Akbar Espaillat

Anammox Planctomycetes have a peptidoglycan cell wall

Muriel C. F. van Teeseling, Rob Mesman, Erkin Kuru et al. · Nature Communications · 2015 · 253 citations · Full text

Biosynthesis of a broad-spectrum nicotianamine-like metallophore in <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>

Ghassan Ghssein, Catherine Brutesco, Laurent Ouerdane et al. · Science · 2016 · 216 citations · Full text

Biosynthesis, Biochemistry, Natural Sciences +9

Structural basis for the broad specificity of a new family of amino-acid racemases

Akbar Espaillat, César Carrasco‐López, N. Bernardo-García et al. · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography · 2013 · 68 citations · Full text

Structural Bioinformatics, Biomolecular Structure Prediction, Bacteriology +17

Chemometric Analysis of Bacterial Peptidoglycan Reveals Atypical Modifications That Empower the Cell Wall against Predatory Enzymes and Fly Innate Immunity

Akbar Espaillat, Oskar Forsmo, Khouzaima El Biari et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2016 · 65 citations · Full text

Chemometric Analysis, Biochemistry, Virulence Factor +14

Klebsiella phages representing a novel clade of viruses with an unknown DNA modification and biotechnologically interesting enzymes

Barbara Maciejewska, Bartosz Roszniowski, Akbar Espaillat et al. · Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology · 2016 · 64 citations · Full text

Unknown Dna Modification, Phylogenetics, Natural Sciences +12