Gut bacteria-produced exopolysaccharides (EPS) help regulate metabolism by modulating gut microbiota, promoting SCFA ...

For example, bacteria have a rigid cell wall, whereas human cells are surrounded ... or MEP pathway for short. The MEP pathway is an essential part of the energy metabolism of several bacteria ...

Thousands of metabolic pathways exist and most involve multiple steps – some can be hundreds of steps long! All metabolic pathways together form a complex network that is necessary to maintain life.

The new molecules target a metabolic pathway that only occurs in bacterial cells, thus sparing human cells. The team published its results in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

All metabolic pathways have to be regulated and controlled to stop the build-up of an end product that isn’t needed. The cell can control a metabolic pathway by the presence or absence of a ...

Mounting an immune response is a metabolically costly endeavour and cannot operate well under conditions of energy deficit. Energy surplus (for example, in individuals that are obese or suffer ...

Glycolysis is a central metabolic pathway by which cells obtain energy from sugar. Cancer cells in particular have long been ...

Glycolysis is an important sugar degradation pathway that cancer cells in particular depend on. Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now shown that liver cancer cells in mice ...