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Staying in Shape: the Impact of Cell Shape on Bacterial Survival in Diverse Environments by Yang, Desirée C, Blair, Kris M, Salama, Nina R

“…Bacteria display an abundance of cellular forms and can change shape during their life cycle. Many plausible models regarding the functional significance of…”
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ATP-binding cassette transporter-like complex governs cell-wall hydrolysis at the bacterial cytokinetic ring by Yang, Desirée C, Peters, Nick T, Parzych, Katherine R, Uehara, Tsuyoshi, Markovski, Monica, Bernhardt, Thomas G

“…ATP-binding cassette transporters are ubiquitous membrane protein complexes that move substrates across membranes. They do so using ATP-induced conformational…”
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A conformational switch controls cell wall-remodelling enzymes required for bacterial cell division by Yang, Desirée C., Tan, Kemin, Joachimiak, Andrzej, Bernhardt, Thomas G.

“…Summary Remodelling of the peptidoglycan (PG) exoskeleton is intimately tied to the growth and division of bacteria. Enzymes that hydrolyse PG are critical for…”
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Structure–function analysis of the LytM domain of EnvC, an activator of cell wall remodelling at the Escherichia coli division site by Peters, Nick T., Morlot, Cécile, Yang, Desirée C., Uehara, Tsuyoshi, Vernet, Thierry, Bernhardt, Thomas G.

“…Summary Proteins with LytM (Peptidase_M23) domains are broadly distributed in bacteria and have been implicated in a variety of important processes, including…”
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A Genome-Wide Helicobacter pylori Morphology Screen Uncovers a Membrane-Spanning Helical Cell Shape Complex by Yang, Desirée C, Blair, Kris M, Taylor, Jennifer A, Petersen, Timothy W, Sessler, Tate, Tull, Christina M, Leverich, Christina K, Collar, Amanda L, Wyckoff, Timna J, Biboy, Jacob, Vollmer, Waldemar, Salama, Nina R

“…Evident in its name, the gastric pathogen has a helical cell morphology which facilitates efficient colonization of the human stomach. An improved…”
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Directed molecular evolution by somatic hypermutation by Wang, Clifford L., Yang, Desirée C., Wabl, Matthias

“…After rearrangement of immunoglobulin gene segments, the immune system evolves the antibody repertoire by mutating the immunoglobulin variable region at a high…”
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Slow, stochastic transgene repression with properties of a timer by Wang, Clifford L, Yang, Desirée C, Wabl, Matthias

“…When gene expression varies unpredictably between genetically identical organisms, this is sometimes ascribed as stochastic. With the prevalence of retroviral…”
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Structure–function analysis of the LytM domain of EnvC , an activator of cell wall remodelling at the E scherichia coli division site by Peters, Nick T., Morlot, Cécile, Yang, Desirée C., Uehara, Tsuyoshi, Vernet, Thierry, Bernhardt, Thomas G.

“…Summary Proteins with LytM ( P eptidase_ M 23) domains are broadly distributed in bacteria and have been implicated in a variety of important processes,…”
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An ATP-binding cassette transporter-like complex governs cell-wall hydrolysis at the bacterial cytokinetic ring by Yang, Desirée C., Peters, Nick T., Parzych, Katherine R., Uehara, Tsuyoshi, Markovski, Monica, Bernhardt, Thomas G.

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