Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a crucial constituent of the outer membrane of most Gram-
negative bacteria, playing a fundamental role in the protection of bacteria from …

For many decades, Escherichia coli was the main model organism for the study of bacterial
membrane lipids. The results obtained served as a blueprint for membrane lipid …

Lipid research represents a frontier for microbiology, as showcased by hopanoid lipids.
Hopanoids, which resemble sterols and are found in the membranes of diverse bacteria …

The functionality of cellular membranes relies on the molecular order imparted by lipids. In
eukaryotes, sterols such as cholesterol modulate membrane order, yet they are not typically …

Determining the chemical composition of biological materials is paramount to the study of
natural phenomena. Here, we describe the composition of model gram-negative outer …

Bacteria and fungi can undergo symbiotic or pathogenic interactions with plants. Membrane
lipids and lipid-derived molecules from the plant or the microbial organism play important …

Covering: up to 2018 Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been known for well over three
decades as crucial mediators of the innate immune response in animals and plants, where …

Nutritional symbiotic interactions require the housing of large numbers of microbial
symbionts, which produce essential compounds for the growth of the host. In the legume …

Terminal bacteroid differentiation (TBD) is a remarkable case of bacterial cell differentiation
that occurs after rhizobia are released intracellularly within plant cells of symbiotic legume …

Akkermansia muciniphila is a prominent member of the gut microbiota and the organism
gets exposed to bile acids within this niche. Several gut bacteria have bile response genes …