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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Peptidoglycan is the fundamental structural constituent of the bacterial cell wall. Despite many years of research, the architecture of peptidoglycan is still largely elusive.
Kang Li +12 more
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Innate Immunity, 2020 Defensins are critical components of the innate immune system and play an important role in the integration of innate and adaptive immune responses.
Juan Huang +6 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionMycobacteria assemble a complex cell wall with cross-linked peptidoglycan (PG) which plays an essential role in maintenance of cell wall integrity and tolerance to osmotic pressure.
Moagi T. Shaku +6 more
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The Integrity of the Cell Wall and Its Remodeling during Heterocyst Differentiation Are Regulated by Phylogenetically Conserved Small RNA Yfr1 in Nostoc sp. Strain PCC 7120 [PDF]
, 2020 Yfr1 is a strictly conserved small RNA in cyanobacteria. A bioinformatic prediction to identify possible interactions of Yfr1 with mRNAs was carried out by using the sequences of Yfr1 from several heterocyst-forming strains, including Nostoc sp.
Brenes Álvarez, Manuel +2 more
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Peptidoglycan structure and architecture [PDF]
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2008 The peptidoglycan (murein) sacculus is a unique and essential structural element in the cell wall of most bacteria. Made of glycan strands cross-linked by short peptides, the sacculus forms a closed, bag-shaped structure surrounding the cytoplasmic membrane.
Vollmer W, Blanot D, de Pedro MA
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Digestion of Peptidoglycan and Analysis of Soluble Fragments
Bio-Protocol, 2017 Peptidoglycan (murein) is a vital component of the cell wall of nearly all bacteria, composed of sugars linked by short peptides. This protocol describes the purification of macromolecular peptidoglycan from cultured bacteria and the analysis of enzyme ...
Ryan Schaub, Joseph Dillard
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Peptidoglycan: a post-genomic analysis [PDF]
BMC Microbiology, 2012 Abstract Background To derive post-genomic, neutral insight into the peptidoglycan (PG) distribution among organisms, we mined 1,644 genomes listed in the Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes database for the presence of a minimal 3-gene set that is necessary for PG metabolism.
Cayrou, Caroline +4 more
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Staphylococcus aureus DivIB is a peptidoglycan-binding protein that is required for a morphological checkpoint in cell division [PDF]
, 2014 Bacterial cell division is a fundamental process that requires the coordinated actions of a number of proteins which form a complex macromolecular machine known as the divisome.
Bottomley, Amy L. +5 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2015 ABSTRACT Bacterial endospores possess multiple integument layers, one of which is the cortex peptidoglycan wall. The cortex is essential for the maintenance of spore core dehydration and dormancy and contains structural modifications that differentiate it from vegetative cell peptidoglycan and determine its fate during spore ...
David L, Popham, Casey B, Bernhards
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Nod1 signaling overcomes resistance of S. pneumoniae to opsonophagocytic killing [PDF]
, 2007 Airway infection by the Gram-positive pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (Sp) leads to recruitment of neutrophils but limited bacterial killing by these cells.
Clarke, Thomas B. +6 more
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