Study quantifies the size of holes antibacterials create in cell walls to kill bacteria
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 11:32
in Biology & Nature
Researchers recently created a biophysical model of the response of a Gram-positive bacterium to the formation of a hole in its cell wall, then used experimental measurements to validate the theory, which predicted that a hole in the bacteria cell wall larger than 15 to 24 nanometers in diameter would cause the cell to lyse, or burst.