#ENVC
Delighted that our FtsEX-EnvC paper is now live at mBio!

FtsEX-EnvC is a bacterial Type VII ABC transporter that activates key periplasmic enzymes during cell division.

We found mutations that disrupt FtsEX-EnvC activity and a disulfide that leaves it permanently active.

doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
New preprint!

FtsEX-EnvC is a Type VII ABC transporter that activates the periplasmic enzymes needed to break the peptidoglycan layer during cell division.

We tested the importance of structural features underpinning activation and the auto-inhibition mechanism that keeps it all in check.
Probing the mechanism of peptidoglycan amidase activation by FtsEX-EnvC
The FtsEX-EnvC-AmiA/B system is a key component of the E. coli cell division machinery that directs breakage of the peptidoglycan layer during separation of daughter cells. Structural and mechanistic ...
www.biorxiv.org
April 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hold this song though www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENVC...
Red Velvet Cake
YouTube video by Cxldr3
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August 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Eleger tal melro p/ PAR resultou da conivência de deputados e jornalistas q sabiam e calaram. Grosseiro, sobretudo desde entrega dos públicos ENVC a privados Martifer/MotaEngil/BES+ capangas…1 esquema de “alta corrupção”, como foi denunciado à AR pelo liquidador da Empordef. Com PGR a assobiar p/ar.
May 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Cheirava a fraude... e parece que será fraude.

Curioso que o negócio feito com contornos esquisitos entre o Estado, através da ENVC, e Mário Ferreira aconteceu em 2014. Era Ministro da Defesa Nacional... Aguiar Branco, do #PSD.
Ministério Público deduziu acusação. No centro do inquérito está um esquema de planeamento fiscal relacionado com a venda do navio português a noruegueses através de uma empresa sediada em Malta.
Empresário Mário Ferreira acusado de fraude fiscal no caso do navio Atlântida
Ministério Público deduziu acusação. No centro do inquérito está um esquema de planeamento fiscal relacionado com a venda do navio português a noruegueses através de uma empresa sediada em Malta.
www.publico.pt
April 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Eu também lá estava, com Mário Soares e Maria Barroso. Mas o PS ignorou… e nunca deixou de respaldar os “artistas” q passaram a privados, a patacos, os públicos #ENVC - q, bem geridos, tão cruciais poderiam hoje ser p/ #Defesa e Segurança da #UE.
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December 7, 2024 at 1:14 PM
cross·posting from 𝕏 > bacterial cell divisionists take note 👇

Structural insights into the FtsEX-EnvC complex regulation on septal PG hydrolysis in V. cholerae
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#CryoEM #ABCtransporter #MembraneProteins #MicroSky

thx @Bramkamplab for the shoutout🙏
October 9, 2023 at 10:06 PM
O Almirante afundou-se com o apoio de Sócrates (q mais faz valer Seguro). Mas não se importa nada de ir à bolina do duvidoso patrão da CNN-P, arguido por fraude fiscal e branqueamento na compra/venda do navio Atlantida, q hoje reina nos públicos ENVC alienados a patacos pelo MDN Aguiar Branco…
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
-Found a kitten for my lovely bf @twdetrick.bsky.social after 3 months of looking during my farm job.
-Completed an agronomy internship
-Got hired in a lab
-Started my 2nd year of my ENVC degree
-Did a big illustration commission
-Moved into a new place with my bro
-Started gouache painting!
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how big or small
Reading & writing has kept me alive this year.

Somehow, it’s been my most productive year as an author.

Here’s a guide to what I’ve published in 2025, in case you’ve lost track.

Individual links below but it’s all on itch: danifinn.itch.io

And elsewhere: books2read.com/ap/nAApPp/Da...

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December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Portugal vai comprar fragatas que podia estar a fabricar, nao fosse o governo de Passos/Portas, com Aguiar Branco como MDN, ter passado a patacos os #ENVC a amigalhaços privados. Vender-pátrias é isto.. 🤢🥶🤢🥶🤢🥶🤢🤦🏽‍♀️
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Portugal vai comprar três fragatas italianas de 3,9 mil milhões para reforçar a Marinha - Defesa - Jornal de Negócios
O primeiro-ministro anunciou esta segunda-feira que Portugal comprou três fragatas de nova geração de construção italiana à Fincantieri, num investimento de 3,9 mil milhões de euros.
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July 20, 2026 at 11:55 PM
O ingénuo, inodoro e apartidário submarinista foi ao beija-mão de quem o propulsiona: o “tubarão do Douro”, do navio Atlântida, da privatização dos #ENVC para a #Martifer/#WestSea, da #CNN-P, etc…também arguido por fraude fiscal qualificada e branqueamento de capitais.
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Gouveia e Melo confirma que é apoiado por Mário Ferreira e que este é seu “amigo”
Candidato às presidenciais disse que fez um “pequeno intervalo” na campanha para ir ao almoço de aniversário de Mário Ferreira.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Ainda vamos ver o mais q o MP tem resguardado s/ negócios do publicitado Primeiro Amigo, DLM?
Por exemplo,
.sobre aviões da #TAP e não só,
.o banco na #GuineBissau e o respaldo a Sissoco
. com Isabel dos Santos
. com Mário Ferreira - dos ENVC/Martifer à CNN…
www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/amp...
Escutas da 'Operação Influencer' mostram que Costa mentiu sobre melhor amigo - Portugal - Correio da Manhã
Antigo primeiro-ministro havia garantido que Diogo Lacerda Machado nunca tinha conversado consigo sobre os negócios do lítio e do hidrogénio.
www.cmjornal.pt
April 28, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Probing the mechanism of peptidoglycan amidase activation by FtsEX-EnvC https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646785v1
April 3, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Original Ideas Podcast EP7 | Archaeology: What can the past tell us about the future? www.youtube.com/watch?v=envc...
Original Ideas Podcast EP7 | Archaeology: What can the past tell us about the future?
YouTube video by University of Liverpool
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February 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A paper using RRID:SCR_015872 was just published in Structure see "Structural insights into the FtsEX-EnvC complex regulation on septal peptidoglycan hydrolysis in Vibrio cholerae". Thank you for making your methods matter! #STMpublishing #accelerateopenscience
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April 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Plays of the day from the Pacific League games www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnvC... #npb
【勝っても】本日のナイスプレー【負けても】(2025年4月25日)
YouTube video by (パーソル パ・リーグTV公式)PacificLeagueTV
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April 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#VersionesBizarras "No Love Lost" de Joy Division (en "An Ideal for Living", EP de Joy Division, 1978), por LCD Soundsystem (en "This Is Happening", 2010). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENVC...
LCD Soundsystem ~ No Love Lost (Live from Re:SET Chicago)
YouTube video by Abataxi Music
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February 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Authors used pET-TBZ from @addgene.bsky.social in their study. Including #RRIDs will make this less ambiguous.

