Carolina Basurto De Santiago

This paper investigates the role of SanA in maintaining envelope integrity in E. coli by linking its absence to increased lipid II availability and imbalanced septal peptidoglycan synthesis.

This study shows that bacterial peptidoglycan elongation can be reprogrammed from nonpolar to polar modes by altering MreB localization or directly targeting the Rod synthase to poles.

The paper shows that Gram-negative bacteria can divide their outer membranes through mechanical force, with variations in division mechanisms linked to PG division and OM-PG interactions.

This study identifies a SNARE-like mechanism in Myxococcus xanthus that mediates outer membrane exchange through TraA and TraB proteins, revealing parallels to eukaryotic SNAREs.