An Affair to Remember: How an Endosymbiont Partners with Its Host to Build a Cell Envelope.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Studying endosymbionts gives us insight into early cellular mechanisms that led to the emergence of eukaryotic organelles. In this issue of Cell, Bublitz et al. (2019) report on how a nested bacterial endosymbiont of mealybugs builds its cell wall peptidoglycan through a biosynthetic pathway that is dependent on transported host enzymes.
Medical subject headings
- Peptidoglycan
- Symbiosis