L-form bacteria, cell walls and the origins of life

How did bacterial ancestors reproduce? Lessons from L-form cells and giant lipid vesicles

(2012) Yves Briers et al.   BIOESSAYS

Genes for the Major Structural Components of Thermotogales Species’ Togas Revealed by Proteomic and Evolutionary Analyses of OmpA and OmpB Homologs

(2012) Amanda K. Petrus et al.   PLoS One

Coupling of the fusion and budding of giant phospholipid vesicles containing macromolecules

(2012) H. Terasawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Crucial Role for Membrane Fluidity in Proliferation of Primitive Cells

(2012) Romain Mercier et al.   Cell Reports

Origin of diderm (Gram-negative) bacteria: antibiotic selection pressure rather than endosymbiosis likely led to the evolution of bacterial cells with two membranes

(2011) Radhey S. Gupta   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Planctomycetes and eukaryotes: A case of analogy not homology

(2011) James O. McInerney et al.   BIOESSAYS

Peptidoglycan Remodeling and Conversion of an Inner Membrane into an Outer Membrane during Sporulation

(2011) Elitza I. Tocheva et al.   CELL

Complete Budding and Asymmetric Division of Primitive Model Cells To Produce Daughter Vesicles with Different Interior and Membrane Compositions

(2011) Meghan Andes-Koback et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The archaeal cell envelope

(2011) Sonja-Verena Albers et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Serpentinite and the dawn of life

(2011) N. H. Sleep et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Expanding Roles for Diverse Physical Phenomena During the Origin of Life

(2010) Itay Budin et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

A guide to successful bioprospecting: informed by actinobacterial systematics

(2010) Michael Goodfellow et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The STRING database in 2011: functional interaction networks of proteins, globally integrated and scored

(2010) D. Szklarczyk et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Growth and shape transformations of giant phospholipid vesicles upon interaction with an aqueous oleic acid suspension

(2009) Primož Peterlin et al.   CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF LIPIDS

Vesicle Budding and the Origin of Cellular Life

(2009) Saša Svetina   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Pearling of Lipid Vesicles Induced by Nanoparticles

(2009) Yan Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Coupled Growth and Division of Model Protocell Membranes

(2009) Ting F. Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mapping the Tree of Life: Progress and Prospects

(2009) N. R. Pace   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Listeria monocytogenesl-forms respond to cell wall deficiency by modifying gene expression and the mode of division

(2009) Simone Dell'Era et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A phylogeny-driven genomic encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea

(2009) Dongying Wu et al.   NATURE

Evidence for an early prokaryotic endosymbiosis

(2009) James A. Lake   NATURE

Life without a wall or division machine in Bacillus subtilis

(2009) M. Leaver et al.   NATURE