Ian presented his poster entitled “Mycobacterial lipoglycan biosynthesis helps maintain cell envelope integrity specifically under biofilm growth conditions” at the virtual 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology.
Rahlwes KC, Osman SH, Morita YS. mSphere. 2020 Nov 4;5(6):e01039-20. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.01039-20. PMID: 33148829
In this study, Kathryn made an unexpected discovery that the mannosyltransferase MptA needs the periplasmic protein LmeA to be maintained under non-growing conditions. This maintenance is important for sustaining the level of lipomannan under the stress conditions. Great work Kathryn!
In today’s departmental colloquium, Malavika presented her research on the “Role of Polyprenol Biosynthesis in the maintenance of Mycobacterial Membrane Domain”.