Enrique Rojas

This study shows wall teichoic acids prevent nanoscopic pores in the cell wall by inhibiting PBP1 and promoting Rod complex activity, maintaining rod shape in Bacillus subtilis.

The paper shows that peptidoglycan turnover in Bacillus subtilis enables active transport of proteins through the cell wall, revealing a bacterial mechanism for molecular movement.

The paper measures cell-envelope stiffness in E. coli mutants to identify key factors influencing outer membrane mechanics and reveals sign epistasis between core oligosaccharide and OmpA.

The paper discovers non-linear stress-softening in Bacillus subtilis cell walls that enables cell shape homeostasis through mechanical feedback.

The paper shows that the cell wall polymer, not active polymerization, is critical for membrane partitioning in Mycobacterium smegmatis.