Distinct functions of polysaccharide deacetylases in cell shape, neutral polysaccharide synthesis and virulence ofBacillus anthracis

The Lysozyme-Induced Peptidoglycan N-Acetylglucosamine Deacetylase PgdA (EF1843) Is Required for Enterococcus faecalis Virulence

(2012) A. Benachour et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Identification and Characterization of a Novel Polysaccharide Deacetylase C (PdaC) from Bacillus subtilis

(2012) Kaori Kobayashi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Characterization of SfPgdA, a Shigella flexneri peptidoglycan deacetylase required for bacterial persistence within polymorphonuclear neutrophils

(2012) Abdelmoughit Kaoukab-Raji et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Escherichia colilow-molecular-weight penicillin-binding proteins help orient septal FtsZ, and their absence leads to asymmetric cell division and branching

(2012) Lakshmi-Prasad Potluri et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Secondary cell wall polysaccharides from Bacillus cereus strains G9241, 03BB87 and 03BB102 causing fatal pneumonia share similar glycosyl structures with the polysaccharides from Bacillus anthracis

(2011) L Scott Forsberg et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

Coupled, Circumferential Motions of the Cell Wall Synthesis Machinery and MreB Filaments in B. subtilis

(2011) E. C. Garner et al.   SCIENCE

Modifications to the Peptidoglycan Backbone Help Bacteria To Establish Infection

(2010) Kimberly M. Davis et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

O-Acetylation of Peptidoglycan Is Required for Proper Cell Separation and S-layer Anchoring inBacillus anthracis

(2010) Maria-Halima Laaberki et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Bacillus anthracis Surface-Layer Proteins Assemble by Binding to the Secondary Cell Wall Polysaccharide in a Manner that Requires csaB and tagO

(2010) Justin Kern et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Secondary cell wall polysaccharides of Bacillus anthracis are antigens that contain specific epitopes which cross-react with three pathogenic Bacillus cereus strains that caused severe disease, and other epitopes common to all the Bacillus cereus strains tested

(2009) C. Leoff et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

The novel polysaccharide deacetylase homologue Pdi contributes to virulence of the aquatic pathogen Streptococcus iniae

(2009) C. J. E. Milani et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The surface of Bacillus anthracis

(2009) Agnès Fouet   MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF MEDICINE

The Cell Wall Regulator  I Specifically Suppresses the Lethal Phenotype of mbl Mutants in Bacillus subtilis

(2008) K. Schirner et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Streptococcus mutans SMU.623c Codes for a Functional, Metal-Dependent Polysaccharide Deacetylase That Modulates Interactions with Salivary Agglutinin

(2008) D. M. Deng et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Structural Elucidation of the Nonclassical Secondary Cell Wall Polysaccharide fromBacillus cereusATCC 10987

(2008) Christine Leoff et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Significant contribution of thepgdAgene to the virulence ofStreptococcus suis

(2008) Nahuel Fittipaldi et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY