The Medium Is the Message: Interspecies and Interkingdom Signaling by Peptidoglycan and Related Bacterial Glycans

A Lysin motif (LysM)-containing protein functions in antibacterial responses of red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii

(2013) Xiu-Zhen Shi et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Cooperative binding of LysM domains determines the carbohydrate affinity of a bacterial endopeptidase protein

(2013) Jaslyn E. M. M. Wong et al.   FEBS Journal

The embryonic expression patterns of zebrafish genes encoding LysM-domains

(2013) F.J.F. Laroche et al.   GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS

Commensal bacteria at the interface of host metabolism and the immune system

(2013) Jonathan R Brestoff et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Community surveillance enhances Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence during polymicrobial infection

(2013) A. Korgaonkar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

3D printing of microscopic bacterial communities

(2013) J. L. Connell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sensing of the Microbial Neighborhood by Candida albicans

(2013) Emily M. Mallick et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Selective Penicillin-Binding Protein Imaging Probes Reveal Substructure in Bacterial Cell Division

(2012) Ozden Kocaoglu 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

Bacterial cell-wall recycling

(2012) Jarrod W. Johnson et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Peptidoglycan fragments stimulate resuscitation of “non-culturable” mycobacteria

(2012) Vadim D. Nikitushkin et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Squid-Derived Chitin Oligosaccharides Are a Chemotactic Signal during Colonization by Vibrio fischeri

(2012) Mark J. Mandel et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Nutrient-Dependent Structural Changes in S. aureus Peptidoglycan Revealed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

(2012) Xiaoxue Zhou et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Messenger Functions of the Bacterial Cell Wall-derived Muropeptides

(2012) Marc A. Boudreau et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Peptidoglycan Sensing by the Receptor PGRP-LE in the Drosophila Gut Induces Immune Responses to Infectious Bacteria and Tolerance to Microbiota

(2012) Virginie Bosco-Drayon et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Identification of Proteins Likely To Be Involved in Morphogenesis, Cell Division, and Signal Transduction in Planctomycetes by Comparative Genomics

(2012) Christian Jogler et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Pathogen Sensing by Nucleotide-binding Oligomerization Domain-containing Protein 2 (NOD2) Is Mediated by Direct Binding to Muramyl Dipeptide and ATP

(2012) Jinyao Mo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Innate Immune Protein Nod2 Binds Directly to MDP, a Bacterial Cell Wall Fragment

(2012) Catherine Leimkuhler Grimes et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Peptidoglycan as Nod1 ligand; fragment structures in the environment, chemical synthesis, and their innate immunostimulation

(2012) Yukari Fujimoto et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Legume receptors perceive the rhizobial lipochitin oligosaccharide signal molecules by direct binding

(2012) A. Broghammer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chitin-Induced Dimerization Activates a Plant Immune Receptor

(2012) T. Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Plant LysM proteins: modules mediating symbiosis and immunity

(2012) Andrea A. Gust et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

A Peptidoglycan Fragment Triggers β-lactam Resistance in Bacillus licheniformis

(2012) Ana Amoroso et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Peptidoglycan turnover and recycling in Gram-positive bacteria

(2011) Jan Reith et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Mucosal biofilms of Candida albicans

(2011) Shantanu Ganguly et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Extracellular Movement of Signaling Molecules

(2011) Patrick Müller et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Chemical Basis of Peptidoglycan Discrimination by PrkC, a Key Kinase Involved in Bacterial Resuscitation from Dormancy

(2011) Flavia Squeglia et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Arabidopsis lysin-motif proteins LYM1 LYM3 CERK1 mediate bacterial peptidoglycan sensing and immunity to bacterial infection

(2011) R. Willmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Extracytoplasmic Domain of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ser/Thr Kinase PknB Binds Specific Muropeptides and Is Required for PknB Localization

(2011) Mushtaq Mir et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Wall Teichoic Acids of Staphylococcus aureus Limit Recognition by the Drosophila Peptidoglycan Recognition Protein-SA to Promote Pathogenicity

(2011) Magda L. Atilano et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Global Phylogeography of Chitinase Genes in Aquatic Metagenomes

(2010) Sara Beier et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Attenuation of host NO production by MAMPs potentiates development of the host in the squid-vibrio symbiosis

(2010) Melissa A. Altura et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Synthetic Peptidoglycan Motifs for Germination of Bacterial Spores

(2010) Mijoon Lee et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Recognition of peptidoglycan and β-lactam antibiotics by the extracellular domain of the Ser/Thr protein kinase StkP fromStreptococcus pneumoniae

(2010) Beatriz Maestro et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Modifications to the Peptidoglycan Backbone Help Bacteria To Establish Infection

