For at least two hundred years, Neisseria meningitidis (the meningococcus), the cause of
epidemic meningitis and sepsis, has inflicted rapid death, disability and fear on disparate …

A wide variety of antibiotics are targeted to the bacterial membrane due to its unique
arrangement and composition relative to the host mammalian membranes. By modification …

Rickettsia peacockii, also known as the East Side Agent, is a non-pathogenic obligate
intracellular bacterium found as an endosymbiont in Dermacentor andersoni ticks in the …

Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are an integral part of the outer membrane of Gram-negative
bacteria and play essential structural and functional roles in maintaining membrane integrity …

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a dominant component of the Gram-negative bacterial outer
membrane, is a strong activator of the innate immune system, and thereby an important …

This review is the fifth update of the original review, published in 1999, on the application of
MALDI mass spectrometry to the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates and brings …

Translation elongation factor P (EF-P), a ubiquitous protein over the entire range of bacterial
species, rescues ribosomal stalling at consecutive prolines in proteins. In Escherichia coli …

Loss of phosphoethanolamine (PEA) from the lipid A of gonococcal strain FA19 results in
increased sensitivity to killing by the classical pathway of complement. Here we demonstrate …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic Gram-negative pathogen that causes severe
nosocomial infections in susceptible individuals due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant …

Abstract Background The Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) chromosome shows a high
abundance of simple sequence DNA repeats (SSRs) that undergo stochastic, reversible …