Peptidoglycan in obligate intracellular bacteria

Evidence for a peptidoglycan-like structure in Orientia tsutsugamushi

(2017) Sharanjeet Atwal et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

AmiD Is a Novel Peptidoglycan Amidase in Wolbachia Endosymbionts of Drosophila melanogaster

(2017) Miriam Wilmes et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Interplay between Penicillin-binding proteins and SEDS proteins promotes bacterial cell wall synthesis

(2017) Sophie Leclercq et al.   Scientific Reports

Catalytic mechanism of MraY and WecA, two paralogues of the polyprenyl-phosphate N-acetylhexosamine 1-phosphate transferase superfamily

(2016) Bayan Al-Dabbagh et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Sensing Gram-negative bacteria: a phylogenetic perspective

(2016) Claudine Neyen et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN IMMUNOLOGY

Regulation of bacterial cell wall growth

(2016) Alexander J. F. Egan et al.   FEBS Journal

Identification of a Novel N -Acetylmuramic Acid Transporter in Tannerella forsythia

(2016) Angela Ruscitto et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

SEDS proteins are a widespread family of bacterial cell wall polymerases

(2016) Alexander J. Meeske et al.   NATURE

Transovarial Transmission of Co-ExistingOrientia tsutsugamushiGenotypes in Laboratory-RearedLeptotrombidium imphalum

(2016) Ratree Takhampunya et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

The Redundancy of Peptidoglycan Carboxypeptidases Ensures Robust Cell Shape Maintenance in Escherichia coli

(2016) Katharina Peters et al.   mBio

Peptidoglycan Recycling in Gram-Positive Bacteria Is Crucial for Survival in Stationary Phase

(2016) Marina Borisova et al.   mBio

Pathogenic Chlamydia Lack a Classical Sacculus but Synthesize a Narrow, Mid-cell Peptidoglycan Ring, Regulated by MreB, for Cell Division

(2016) George Liechti et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Transcriptional Profiling of Coxiella burnetii Reveals Extensive Cell Wall Remodeling in the Small Cell Variant Developmental Form

(2016) Kelsi M. Sandoz et al.   PLoS One

Assembly of the Mycobacterial Cell Wall

(2015) Monika Jankute et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Current and Past Strategies for Bacterial Culture in Clinical Microbiology

(2015) Jean-Christophe Lagier et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Bacterial Actin and Tubulin Homologs in Cell Growth and Division

(2015) Kimberly K. Busiek et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Host-pathogen reorganisation during host cell entry by Chlamydia trachomatis

(2015) Andrea Nans et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Biogenesis of the lysosome-derived vacuole containing Coxiella burnetii

(2015) Lara J. Kohler et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Mycolic acids: deciphering and targeting the Achilles' heel of the tubercle bacillus

(2015) Vijayashankar Nataraj et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Activities and regulation of peptidoglycan synthases

(2015) Alexander J. F. Egan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What are the Evolutionary Origins of Mitochondria? A Complex Network Approach

(2015) Daniel S. Carvalho et al.   PLoS One

Structural characterization of muropeptides fromChlamydia trachomatispeptidoglycan by mass spectrometry resolves “chlamydial anomaly”

(2015) Mathanraj Packiam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Planctomycetes do possess a peptidoglycan cell wall

(2015) Olga Jeske et al.   Nature Communications

Anammox Planctomycetes have a peptidoglycan cell wall

(2015) Muriel C.F. van Teeseling et al.   Nature Communications

Neorickettsia sennetsu as a Neglected Cause of Fever in South-East Asia

(2015) Sabine Dittrich et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Beta-Lactam Antibiotics Induce a Lethal Malfunctioning of the Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis Machinery

(2014) Hongbaek Cho et al.   CELL

A host as an ecosystem:Wolbachiacoping with environmental constraints

(2014) Mathieu Sicard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Specificity of the Transport of Lipid II by FtsW inEscherichia coli

(2014) Tamimount Mohammadi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Deciphering the Metabolism of Undecaprenyl-Phosphate: The Bacterial Cell-Wall Unit Carrier at the Membrane Frontier

(2014) Guillaume Manat et al.   Microbial Drug Resistance

Chlamydia trachomatisprotein CT009 is a structural and functional homolog to the key morphogenesis component RodZ and interacts with division septal plane localized MreB

(2014) Kyle E. Kemege et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Transovarial Transmission of Orientia tsutsugamushi in Leptotrombidium palpale (Acari: Trombiculidae)

(2014) Eun Hee Shin et al.   PLoS One

MurJ is the flippase of lipid-linked precursors for peptidoglycan biogenesis

(2014) L.-T. Sham et al.   SCIENCE

Importance of amoebae as a tool to isolate amoeba-resisting microorganisms and for their ecology and evolution: theChlamydiaparadigm

(2014) Carole Kebbi-Beghdadi et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

FtsZ-independent septal recruitment and function of cell wall remodelling enzymes in chlamydial pathogens