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

Muropeptide Rescue in Bacillus subtilis Involves Sequential Hydrolysis by  -N-Acetylglucosaminidase and N-Acetylmuramyl-L-Alanine Amidase

(2010) S. Litzinger et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Enhances Production of an Antimicrobial in Response to N-Acetylglucosamine and Peptidoglycan

(2010) A. K. Korgaonkar et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Lysin Motif Receptor-like Kinase (LysM-RLK) CERK1 Is a Major Chitin-binding Protein inArabidopsis thalianaand Subject to Chitin-induced Phosphorylation

(2010) Elena K. Petutschnig et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Induction and regulation of a secreted peptidoglycan hydrolase by a membrane Ser/Thr kinase that detects muropeptides

(2010) Ishita M. Shah et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Division and cell envelope regulation by Ser/Thr phosphorylation:Mycobacteriumshows the way

(2010) Virginie Molle et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Recognition of peptidoglycan from the microbiota by Nod1 enhances systemic innate immunity

(2010) Thomas B Clarke et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Exit from dormancy in microbial organisms

(2010) Jonathan Dworkin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Medically important bacterial–fungal interactions

(2010) Anton Y. Peleg et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial community transcriptomes reveal microbes and metabolic pathways associated with dissolved organic matter turnover in the sea

(2010) J. McCarren et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Architecture of peptidoglycan: more data and more models

(2010) Waldemar Vollmer et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Germination of spores of Bacillales and Clostridiales species: mechanisms and proteins involved

(2010) Daniel Paredes-Sabja et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

N-Acetylglucosamine Induces White to Opaque Switching, a Mating Prerequisite in Candida albicans

(2010) Guanghua Huang et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Evolutionary genomics of LysM genes in land plants

(2009) Xue-Cheng Zhang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

New developments in microbial interspecies signaling

(2009) Elizabeth Anne Shank et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Resuscitation-promoting factors as lytic enzymes for bacterial growth and signaling

(2009) Bavesh Davandra Kana et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Direct Binding of a Plant LysM Receptor-like Kinase, LysM RLK1/CERK1, to Chitinin Vitro

(2009) Ei'ichi Iizasa et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Binding and Cellular Activation Studies Reveal That Toll-like Receptor 2 Can Differentially Recognize Peptidoglycan from Gram-positive and Gram-negative Bacteria

(2009) Jinkeng Asong et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The resuscitation-promoting factors ofMycobacterium tuberculosisare required for virulence and resuscitation from dormancy but are collectively dispensable for growthin vitro

(2009) Bavesh D. Kana et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Long-Range Activation of Systemic Immunity through Peptidoglycan Diffusion in Drosophila

(2009) Mathilde Gendrin et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A Eukaryotic-like Ser/Thr Kinase Signals Bacteria to Exit Dormancy in Response to Peptidoglycan Fragments

(2008) Ishita M. Shah et al.   CELL

Bacterial Peptidoglycan Triggers Candida albicans Hyphal Growth by Directly Activating the Adenylyl Cyclase Cyr1p

(2008) Xiao-Li Xu et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Muramylpeptide shedding modulates cell sensing of Shigella flexneri

(2008) Giulia Nigro et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Peptidoglycan and Muropeptides from Pathogens Agrobacterium and Xanthomonas Elicit Plant Innate Immunity: Structure and Activity

(2008) Gitte Erbs et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

Structures of the Toll-like Receptor Family and Its Ligand Complexes

(2008) Mi Sun Jin et al.   IMMUNITY

A Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rpf Double-Knockout Strain Exhibits Profound Defects in Reactivation from Chronic Tuberculosis and Innate Immunity Phenotypes

(2008) E. Russell-Goldman et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Detection and Localization of Single LysM-Peptidoglycan Interactions

(2008) G. Andre et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Mutations in ampG and Lytic Transglycosylase Genes Affect the Net Release of Peptidoglycan Monomers from Vibrio fischeri

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

Characterization and Evolution of Cell Division and Cell Wall Synthesis Genes in the Bacterial Phyla Verrucomicrobia, Lentisphaerae, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes and Phylogenetic Comparison with rRNA Genes

(2008) M. Pilhofer 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

Neisseria gonorrhoeae Uses Two Lytic Transglycosylases To Produce Cytotoxic Peptidoglycan Monomers

(2008) K. A. Cloud-Hansen et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Mutations in ampG or ampD Affect Peptidoglycan Fragment Release from Neisseria gonorrhoeae

(2008) D. L. Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Bacterial Growth and Cell Division: a Mycobacterial Perspective

(2008) E. C. Hett et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

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

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

LysM, a widely distributed protein motif for binding to (peptido)glycans

(2008) Girbe Buist et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Lymphoid tissue genesis induced by commensals through NOD1 regulates intestinal homeostasis

(2008) Djahida Bouskra et al.   NATURE

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