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  19 March 2024 | Open Access

  Structure–function analysis of PorX_Fj, the PorX homolog from Flavobacterium johnsioniae, suggests a role of the CheY-like domain in type IX secretion motor activity

  • Mariotte Zammit
  • , Julia Bartoli
  •  & Philippe Leone

• Article
  19 March 2022 | Open Access

  A role for the periplasmic adaptor protein AcrA in vetting substrate access to the RND efflux transporter AcrB

  • Ilyas Alav
  • , Vassiliy N. Bavro
  •  & Jessica M. A. Blair

• Article
  07 January 2022 | Open Access

  Distinct soil bacterial patterns along narrow and broad elevational gradients in the grassland of Mt. Tianshan, China

  • Rui Li
  • , Yunhua Liu
  •  & Jiandong Sheng

• Article
  11 October 2021 | Open Access

  Insights into soil bacterial and physicochemical properties of annual ryegrass-maize rotation (ARMR) system in southern China

  • Yanli Xiong
  • , Xiaopeng Yang
  •  & Xiao Ma

• Article
  11 December 2020 | Open Access

  Proteomic profile of extracellular vesicles released by Lactiplantibacillus plantarum BGAN8 and their internalization by non-polarized HT29 cell line

  • Svetlana Sokovic Bajic
  • , Maria-Alexandra Cañas
  •  & Patricia Ruas-Madiedo

• Article
  04 December 2020 | Open Access

  The extracellular juncture domains in the intimin passenger adopt a constitutively extended conformation inducing restraints to its sphere of action

  • Julia Weikum
  • , Alina Kulakova
  •  & J. Preben Morth

• Article
  24 March 2020 | Open Access

  A live-cell super-resolution technique demonstrated by imaging germinosomes in wild-type bacterial spores

  • R. M. P. Breedijk
  • , J. Wen
  •  & S. Brul

• Article
  04 March 2020 | Open Access

  Structural features of the interaction of MapZ with FtsZ and membranes in Streptococcus pneumoniae

  • Tomas Hosek
  • , Catherine M. Bougault
  •  & Jean-Pierre Simorre

• Article
  20 February 2020 | Open Access

  Study on antibiotic susceptibility of Salmonella typhimurium L forms to the third and forth generation cephalosporins

  • Cuiping Yang
  • , Huihui Li
  •  & Dengyu Chen

• Article
  16 October 2019 | Open Access

  Structural and biochemical characterisation of a novel alginate lyase from Paenibacillus sp. str. FPU-7

  • Takafumi Itoh
  • , Emi Nakagawa
  •  & Hisashi Kimoto

• Article
  02 August 2019 | Open Access

  Essential ion binding residues for Na⁺ flow in stator complex of the Vibrio flagellar motor

  • Yasuhiro Onoue
  • , Masayo Iwaki
  •  & Michio Homma

• Article
  20 March 2019 | Open Access

  Structural determinants of inhibition of Porphyromonas gingivalis gingipain K by KYT-36, a potent, selective, and bioavailable peptidase inhibitor

  • Tibisay Guevara
  • , Arturo Rodríguez-Banqueri
  •  & F. Xavier Gomis-Rüth

• Article
  23 January 2019 | Open Access

  Illuminating the catalytic core of ectoine synthase through structural and biochemical analysis

  • Laura Czech
  • , Astrid Höppner
  •  & Erhard Bremer

• Article
  17 January 2019 | Open Access

  Crystal structure of the multidrug resistance regulator RamR complexed with bile acids

  • Suguru Yamasaki
  • , Ryosuke Nakashima
  •  & Kunihiko Nishino

• Article
  24 September 2018 | Open Access

  Crystal structures of multicopper oxidase CueO G304K mutant: structural basis of the increased laccase activity

  • Hanqian Wang
  • , Xiaoqing Liu
  •  & Yong Gong

• Article
  01 August 2018 | Open Access

  FliS/flagellin/FliW heterotrimer couples type III secretion and flagellin homeostasis

