ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections threaten all the advances in modern medicine after the industry nearly abandoned antibiotic development and no mechanism to suppress antibiotic resistance has been found. However, our results indicate that this mechanism does exist and is conserved in functional membrane microdomains (FMM) in all prokaryotes. We discovered bacterial FMM, akin to eukaryotic lipid rafts, and demonstrated their crucial role in preserving proteins correctly folded at no ATP cost. FMM are essential for pathogens survival during infections thus, FMM perturbation causes the bacterial proteome to collapse, particularly affecting heterologous proteins responsible for…
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