Lipopolysaccharides articles within Nature

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• Letter | 20 March 2019

  Structural basis of unidirectional export of lipopolysaccharide to the cell surface

  Crystal structures of a five-protein complex comprising the inner-membrane components of the bacterial lipopolysaccharide transporter provide insight into the mechanism of extraction of lipopolysaccharide from the inner membrane and its transport to the outer membrane.

  • Tristan W. Owens
  • , Rebecca J. Taylor
  •  & Daniel Kahne

• Article | 06 September 2017

  Structural basis of MsbA-mediated lipopolysaccharide transport

  Cryo-electron microscopy snapshots of the E. coli flippase MsbA at discrete functional states reveal a ‘trap and flip’ mechanism for lipopolysaccharide flipping and the conformational transitions of MsbA during its substrate transport cycle.

  • Wei Mi
  • , Yanyan Li
  •  & Maofu Liao

• Letter | 06 November 2013

  Chasing acyl carrier protein through a catalytic cycle of lipid A production

  The crystal structures of three forms of Escherichia coli acyl carrier protein engaging LpxD, an acyltransferase in the lipid A biosynthetic pathway, are reported.

  • Ali Masoudi
  • , Christian R. H. Raetz
  •  & Charles W. Pemble IV