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Effects of Low PBP2b Levels on Cell Morphology and Peptidoglycan Composition in Streptococcus pneumoniae R6

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How to get (a)round: mechanisms controlling growth and division of coccoid bacteria

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Environmental and Nutritional Factors That Affect Growth and Metabolism of the Pneumococcal Serotype 2 Strain D39 and Its Nonencapsulated Derivative Strain R6

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

(2012) Ozden Kocaoglu et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

The physiology of bacterial cell division

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Structural Perspective of Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis and Assembly

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Recent advances in pneumococcal peptidoglycan biosynthesis suggest new vaccine and antimicrobial targets

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Peptidoglycan Assembly Machines: The Biochemical Evidence

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Cellular aspects of the distinct M protein and SfbI anchoring pathways in Streptococcus pyogenes

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Involvement of WalK (VicK) phosphatase activity in setting WalR (VicR) response regulator phosphorylation level and limiting cross-talk inStreptococcus pneumoniaeD39 cells

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Control of cell division in Streptococcus pneumoniae by the conserved Ser/Thr protein kinase StkP

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

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The Requirement for Pneumococcal MreC and MreD Is Relieved by Inactivation of the Gene Encoding PBP1a

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Characterization of Mutants Deficient in the L,D-Carboxypeptidase (DacB) and WalRK (VicRK) Regulon, Involved in Peptidoglycan Maturation of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 2 Strain D39

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Physics of Bacterial Morphogenesis

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SMC is recruited to oriC by ParB and promotes chromosome segregation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2011) Anita Minnen et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2011) Richard Wheeler et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Multiple essential roles for EzrA in cell division of Staphylococcus aureus

(2011) Victoria R. Steele et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Mutational dissection of the S/T-kinase StkP reveals crucial roles in cell division of Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Essential PcsB putative peptidoglycan hydrolase interacts with the essential FtsXSpn cell division protein in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39

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MreB: pilot or passenger of cell wall synthesis?

(2011) Courtney L. White et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Dynamic Distribution of the SecA and SecY Translocase Subunits and Septal Localization of the HtrA Surface Chaperone/Protease during Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 Cell Division

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Compensatory Evolution of pbp Mutations Restores the Fitness Cost Imposed by β-Lactam Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2011) Andrea G. Albarracín Orio et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Bacterial Shape: Two-Dimensional Questions and Possibilities

(2010) Kevin D. Young   Annual Review of Microbiology

Localization and Cellular Amounts of the WalRKJ (VicRKX) Two-Component Regulatory System Proteins in Serotype 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae

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A new morphogenesis pathway in bacteria: unbalanced activity of cell wall synthesis machineries leads to coccus-to-rod transition and filamentation in ovococci

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In Vivo Structure of the E. coli FtsZ-ring Revealed by Photoactivated Localization Microscopy (PALM)

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Influences of Capsule on Cell Shape and Chain Formation of Wild-Type and pcsB Mutants of Serotype 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2009) S. M. Barendt et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Two-Step Assembly Dynamics of the Bacillus subtilis Divisome

(2009) P. Gamba et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Identification and Characterization of Noncoding Small RNAs in Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 2 Strain D39

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Tn-seq: high-throughput parallel sequencing for fitness and genetic interaction studies in microorganisms

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An Important Site in PBP2x of Penicillin-Resistant Clinical Isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Mutational Analysis of Thr338

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Cytological Characterization of YpsB, a Novel Component of the Bacillus subtilis Divisome

(2008) J. R. Tavares et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Control of the cell elongation–division cycle by shuttling of PBP1 protein in Bacillus subtilis

(2008) Dennis Claessen et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY