In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

Conjugation is mediated by a large molecular machinery termed Type IV secretion system (T4SS), embedded within the donor cell wall. In addition, some bacteria utilise T4SS to inject effector proteins ...

The first full-length structures of two heat shock chaperone proteins in a complex reveal the key structural region ...

Researchers think a microbe that was engulfed by an algal cell 100 million years ago has since evolved into an integral part of the cell's machinery. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today - knowing a gene’s sequence does not automatically reveal what it does. Even in ...