Unipolar Peptidoglycan Synthesis in the Rhizobiales Requires an Essential Class A Penicillin-Binding Protein

Regulation and function of class A Penicillin-binding proteins

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LD‐transpeptidases: the great unknown among the peptidoglycan cross‐linkers

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Polar Growth in Corynebacterium glutamicum Has a Flexible Cell Wall Synthase Requirement

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Class A PBPs have a distinct and unique role in the construction of the pneumococcal cell wall

(2020) Daniel Straume et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Class-A penicillin binding proteins do not contribute to cell shape but repair cell-wall defects

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Structural coordination of polymerization and crosslinking by a SEDS–bPBP peptidoglycan synthase complex

(2020) Megan Sjodt et al.   Nature Microbiology

FtsW is a peptidoglycan polymerase that is functional only in complex with its cognate penicillin-binding protein

(2019) Atsushi Taguchi et al.   Nature Microbiology

Agrobacterium tumefaciens divisome proteins regulate the transition from polar growth to cell division

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β-Lactamases and β-Lactamase Inhibitors in the 21st Century

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GROWTH POLE RING protein forms a 200-nm-diameter ring structure essential for polar growth and rod shape in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

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Plasticity of Escherichia coli cell wall metabolism promotes fitness and antibiotic resistance across environmental conditions

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SEDS–bPBP pairs direct lateral and septal peptidoglycan synthesis in Staphylococcus aureus

(2019) Nathalie T. Reichmann et al.   Nature Microbiology

Bacillus subtilis cell diameter is determined by the opposing actions of two distinct cell wall synthetic systems

(2019) Michael F. Dion et al.   Nature Microbiology

Mechanisms of Incorporation for D-Amino Acid Probes That Target Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis

(2019) Erkin Kuru et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Imaging Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis

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How to Build a Bacterial Cell: MreB as the Foreman of E. coli Construction

(2018) Handuo Shi et al.   CELL

Transposon sequencing of Brucella abortus uncovers essential genes for growth in vitro and inside macrophages

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Seven-transmembrane receptor protein RgsP and cell wall-binding protein RgsM promote unipolar growth in Rhizobiales

(2018) Simon Schäper et al.   PLoS Genetics

Peptidoglycan precursor synthesis along the sidewall of pole-growing mycobacteria

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The Fluorescent D-Amino Acid NADA as a Tool to Study the Conditional Activity of Transpeptidases in Escherichia coli

(2018) Alejandro Montón Silva et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A central role for PBP2 in the activation of peptidoglycan polymerization by the bacterial cell elongation machinery

(2018) Patricia D. A. Rohs et al.   PLoS Genetics

Maturing Mycobacterium smegmatis peptidoglycan requires non-canonical crosslinks to maintain shape

(2018) Catherine Baranowski et al.   eLife

Dynamics of the peptidoglycan biosynthetic machinery in the stalked budding bacteriumHyphomonas neptunium

(2017) Emöke Cserti et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

MobiDB 3.0: more annotations for intrinsic disorder, conformational diversity and interactions in proteins

(2017) Damiano Piovesan et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Full color palette of fluorescent d-amino acids for in situ labeling of bacterial cell walls

(2017) Yen-Pang Hsu et al.   Chemical Science

Fosfomycin: Mechanism and Resistance

(2017) Lynn L. Silver   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Live Cell Fluorescence Microscopy to Observe Essential Processes During Microbial Cell Growth

(2017) Matthew Howell et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Fluorescent D-amino-acids reveal bi-cellular cell wall modifications important for Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predation

(2017) Erkin Kuru et al.   Nature Microbiology

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

(2017) Sophie Leclercq et al.   Scientific Reports

Mini-Tn7Insertion in an ArtificialattTn7Site Enables Depletion of the Essential Master Regulator CtrA in the Phytopathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens

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SEDS proteins are a widespread family of bacterial cell wall polymerases

(2016) Alexander J. Meeske et al.   NATURE

Non-classical transpeptidases yield insight into new antibacterials

(2016) Pankaj Kumar et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Signaling in the Rhizosphere

(2016) Vittorio Venturi et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Factors essential for L,D-transpeptidase-mediated peptidoglycan cross-linking and β-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli

(2016) Jean-Emmanuel Hugonnet et al.   eLife

Bacterial cell wall biogenesis is mediated by SEDS and PBP polymerase families functioning semi-autonomously

(2016) Hongbaek Cho et al.   Nature Microbiology

MicrobeJ, a tool for high throughput bacterial cell detection and quantitative analysis

(2016) Adrien Ducret et al.   Nature Microbiology

Phosphorylation of the Peptidoglycan Synthase PonA1 Governs the Rate of Polar Elongation in Mycobacteria

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Molecular mechanisms for the evolution of bacterial morphologies and growth modes

(2015) Amelia M. Randich et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Nonclassical Transpeptidases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Alter Cell Size, Morphology, the Cytosolic Matrix, Protein Localization, Virulence, and Resistance to  -Lactams

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Function and Localization Dynamics of Bifunctional Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Caulobacter crescentus

(2014) W. Strobel et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Identification of essential alphaproteobacterial genes reveals operational variability in conserved developmental and cell cycle systems

(2014) Patrick D. Curtis et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Synthesis of fluorescent D-amino acids and their use for probing peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial growth in situ

(2014) Erkin Kuru et al.   Nature Protocols

Peptidoglycan Synthesis Machinery in Agrobacterium tumefaciens During Unipolar Growth and Cell Division

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Biological Consequences and Advantages of Asymmetric Bacterial Growth

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In VitroCross-Linking of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Peptidoglycan by l,d-Transpeptidases and Inactivation of These Enzymes by Carbapenems

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

(2013) G. W. Liechti et al.   NATURE

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

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Crystal Structures of Penicillin-Binding Protein 3 (PBP3) from Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Apo and Cefotaxime‐Bound Forms

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Cooperativity of peptidoglycan synthases active in bacterial cell elongation

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Top 10 plant pathogenic bacteria in molecular plant pathology

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Cell Division Site Placement and Asymmetric Growth in Mycobacteria

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Polar growth in the Alphaproteobacterial order Rhizobiales

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From the regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis to bacterial growth and morphology

(2011) Athanasios Typas et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Asymmetry and Aging of Mycobacterial Cells Lead to Variable Growth and Antibiotic Susceptibility

(2011) B. B. Aldridge et al.   SCIENCE

Modular synthesis of diphospholipid oligosaccharide fragments of the bacterial cell wall and their use to study the mechanism of moenomycin and other antibiotics

(2011) Christian M. Gampe et al.   TETRAHEDRON

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

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

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

The putative penicillin-binding proteins 1 and 2 are important for viability, growth and cell morphology of Brucella melitensis

(2008) Aloka B. Bandara et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

Murein (peptidoglycan) structure, architecture and biosynthesis in Escherichia coli

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