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Researchers discovered the critical role of OpgH protein in maintaining bacterial shape and its potential as an antibiotic target in disease-causing bacteria.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine discovered the critical role of OpgH protein in maintaining bacterial shape, especially in freshwater lake and soil bacteria.
The loss of OpgH compromises the cell envelope, leading to cell death.
OpgH generates osmoregulated periplasmic glucans (OPGs), sugar molecules filling the protective cell envelope's spaces.
Understanding these sugar molecules in gram-negative bacteria could aid in developing new drugs targeting disease-causing bacteria with OPGs, such as Brucella, Pseudomonas, Salmonella, and E. coli.
The proteins that create or modify these sugar molecules are essential to bacterial survival, potentially making them suitable targets for antibiotics.
Los investigadores descubrieron el papel fundamental de la proteína OpgH en el mantenimiento de la forma bacteriana y su potencial como objetivo antibiótico en las bacterias causantes de enfermedades.