Why lipopolysaccharide outer membrane of gram-negative microbes is so pliable, extendable and pinchable as vesicles vide reference here?

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All gram negative microbes have a characteristic lipopolysaccharide-rich outer membrane covering. Is it biophysically better than the lipid-bilayer structure common to all other cell membranes?

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