(2014) Antonio Frandi et al.   Nature Communications

AmiA is a penicillin target enzyme with dual activity in the intracellular pathogen Chlamydia pneumoniae

(2014) Anna Klöckner et al.   Nature Communications

Envelope Control of Outer Membrane Vesicle Production in Gram-Negative Bacteria

(2013) Carmen Schwechheimer et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Requirement of lipid II biosynthesis for cell division in cell wall-less Wolbachia, endobacteria of arthropods and filarial nematodes

(2013) Jennifer Vollmer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Multidimensional View of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton

(2013) K. Celler et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Innate immune recognition of microbial cell wall components and microbial strategies to evade such recognitions

(2013) V. Sukhithasri et al.   MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

A new metabolic cell-wall labelling method reveals peptidoglycan in Chlamydia trachomatis

(2013) G. W. Liechti et al.   NATURE

Molecular pathogenesis of the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii

(2013) Erin J. van Schaik et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Discovery of chlamydial peptidoglycan reveals bacteria with murein sacculi but without FtsZ

(2013) Martin Pilhofer et al.   Nature Communications

Orientia tsutsugamushi Subverts Dendritic Cell Functions by Escaping from Autophagy and Impairing Their Migration

(2013) Ji-Hye Choi et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Viable screening targets related to the bacterial cell wall

(2012) Lynn L. Silver   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The physiology of bacterial cell division

(2012) Alexander J. F. Egan et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Active Escape of Orientia tsutsugamushi from Cellular Autophagy

(2012) Youngho Ko et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Chlamydia co-opts the rod shape-determining proteins MreB and Pbp2 for cell division

(2012) Scot P. Ouellette et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Orientia tsutsugamushi in Human Scrub Typhus Eschars Shows Tropism for Dendritic Cells and Monocytes Rather than Endothelium

(2012) Daniel H. Paris et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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

Identification of FtsW as a transporter of lipid-linked cell wall precursors across the membrane

(2011) Tamimount Mohammadi et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Leprosy now: epidemiology, progress, challenges, and research gaps

(2011) Laura C Rodrigues et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

From the regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis to bacterial growth and morphology

(2011) Athanasios Typas et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Processive Movement of MreB-Associated Cell Wall Biosynthetic Complexes in Bacteria

(2011) J. Dominguez-Escobar et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) E. C. Garner et al.   SCIENCE

Intracellular Invasion by Orientia tsutsugamushi Is Mediated by Integrin Signaling and Actin Cytoskeleton Rearrangements

(2010) B. A. Cho et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Review: Mammalian peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) in innate immunity

(2010) Roman Dziarski et al.   Innate Immunity

Upregulation of MetC Is Essential for D-Alanine-Independent Growth of an alr/dadX-Deficient Escherichia coli Strain

(2010) L. Kang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Q fever: the neglected biothreat agent

(2010) P. C. F. Oyston et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Orientia tsutsugamushi induced endothelial cell activation via the NOD1-IL-32 pathway

(2010) Kyung-Ah Cho et al.   MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS

How the insect immune system interacts with an obligate symbiotic bacterium

(2010) A. E. Douglas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Architecture of peptidoglycan: more data and more models

(2010) Waldemar Vollmer et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Bacterial Cell Envelope

(2010) T. J. Silhavy et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Anaplasma phagocytophilum Dense-Cored Organisms Mediate Cellular Adherence through Recognition of Human P-Selectin Glycoprotein Ligand 1

(2009) M. J. Troese et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Functional conservation of the lipid II biosynthesis pathway in the cell wall-less bacteriaChlamydiaandWolbachia: why is lipid II needed?

(2009) Beate Henrichfreise et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Penicillin Induced Persistence in Chlamydia trachomatis: High Quality Time Lapse Video Analysis of the Developmental Cycle

(2009) Rachel J. Skilton et al.   PLoS One

Host cell-free growth of the Q fever bacterium Coxiella burnetii

(2009) A. Omsland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome-Based Construction of the Metabolic Pathways ofOrientia tsutsugamushiand Comparative Analysis within the Rickettsiales Order

(2008) Chan-Ki Min et al.   COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

The Whole-genome Sequencing of the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi Revealed Massive Gene Amplification During Reductive Genome Evolution

(2008) K. Nakayama et al.   DNA RESEARCH

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

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

DivIVA Is Required for Polar Growth in the MreB-Lacking Rod-Shaped Actinomycete Corynebacterium glutamicum

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

Fibronectin Facilitates the Invasion ofOrientia tsutsugamushiinto Host Cells through Interaction with a 56‐kDa Type‐Specific Antigen

(2008) Jung‐Hee Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

How Bacteria Consume Their Own Exoskeletons (Turnover and Recycling of Cell Wall Peptidoglycan)

(2008) J. T. Park et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Teichoic acids and related cell-wall glycopolymers in Gram-positive physiology and host interactions

(2008) Christopher Weidenmaier et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Bioinformatics identification of MurJ (MviN) as the peptidoglycan lipid II flippase in Escherichia coli

(2008) N. Ruiz   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA