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Disruptions in outer membrane-peptidoglycan interactions enhance bile salt resistance in O-antigen-producing E. coli.
mBio - 8 Oct 2025
Qin Jilong, Hong Yaoqin, Vollmer Waldemar, Morona Renato, Totsika Makrina
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Bile salts (BS) are antimicrobials that disrupt bacterial cell membranes and induce oxidative stress. The gut bacterium Escherichia coli is naturally resistant to BS, including the model strain K12 MG1655 that produces a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) without O-antigen (OAg) on the cell surface. Paradoxically, we have previously shown that restoring a wild-type like LPS with attached OAg (MG1655-S) sensitizes E. coli...
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