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How drug-resistant bacteria build defences

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Researchers at the University of Leeds led by Professors Sheena Radford and Neil Ranson have uncovered new information about the operation of a protein complex called BAM – the beta-barrel assembly machinery – which helps insert other bacterial proteins into the bacteria’s outermost protective layer.

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Read Lateral opening in the intact β-barrel assembly machinery captured by cryo-EM in Nature