Peptidoglycan at its peaks: how chromatographic analyses can reveal bacterial cell wall structure and assembly

d-Amino Acid Chemical Reporters Reveal Peptidoglycan Dynamics of an Intracellular Pathogen

(2012) M. Sloan Siegrist et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

In Situ Probing of Newly Synthesized Peptidoglycan in Live Bacteria with FluorescentD-Amino Acids

(2012) Erkin Kuru et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Neisseria gonorrhoeaeVirulence Factor NG1686 Is a Bifunctional M23B Family Metallopeptidase That Influences Resistance to Hydrogen Peroxide and Colony Morphology

(2012) Elizabeth A. Stohl et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Peptidoglycan Plasticity in Bacteria: Stress-Induced Peptidoglycan Editing by Noncanonical D-Amino Acids

(2012) Pilar Horcajo et al.   Microbial Drug Resistance

Three redundant murein endopeptidases catalyse an essential cleavage step in peptidoglycan synthesis ofEscherichia coliK12

(2012) Santosh Kumar Singh et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The Nonantibiotic Small Molecule Cyslabdan Enhances the Potency of β-Lactams against MRSA by Inhibiting Pentaglycine Interpeptide Bridge Synthesis

(2012) Nobuhiro Koyama et al.   PLoS One

Helical insertion of peptidoglycan produces chiral ordering of the bacterial cell wall

(2012) S. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellular solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

(2012) M. Renault et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polar growth in the Alphaproteobacterial order Rhizobiales

(2012) P. J. B. Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

3D-SIM Super Resolution Microscopy Reveals a Bead-Like Arrangement for FtsZ and the Division Machinery: Implications for Triggering Cytokinesis

(2012) Michael P. Strauss et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Identification of Genetic Determinants and Enzymes Involved with the Amidation of Glutamic Acid Residues in the Peptidoglycan of Staphylococcus aureus

(2012) Teresa A. Figueiredo et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Multiple Peptidoglycan Modification Networks Modulate Helicobacter pylori's Cell Shape, Motility, and Colonization Potential

(2012) Laura K. Sycuro et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A comparison of the endotoxin biosynthesis and protein oxidation pathways in the biogenesis of the outer membrane of Escherichia coli and Neisseria meningitidis

(2012) Susannah Piek et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Isolation and analysis of cell wall components from Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2011) Nhat Khai Bui et al.   ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Self-Resistance and Cell Wall Composition in the Glycopeptide Producer Amycolatopsis balhimycina

(2011) Till F. Schäberle et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

MALDI-TOF MS in microbiological diagnostics—identification of microorganisms and beyond (mini review)

(2011) Andreas Wieser et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Mechanical Control of Bacterial Cell Shape

(2011) Hongyuan Jiang et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Protein Diffusion in the Periplasm of E. coli under Osmotic Stress

(2011) Kem A. Sochacki et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Distinct pathways for modification of the bacterial cell wall by non-canonicalD-amino acids

(2011) Felipe Cava et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Osmotically Controlled Synthesis of the Compatible Solute Proline Is Critical for Cellular Defense of Bacillus subtilis against High Osmolarity

(2011) J. Brill et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Intracellular recognition of pathogens and autophagy as an innate immune host defence

(2011) T. Yano et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY

Clostridium difficileHas an Original Peptidoglycan Structure with a High Level ofN-Acetylglucosamine Deacetylation and Mainly 3-3 Cross-links

(2011) Johann Peltier et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Super-resolution microscopy reveals cell wall dynamics and peptidoglycan architecture in ovococcal bacteria

(2011) Richard Wheeler et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanisms for maintaining cell shape in rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria

(2011) Leon Furchtgott et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

High-throughput, subpixel precision analysis of bacterial morphogenesis and intracellular spatio-temporal dynamics

(2011) Oleksii Sliusarenko et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Type VI secretion delivers bacteriolytic effectors to target cells

(2011) Alistair B. Russell et al.   NATURE

The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly

(2011) S. van Teeffelen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lipoprotein Cofactors Located in the Outer Membrane Activate Bacterial Cell Wall Polymerases

(2010) Catherine Paradis-Bleau et al.   CELL

Regulation of Peptidoglycan Synthesis by Outer-Membrane Proteins

(2010) Athanasios Typas et al.   CELL

Emerging knowledge of regulatory roles of d-amino acids in bacteria

(2010) Felipe Cava et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

The Peptidoglycan of Mycobacterium abscessus Is Predominantly Cross-Linked by L,D-Transpeptidases

(2010) M. Lavollay et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

DipM links peptidoglycan remodelling to outer membrane organization in Caulobacter

(2010) Erin D. Goley et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Teichoic acids are temporal and spatial regulators of peptidoglycan cross-linking in Staphylococcus aureus

(2010) M. L. Atilano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

D-Amino Acids Trigger Biofilm Disassembly

(2010) I. Kolodkin-Gal et al.   SCIENCE

Architecture of peptidoglycan: more data and more models

(2010) Waldemar Vollmer et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Peptidoglycan architecture can specify division planes in Staphylococcus aureus

(2010) Robert D. Turner et al.   Nature Communications

Beta-lactam antibiotics: from antibiosis to resistance and bacteriology

(2009) KOK-FAI KONG et al.   APMIS

Bacterial cell curvature through mechanical control of cell growth

(2009) Matthew T Cabeen et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Human- and Plant-Pathogenic Pseudomonas Species Produce Bacteriocins Exhibiting Colicin M-Like Hydrolase Activity towards Peptidoglycan Precursors

(2009) H. Barreteau et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

MreB Drives De Novo Rod Morphogenesis in Caulobacter crescentus via Remodeling of the Cell Wall

(2009) C. N. Takacs et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Elucidation of the Structure ofThermotoga maritimaPeptidoglycan Reveals Two Novel Types of Cross-link

(2009) Audrey Boniface et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Crystal Structures of Penicillin-Binding Protein 6 fromEscherichia coli

(2009) Yu Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

D-Amino Acids Govern Stationary Phase Cell Wall Remodeling in Bacteria

(2009) H. Lam et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of the L,D-Transpeptidases for Peptidoglycan Cross-Linking in Escherichia coli

(2008) S. Magnet et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Peptidoglycan Sacculus of Myxococcus xanthus Has Unusual Structural Features and Is Degraded during Glycerol-Induced Myxospore Development

(2008) N. K. Bui et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Peptidoglycan of Stationary-Phase Mycobacterium tuberculosis Predominantly Contains Cross-Links Generated by L,D-Transpeptidation

(2008) M. Lavollay et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Crystal Structures of Complexes of Bacterial dd-Peptidases with Peptidoglycan-Mimetic Ligands: The Substrate Specificity Puzzle

(2008) Eric Sauvage et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Cell wall peptidoglycan architecture in Bacillus subtilis

(2008) E. J. Hayhurst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell shape and cell-wall organization in Gram-negative bacteria

(2008) K. C. Huang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular organization of Gram-negative peptidoglycan

(2008) L. Gan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PSICIC: Noise and Asymmetry in Bacterial Division Revealed by Computational Image Analysis at Sub-Pixel Resolution

(2008) Jonathan M. Guberman et al.   PLoS Computational Biology