Antibacterial drug discovery in the resistance era

ED Brown, GD Wright - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The looming antibiotic-resistance crisis has penetrated the consciousness of clinicians,
researchers, policymakers, politicians and the public at large. The evolution and widespread …

Lipopolysaccharide modification in Gram-negative bacteria during chronic infection

RF Maldonado, I Sá-Correia… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a major component of the outer
membrane that plays a key role in host–pathogen interactions with the innate immune …

The BioGRID interaction database: 2015 update

A Chatr-Aryamontri, BJ Breitkreutz… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID:
http://thebiogrid. org) is an open access database that houses genetic and protein …

Biosynthesis and export of bacterial lipopolysaccharides

C Whitfield, MS Trent - Annual review of biochemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Lipopolysaccharide molecules represent a unique family of glycolipids based on a highly
conserved lipid moiety known as lipid A. These molecules are produced by most gram …

The binary protein-protein interaction landscape of Escherichia coli

SV Rajagopala, P Sikorski, A Kumar, R Mosca… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Efforts to map the Escherichia coli interactome have identified several hundred
macromolecular complexes, but direct binary protein-protein interactions (PPIs) have not …

Towards revealing the functions of all genes in plants

SY Rhee, M Mutwil - Trends in plant science, 2014 - cell.com
The great recent progress made in identifying the molecular parts lists of organisms
revealed the paucity of our understanding of what most of the parts do. In this review, we …

Three redundant murein endopeptidases catalyse an essential cleavage step in peptidoglycan synthesis of Escherichia coli K12

SK Singh, L SaiSree, RN Amrutha… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial peptidoglycan (PG or murein) is a single, large, covalently cross‐linked
macromolecule and forms a mesh‐like sacculus that completely encases the cytoplasmic …

Global landscape of cell envelope protein complexes in Escherichia coli

M Babu, C Bundalovic-Torma, C Calmettes… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Bacterial cell envelope protein (CEP) complexes mediate a range of processes, including
membrane assembly, antibiotic resistance and metabolic coordination. However, only …

Hierarchical modularity and the evolution of genetic interactomes across species

CJ Ryan, A Roguev, K Patrick, J Xu, H Jahari, Z Tong… - Molecular cell, 2012 - cell.com
To date, cross-species comparisons of genetic interactomes have been restricted to small or
functionally related gene sets, limiting our ability to infer evolutionary trends. To facilitate a …

Synthesis of lipopolysaccharide O-antigens by ABC transporter-dependent pathways

LK Greenfield, C Whitfield - Carbohydrate research, 2012 - Elsevier
The O-polysaccharide (O-PS; O-antigen) of bacterial lipopolysaccharides is made up of
repeating units of one or more sugar residues and displays remarkable structural diversity …