Colistin displaces divalent cations from the phosphate groups of membrane lipids, which leads to disruption of the outer cell membrane, leakage of intracellular contents and bacterial death.

A gram-positive bacillus doesn't have an outer cell wall beyond the peptidoglycan membrane. This makes it more absorbent. Its peptidoglycan layer is much thicker than the peptidoglycan layer on ...

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Tying the two studies together is the fact that piperacillin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that interferes with the synthesis of peptidoglycan, an essential part of the bacterial cell wall.

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In recent years, bacterial cells have been shown to be ... function in the positioning of proteins that are involved in cell-wall biosynthesis. Plasmid segregation is achieved by three-component ...

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