... lies in the effectiveness of their outer membrane (OM) in defending the cell from antibacterial compounds. Critical to its function, the highly asymmetric lipid distribution between the inner and outer bilayer leaflets of the OM, adds an extra level of complexity to the study of this crucial defence...

...Karen S. Jakes Of the steps involved in the killing of Escherichia coli by colicins, binding to a specific outer-membrane receptor was the best understood and earliest characterized. Receptor binding was believed to be an indispensable step in colicin intoxication, coming before the less well...

... starvation conditions can produce and release microcins that can kill microcin-sensitive cells and therefore have more nutrients for survival. The outer-membrane protein OmpF and FhuA TonB-dependent pathways facilitate the internalization of the MccB17 and MccJ25 microcins into the target cell respectively...

...D.J. Näther; R. Rachel Ignicoccus is the only archaeal genus known today whose cells possess an outer membrane. According to freeze-etch experiments, it is composed of two leaflets which become separated in the fracture process. Here we show by transmission electron microscopy that the two leaflets...

... for β-oxidation in the heart. 1 To whom correspondence should be addressed (e-mail s.eaton@ich.ucl.ac.uk ) 11 12 2000 © 2001 Biochemical Society 2001 flux control heart malonyl-CoA outer membrane CPT I outer-membrane carnitine palmitoyl transferase Fatty Acid...