Most bacteria release membrane vesicles (MVs) that contain specific cargo molecules and
have diverse functions, including the transport of virulence factors, DNA transfer, interception …

Bacteriophage particles are the most abundant biological entities on our planet, infecting
specific bacterial hosts in every known environment and being major drivers of bacterial …

The first steps in phage lysis involve a temporally controlled permeabilization of the
cytoplasmic membrane followed by enzymatic degradation of the peptidoglycan. For …

The lysis of bacterial hosts by double-strand DNA bacteriophages, once thought to reflect
merely the accumulation of sufficient lysozyme activity during the infection cycle, has been …

Over the past few decades, we have witnessed a surge around the world in the emergence
of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This global health threat arose mainly due to the overuse and …

Monoderm bacteria possess a cell envelope made of a cytoplasmic membrane and a cell
wall, whereas diderm bacteria have and extra lipid layer, the outer membrane, covering the …

Nowadays the most important problem in the treatment of bacterial infections is the
appearance of MDR (multidrug-resistant), XDR (extensively drug-resistant) and PDR (pan …

Bacteriophage therapy (the application of phages to treat bacterial infections) has a tradition
dating back almost a century, but interest in phage therapy slowed down in the West when …

Currently, the bacterial resistance, especially to most commonly used antibiotics has proved
to be a severe therapeutic problem. Nosocomial and community-acquired infections are …

Programmed cell death is a process known to have a crucial role in many aspects of
eukaryotes physiology and is clearly essential to their life. As a consequence, the underlying …