Search Results - "Buttress, Jessica A"
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Low membrane fluidity triggers lipid phase separation and protein segregation in living bacteria
Published in The EMBO journal (01-03-2022)“…All living organisms adapt their membrane lipid composition in response to changes in their environment or diet. These conserved membrane‐adaptive processes…”
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A guide for membrane potential measurements in Gram-negative bacteria using voltage-sensitive dyes
Published in Microbiology (Society for General Microbiology) (01-09-2022)“…Transmembrane potential is one of the main bioenergetic parameters of bacterial cells, and is directly involved in energizing key cellular processes such as…”
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Disruption of the Cytoplasmic Membrane Structure and Barrier Function Underlies the Potent Antiseptic Activity of Octenidine in Gram-Positive Bacteria
Published in Applied and environmental microbiology (24-05-2022)“…The antimicrobial killing mechanism of octenidine (OCT), a well-known antiseptic is poorly understood. We recently reported its interaction with Gram-negative…”
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A hyperpromiscuous antitoxin protein domain for the neutralization of diverse toxin domains
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-02-2022)“…Toxin-antitoxin (TA) gene pairs are ubiquitous in microbial chromosomal genomes and plasmids as well as temperate bacteriophages. They act as regulatory…”
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The structural basis of hyperpromiscuity in a core combinatorial network of type II toxin-antitoxin and related phage defense systems
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-08-2023)“…Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are a large group of small genetic modules found in prokaryotes and their mobile genetic elements. Type II TAs are encoded as…”
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Mechanism of phage sensing and restriction by toxin-antitoxin-chaperone systems
Published in Cell host & microbe (10-07-2024)“…Toxin-antitoxins (TAs) are prokaryotic two-gene systems composed of a toxin neutralized by an antitoxin. Toxin-antitoxin-chaperone (TAC) systems additionally…”
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