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Ryan A Valdez

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Open access Sep 2026

Independent tuning of outer membrane fluidity and mechanics in Gram-negative bacteria

It is shown that increasing PL levels in the outer leaflet or truncating LPS core oligosaccharides increases OM fluidity by disrupting LPS packing, and that reduced LPS abundance or disruption of divalent cation-mediated crosslinking primarily reduces OM stiffness with little effect on fluidity.

Jia-Wei Sun, Gvantsa Gutishvili, You He et al. · bioRxiv · 0 citations

Review Open access Aug 2026

LPS in Gram-negative bacterial growth and physiology: outside but fully integrated

Recent work is described detailing the essential contributions of LPS to bacterial physiology: particularly its role in cell envelope rigidity, its contributions to outer membrane capacity and fluidity, and the mechanisms integrating LPS synthesis into diverse aspects of cell envelope biogenesis during growth and divis...

Ryan A. Valdez, P. Levin · Microbiology and Molecular B... · 1 citation