The move from a free-living environment to a long-term residence inside a host eukaryotic
cell has profound effects on bacterial function. While endosymbioses are found in many …

The major archaeal membrane glycerolipids are distinguished from those of bacteria and
eukaryotes by the contrasting stereochemistry of their glycerol backbones, and by the use of …

The interactions between bacteria and bacteriophage have important roles in the global
ecosystem; in turn changes in environmental parameters affect the interactions between …

The interactions between a virus and its host vary in space and time and are affected by the
presence of molecules that alter the physiology of either the host or the virus. Determining …

Microbial chemoautotroph-heterotroph interactions may play a pivotal role in the cycling of
carbon in the deep ocean, reminiscent of phytoplankton-heterotroph associations in surface …

The construction from scratch of synthetic cells by assembling molecular building blocks is
unquestionably an ambitious goal from a scientific and technological point of view. To …

Many antibiotics that are used in healthcare, farming, and aquaculture end up in
environments with different spatial structures that might promote heterogeneity in the …

Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) with a semi-permeable nature are prerequisites for
constructing synthetic cells. Here we engineer semi-permeable GUVs by the inclusion of …

Many factors contribute to bacterial membrane stabilization, including steric effects between
lipids, membrane spontaneous curvature, and the difference in the number of neighboring …

Early in the evolution of life a proto-metabolic network was encapsulated within a membrane
compartment. The permeability characteristics of the membrane determined several key …