. Molecular machines spanning the cell envelope depend …

The type IX secretion system is required for virulence of the fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum

P Barbier, T Rochat, HH Mohammed… - Applied and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Flavobacterium psychrophilum causes bacterial cold-water disease in wild and aquaculture-
reared fish and is a major problem for salmonid aquaculture. The mechanisms responsible …

Molecular simulations of Gram-negative bacterial membranes come of age

W Im, S Khalid - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Gram-negative bacteria are protected by a multicompartmental molecular architecture
known as the cell envelope that contains two membranes and a thin cell wall. As the cell …