Membrane lipids: where they are and how they behave

G Van Meer, DR Voelker, GW Feigenson - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2008 - nature.com
Throughout the biological world, a 30 Å hydrophobic film typically delimits the environments
that serve as the margin between life and death for individual cells. Biochemical and …

Structure, function, and evolution of bacterial ATP-binding cassette systems

AL Davidson, E Dassa, C Orelle… - … and molecular biology …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY ATP-binding cassette (ABC) systems are universally distributed among living
organisms and function in many different aspects of bacterial physiology. ABC transporters …

Protein glycosylation in bacteria: sweeter than ever

H Nothaft, CM Szymanski - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
Investigations into bacterial protein glycosylation continue to progress rapidly. It is now
established that bacteria possess both N-linked and O-linked glycosylation pathways that …

An engineered eukaryotic protein glycosylation pathway in Escherichia coli

JD Valderrama-Rincon, AC Fisher, JH Merritt… - Nature chemical …, 2012 - nature.com
We performed bottom-up engineering of a synthetic pathway in Escherichia coli for the
production of eukaryotic trimannosyl chitobiose glycans and the transfer of these glycans to …

Synthase-dependent exopolysaccharide secretion in Gram-negative bacteria

JC Whitney, PL Howell - Trends in microbiology, 2013 - cell.com
The biosynthesis and export of bacterial cell-surface polysaccharides is known to occur
through several distinct mechanisms. Recent advances in the biochemistry and structural …

MurJ and a novel lipid II flippase are required for cell wall biogenesis in Bacillus subtilis

AJ Meeske, LT Sham, H Kimsey… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Bacterial surface polysaccharides are synthesized from lipid-linked precursors at the inner
surface of the cytoplasmic membrane before being translocated across the bilayer for …