Unraveling the bacterial exoskeleton: functional and structural characterisation of the B. anthracis S-layer Vrije Universiteit Brussel
surface of many Bacteria and nearly all Archaea. They are amongst
the most abundant biopolymers on Earth, yet they have largely
remained a biological enigma.
Recently, developing and applying Slayer disrupting nanobodies (NbsDS) as new bio-tools to control Slayer polymerization, I provided the first evidence for an exoskeletal
role of ...