Structural biology: Lipopolysaccharide rolls out the barrel.

Nature

Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, and at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada.

Published: July 2014

Two crystal structures of the LptD–LptE protein complex reveal how the cell-wall component lipopolysaccharide is delivered and inserted into the external leaflet of the bacterial outer membrane.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007118PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13508DOI Listing

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