Researchers have discovered a new group of bacterial toxins that can kill harmful bacteria and fungi, opening the door to potential new treatments for infections. These toxins, found in over 100,000 ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing concern. According to the CDC, more than 2.8 million antimicrobial-resistant infections occur each year. Now, a team of researchers has discovered a new group of ...

Researchers have discovered a new group of bacterial toxins that can kill harmful bacteria and fungi, opening the door to potential new treatments for infections. These toxins, found in over 100,000 ...

Gram-negative bacteria deploy a range of protein toxins as mediators of inter-bacterial competition and pathogenicity. Among these, colicins comprise a class of ribosomally synthesised bacteriocins ...

A harmful and often deadly substance made by bacteria, a bacterial toxin manipulates host cell functions and disrupts vital cell processes in a living organism. Bacterial toxins hit host organisms ...

While we may think of some bacteria as friendly and others as pathogenic, the situation can become very complex. Not only can particular strains of the same microbial species be very different - like ...

Marcos de Moraes, center, with his lab team at Rice University. When bacteria battle for survival, they do so with microscopic precision. Some produce toxins that target rival microbes, shaping not ...

Life-forms with no brain are capable of some astounding things. It might sound like sci-fi nightmare fuel, but some bacteria can wage kamikaze chemical warfare. Pathogenic bacteria make us sick by ...

For very long, researchers have hypothesized that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxins shed from the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, e.g., gut-resident Bacteroides fragilis and Escherichia ...