Sajith A. Jayasinghe

The paper uses bioinformatics analysis to propose that SE_1780 from Staphylococcus epidermidis is a lipase of the Fph family with a specific catalytic triad.

The paper challenges the assumption that all gram-negative bacterial outer membrane proteins are β-barrels by identifying WzA as a helical barrel protein and suggesting other family members may also have helical transmembrane segments.