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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

The mycomembrane proteins PorH and ProtX are inserted at polar growth zones and linked to the cell wall.

Elizabeth M Hart, Dieuwertje A de Bruin, Victoria M Marando, Marina Arnau Alemany, Eric D Snow, Bailey J Schultz, Erkin Kuru, Suzanne Walker, Andrea Vettiger, Thomas G Bernhardt

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. The mycomembrane proteins PorH and ProtX are inserted at polar growth zones and linked to the cell wall.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Elizabeth M Hart *Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0003-0444-6547
Dieuwertje A de Bruin *Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0009-8697-3498
Victoria M MarandoDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-3557-5838
Marina Arnau AlemanyDepartment of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0000-2869-1630
Eric D SnowDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-7464-8323
Bailey J SchultzDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Erkin KuruDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-2356-0858
Suzanne WalkerDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-0545-914X
Andrea VettigerDepartment of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1245-0987
Thomas G BernhardtDepartment of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0003-3566-7756

Funding

Project 3: Defining and defeating the mechanisms of outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteriaU19AI158028 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI WALKER, SUZANNE · 2022 to 2025
$10.1M
Resource for Biocomputing Visualization and InformaticsP41GM103311 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FERRIN, THOMAS E · 2012 to 2017
$8.2M
Discovery and characterization of new bacterial cell wall targets and inhibitors to treat resistant infectionsR01AI148752 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Daniel Kahne, Suzanne Walker · 2020 to 2026
$5.5M
Investigating the mycomembrane protein assembly pathwayK99AI190054 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Elizabeth Mary Hart · 2025 to 2026
$227k
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation (HHWF) N/AHHMI (HHMI) N/AHHS | NIH (NIH) R01-AI148752HHS | NIH (NIH) U19 AI158028Installation Credit (Universite de Lausanne) N/ANIAID NIH HHS K99 AI190054NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI148752NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI158028NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103311
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Mycobacteriales order of bacteria includes important pathogens such as

Indexed as

Bacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsCell WallCorynebacterium glutamicumPorinsCell MembraneMycolic AcidsPeptidoglycanBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsMycolic AcidsPeptidoglycanPorinscell envelopeMycobacterialesmycomembraneporinprotein transport

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PMID42821347
PMCPMC13643282

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