  • Florian Altegoer
  • , Sampriti Mukherjee
  •  & Gert Bange

• Article
  30 July 2018 | Open Access

  Intracellular membranes of bacterial endospores are reservoirs for spore core membrane expansion during spore germination

  • Michael Laue
  • , Hong-Mei Han
  •  & Peter Setlow

• Article
  11 January 2018 | Open Access

  Assembly of an atypical α-macroglobulin complex from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  • Samira Zouhir
  • , Mylène Robert-Genthon
  •  & Andréa Dessen

• Article
  27 November 2017 | Open Access

  Transient locking of the hook procures enhanced motility to flagellated bacteria

  • Ismaël Duchesne
  • , Tigran Galstian
  •  & Simon Rainville

• Article
  16 November 2017 | Open Access

  Structure of FlgK reveals the divergence of the bacterial Hook-Filament Junction of Campylobacter

  • Paula V. Bulieris
  • , Nausad H. Shaikh
  •  & Fadel A. Samatey

• Article
  27 October 2017 | Open Access

  Community structure of gut bacteria of Dendroctonus armandi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) larvae during overwintering stage

  • Juan Wang
  • , Hui Chen
  •  & Ming Tang

• Article
  09 October 2017 | Open Access

  Dissecting the mycobacterial cell envelope and defining the composition of the native mycomembrane

  • Laura Chiaradia
  • , Cyril Lefebvre
  •  & Mamadou Daffé

• Article
  12 September 2017 | Open Access

  5,7-Di-N-acetyl-8-epiacinetaminic acid: A new non-2-ulosonic acid found in the K73 capsule produced by an Acinetobacter baumannii isolate from Singapore

  • Johanna J. Kenyon
  • , Anna Notaro
  •  & Ruth M. Hall

• Article
  12 September 2017 | Open Access

  Structural and functional insights into the periplasmic detector domain of the GacS histidine kinase controlling biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  • Ahmad Ali-Ahmad
  • , Firas Fadel
  •  & Florence Vincent

• Article
  29 August 2017 | Open Access

  Microbial communities in peatlands along a chronosequence on the Sanjiang Plain, China

  • Xue Zhou
  • , Zhenqing Zhang
  •  & Chunjie Tian

• Article
  15 August 2017 | Open Access

  Localized iron accumulation precedes nucleation and growth of magnetite crystals in magnetotactic bacteria

  • Jacques Werckmann
  • , Jefferson Cypriano
  •  & Marcos Farina

• Article
  03 August 2017 | Open Access

  Structural Basis for the Mechanism of ATP-Dependent Acetone Carboxylation

  • Florence Mus
  • , Brian J. Eilers
  •  & John W. Peters

• Article
  20 July 2017 | Open Access

  Identification and structural characterization of LytU, a unique peptidoglycan endopeptidase from the lysostaphin family

  • Vytas Raulinaitis
  • , Helena Tossavainen
  •  & Perttu Permi

• Article
  30 June 2017 | Open Access

  The role of the FliD C-terminal domain in pentamer formation and interaction with FliT

  • Hee Jung Kim
  • , Woongjae Yoo
  •  & Hyung Ho Lee

• Article
  16 June 2017 | Open Access

  ZipA and FtsA* stabilize FtsZ-GDP miniring structures

  • Yaodong Chen
  • , Haiyan Huang
  •  & Harold P. Erickson

• Article
  12 May 2017 | Open Access

  Structural studies of the periplasmic portion of the diguanylate cyclase CdgH from Vibrio cholerae

  • Min Xu
  • , Yi-Zhi Wang
  •  & Wei Xie

• Article
  06 February 2017 | Open Access

  Microbial shifts in the porcine distal gut in response to diets supplemented with Enterococcus Faecalis as alternatives to antibiotics

  • Pinghua Li
  • , Qing Niu
  •  & Ruihua Huang

• Article
  06 January 2017 | Open Access

  Insights into the Mechanistic Basis of Plasmid-Mediated Colistin Resistance from Crystal Structures of the Catalytic Domain of MCR-1