SciScore made a table with this resource, see “Automated Services” module (download as csv, xml or #jats) #methodsmatter #reproducibility
Probing the mechanism of peptidoglycan amidase activation by FtsEX-EnvC
www.biorxiv.org
April 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
É q eu nem acho q isso seja necessário. Compras em conjunto pela UE, preços mais competitivos, estímulo da indústria europeia, criação de novas fábricas (até em Portugal q o mais parecido q temos com isso são as OGMA e os antigos ENVC) mais empregos, mais impostos colectados por via disso, etc, etc
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Structural characterization of the YbbAP-TesA ABC transporter identifies it as a lipid hydrolase complex that extracts hydrophobic compounds from the bacterial inner membrane @PLOSBiology.org
Structural characterization of the YbbAP-TesA ABC transporter identifies it as a lipid hydrolase complex that extracts hydrophobic compounds from the bacterial inner membrane
by Martin B. L. McAndrew, Jonathan Cook, Amy Gill, Kavya Sahoo, Clare Thomas, Phillip J. Stansfeld, Allister Crow Type VII ABC transporters are ATP-powered membrane protein complexes that drive key biological processes in the bacterial cell envelope. In Escherichia coli, three of the four Type VII ABC systems have been extensively characterized, including: the FtsEX-EnvC cell division complex, the LolCDE-LolA lipoprotein trafficking machinery, and the MacAB-TolC efflux pump. Here we describe a fourth E. coli Type VII ABC system, YbbAP-TesA, which combines a Type VII ABC transporter with a multifunctional hydrolytic enzyme. Structures of the complete YbbAP-TesA complex, and of YbbAP with and without bound ATP analogues, capture implied long-range transmembrane conformational changes that are the hallmark of this ABC superfamily’s mechanotransmission mechanism. We further show that YbbAP-TesA can hydrolyze a variety of ester and thioester substrates and experimentally confirm a constellation of active site residues in TesA. Our data suggests YbbAP has a role in extracting hydrophobic molecules from the inner membrane and presenting these to TesA for hydrolysis. The work extends collective knowledge of the remarkable diversity of the ABC superfamily and establishes a new function for Type VII ABC transporters in bacterial cells.
dlvr.it
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I am a cultural anthropologist. What does that mean?
Y’all asked; I answered! 🤗🤓

👇

youtube.com/watch?v=EnvC...
Q&A With HaLingoGringo—I am a Cultural Anthropologist
YouTube video by HaLingoGringo
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March 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Structural insights into the FtsEX-EnvC complex regulation on septal peptidoglycan hydrolysis in Vibrio cholerae. Cell . Check it in the UniTmp database: https://pdbtm.unitmp.org/entry/8tzj
www.cell.com
March 14, 2024 at 3:29 PM
and while we're talking about Joy Division cover versions, one of my faves LCD Soundsystem "No Love Lost"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENVC...

#joydivision #LCDSoundSystem
LCD Soundsystem ~ No Love Lost (Live from Re:SET Chicago)
YouTube video by Abataxi Music
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Structural characterization of the YbbAP-TesA ABC transporter identifies it as a lipid hydrolase complex that extracts hydrophobic compounds from the bacterial inner membrane @PLOSBiology.org
Structural characterization of the YbbAP-TesA ABC transporter identifies it as a lipid hydrolase complex that extracts hydrophobic compounds from the bacterial inner membrane
by Martin B. L. McAndrew, Jonathan Cook, Amy Gill, Kavya Sahoo, Clare Thomas, Phillip J. Stansfeld, Allister Crow Type VII ABC transporters are ATP-powered membrane protein complexes that drive key biological processes in the bacterial cell envelope. In Escherichia coli, three of the four Type VII ABC systems have been extensively characterized, including: the FtsEX-EnvC cell division complex, the LolCDE-LolA lipoprotein trafficking machinery, and the MacAB-TolC efflux pump. Here we describe a fourth E. coli Type VII ABC system, YbbAP-TesA, which combines a Type VII ABC transporter with a multifunctional hydrolytic enzyme. Structures of the complete YbbAP-TesA complex, and of YbbAP with and without bound ATP analogues, capture implied long-range transmembrane conformational changes that are the hallmark of this ABC superfamily’s mechanotransmission mechanism. We further show that YbbAP-TesA can hydrolyze a variety of ester and thioester substrates and experimentally confirm a constellation of active site residues in TesA. Our data suggests YbbAP has a role in extracting hydrophobic molecules from the inner membrane and presenting these to TesA for hydrolysis. The work extends collective knowledge of the remarkable diversity of the ABC superfamily and establishes a new function for Type VII ABC transporters in bacterial cells.
dlvr.it
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM