Bacterial structural biology

Latest research

1. Therapeutic potential of Shigella phage SSG23 against Shigella sonnei biofilms and in BALB/c mice

   • Payel Mondal
   • Sanjib Das
   • Hemanta Koley

   in npj Viruses

   Article Open access 16 October 2025

   

2. Structural insights into the secretin complex of a type IVb pilus system

   • Chenchen Pei
   • Hui Sun
   • Meng Yin

   in Nature Communications

   Article Open access 16 October 2025

   

3. Voices of NSMB

   in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

   Article 15 October 2025

4. Modulation of bacterial nanocellulose crystallinity through carbon source–dependent metabolic pathways

   • Amith Abraham
   • Saehee Lee
   • Byoung-In Sang

   in Cellulose

   Article Open access 15 October 2025

   

5. Structure of the central Staphylococcus aureus AAA+ protease MecA/ClpC/ClpP

   • Stavros Azinas
   • Karin Wallden
   • Marta Carroni

   in Communications Biology

   Article Open access 14 October 2025

   

6. Phenotypic Characterization of Null Mutants of ΔcbpA and ΔcbpB in S. enterica Serovar Typhimurium

   • Indu Pant
   • Shashidhar Ravindranath

   in Current Microbiology

   Article Open access 14 October 2025

   

7. Assessment of strength and self-healing properties of bacterial concrete using machine learning techniques and microstructural characterization

   • Anumol Sukumaran
   • V. Johnpaul
   • S. Senthil Kumar

   in Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation

   Article 13 October 2025

   

8. Structural phylogenetics unravels the evolutionary diversification of communication systems in gram-positive bacteria and their viruses

   • David Moi
   • Charles Bernard
   • Christophe Dessimoz

   in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

   Article Open access 10 October 2025

   

9. Complex structural variant visualization with SVTopo

   • Jonathan R. Belyeu
   • William J. Rowell
   • Michael A. Eberle

   in BMC Genomics

   Article Open access 09 October 2025

   

10. SMC modulates ParB engagement in segregation complexes in streptomyces

    • Katarzyna Pawlikiewicz
    • Agnieszka Strzałka
    • Dagmara Jakimowicz

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 09 October 2025

    

11. Characterization of sustainable bacterial cellulose from Indigenous Vietnamese biomass for potential textile applications

    • Donna Cleveland
    • Rajkishore Nayak
    • Tuan-Anh Nguyen

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 09 October 2025

    

12. Structural insights into Cir-mediated killing by the antimicrobial protein Microcin V

    • Stavros A. Maurakis
    • Angela C. O’Donnell
    • Susan K. Buchanan

    in Communications Biology

    Article Open access 09 October 2025

    

13. Improving conformational stability and bacterial membrane interactions of antimicrobial peptides with amphipathic helical structure

    • Ahmad Habibie
    • Rizki Amalia Putri
    • Teruna J. Siahaan

    in Medicinal Chemistry Research

    Article 07 October 2025

    

14. Structural and functional insights into Ubl domain-mediated regulation of SARS-CoV-2 PLpro

    • Rimanshee Arya
    • Janani Ganesh
    • Mukesh Kumar

    in Biology Direct

    Article Open access 03 October 2025

    

15. Structure of a distinct β-barrel assembly machinery complex in the Bacteroidota

    • Augustinas Silale
    • Mariusz Madej
    • Bert van den Berg

    in Nature Microbiology

    Article Open access 01 October 2025

    

16. A new paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota

    • Xiaolong Liu
    • Luis Orenday Tapia
    • Ben C. Berks

    in Nature

    Article Open access 01 October 2025

    

17. Elaborate machinery for inserting proteins into the outer membrane of bacteria

    in Nature

    Article 01 October 2025

    

18. Structural insights into chemoresistance mutants of BCL-2 and their targeting by stapled BAD BH3 helices

    • Thomas M. DeAngelo
    • Utsarga Adhikary
    • Loren D. Walensky

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 29 September 2025

    

19. A single residue in the yellow fever virus envelope protein modulates virion architecture and antigenicity

    • Summa Bibby
    • James Jung
    • Daniel Watterson

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 26 September 2025

    

20. Structure-sensitive transformer and multi-view graph contrastive learning enhanced prediction of drug-related microbes

    • Ping Xuan
    • Rui Wang
    • Tiangang Zhang

    in BMC Bioinformatics

    Article Open access 26 September 2025

    

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