  • Philip Hinchliffe
  • , Qiu E. Yang
  •  & James Spencer

• Article
  08 November 2016 | Open Access

  Bacterial community structure and function shift along a successional series of tidal flats in the Yellow River Delta

  • Xiaofei Lv
  • , Bin Ma
  •  & Xiaojing Chu

• Article
  13 October 2016 | Open Access

  Structural basis for ligand recognition by a Cache chemosensory domain that mediates carboxylate sensing in Pseudomonas syringae

  • Jodi L. Brewster
  • , James L. O. McKellar
  •  & Monica L. Gerth

• Article
  04 August 2016 | Open Access

  Structural insights into cardiolipin transfer from the Inner membrane to the outer membrane by PbgA in Gram-negative bacteria

  • Haohao Dong
  • , Zhengyu Zhang
  •  & Changjiang Dong

• Article
  08 July 2016 | Open Access

  Dcsbis (PA2771) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a highly active diguanylate cyclase with unique activity regulation

  • Ying Chen
  • , Shiheng Liu
  •  & Lichuan Gu

• Article
  07 June 2016 | Open Access

  Structural flexibility of the periplasmic protein, FlgA, regulates flagellar P-ring assembly in Salmonella enterica

  • Hideyuki Matsunami
  • , Young-Ho Yoon
  •  & Fadel A. Samatey

• Article
  22 April 2016 | Open Access

  VirB8-like protein TraH is crucial for DNA transfer in Enterococcus faecalis

  • Christian Fercher
  • , Ines Probst
  •  & Walter Keller

• Article
  15 April 2016 | Open Access

  Structural insights into the Escherichia coli lysine decarboxylases and molecular determinants of interaction with the AAA+ ATPase RavA

  • Eaazhisai Kandiah
  • , Diego Carriel
  •  & Irina Gutsche

• Article
  22 March 2016 | Open Access

  Low Energy Atomic Models Suggesting a Pilus Structure that could Account for Electrical Conductivity of Geobacter sulfurreducens Pili

  • Ke Xiao
  • , Nikhil S. Malvankar
  •  & Xiao Sun

• Article
  14 March 2016 | Open Access

  Structure of the fimbrial protein Mfa4 from Porphyromonas gingivalis in its precursor form: implications for a donor-strand complementation mechanism

  • Patrik Kloppsteck
  • , Michael Hall
  •  & Karina Persson

• Article
  10 March 2016 | Open Access

  Insight into determinants of substrate binding and transport in a multidrug efflux protein

  • Kamela O. Alegre
  • , Stephanie Paul
  •  & Christopher J. Law

• Article
  30 November 2015 | Open Access

  Structure of Mycobacterium thermoresistibile GlgE defines novel conformational states that contribute to the catalytic mechanism

  • Vitor Mendes
  • , Michal Blaszczyk
  •  & Tom L. Blundell

• Article
  01 October 2015 | Open Access

  Pre-amyloid oligomers of the proteotoxic RepA-WH1 prionoid assemble at the bacterial nucleoid

  • María Moreno-del Álamo
  • , Susana Moreno-Díaz de la Espina
  •  & Rafael Giraldo

• Article
  21 April 2015 | Open Access

  Dynamic Distribution of the Gut Microbiota and the Relationship with Apparent Crude Fiber Digestibility and Growth Stages in Pigs

  • Qing Niu
  • , Pinghua Li
  •  & Ruihua Huang

• Article
  22 January 2014 | Open Access

  Fecal microbiota imbalance in Mexican children with type 1 diabetes

  • María Esther Mejía-León
  • , Joseph F. Petrosino
  •  & Ana María Calderón de la Barca

• Article
  10 December 2012 | Open Access

  Structural properties of the tubular appendage spinae from marine bacterium Roseobacter sp. strain YSCB

  • A. Bernadac
  • , L.-F. Wu
  •  & T. Xiao