In bacteria, morphology depends on the peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall, but scientists still do not understand how the wall interacts with other cellular components to determine cell shape. In a study ...

Bacillus subtilis cell diameter is determined by the opposing actions of two distinct cell wall synthetic systems. Nature Microbiology, 2019; DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0439-0; ...

A team from the Institute Pasteur has recently shown that the tuberculosis bacillus hides from the immune system in its host's fat cells. This formidable pathogen is protected against even the ...

PINCH HITTING: When a walled Bacillus subtilis cell divides, complicated cellular machinery segregates its contents and builds a new peptidoglycan wall across its center (1) before the bacterium ...

A European-Asian collaboration of scientists have identified ten virulence genes of the tubercle bacillus. The inactivation of these genes lessens the pathogenic effects of the bacillus. This ...

Immunologist Johan Van Weyenbergh (KU Leuven) and his Belgian-Brazilian colleagues have shown that a drug used to fight arthritis also stops the process that allows the tuberculosis bacillus to ...

Under normal circumstances, white blood cells defend our body against infections, but in this case, they were hijacked by the bacillus and became ideal host cells." From arthritis to tuberculosis?