The system that allows the sharing of genetic material between bacteria – and therefore the spread of antibiotic resistance – has been uncovered by a team of scientists at Birkbeck, University of ...
With antibiotic-resistant bacteria on the rise, scientists have been searching for ways to shut down the Type IV secretion system (T4SS), a protein complex on the outer envelope of bacterial cells ...
A detailed new model of a bacterial secretion system provides directions for developing precisely targeted antibiotics. Gastric cancer, Q fever, Legionnaires' disease, whooping cough -- though the ...