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Revision as of 11:36, 5 January 2014

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Cell wall synthesis is intimately linked to the determination of cell shape. The proteins involved in both functions interact in the cell wall biosynthetic complex.

Genes in this functional category

Biosynthesis of peptidoglycan

Autolytic activity required for peptidoglycan synthesis (cell elongation)

Biosynthesis of lipoteichoic acid

Biosynthesis of teichoic acid

Biosynthesis of teichuronic acid

Penicillin-binding proteins

Export of anionic polymers and attachment to peptidoglycan

Biosynthesis of the carrier lipid undecaprenylphosphate

Important Original Publications


Important Reviews

Timothy K Lee, Kerwyn Casey Huang
The role of hydrolases in bacterial cell-wall growth.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2013, 16(6);760-6
[PubMed:24035761] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Stephanie Brown, John P Santa Maria, Suzanne Walker
Wall teichoic acids of gram-positive bacteria.
Annu Rev Microbiol: 2013, 67;313-36
[PubMed:24024634] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Mariana G Pinho, Morten Kjos, Jan-Willem Veening
How to get (a)round: mechanisms controlling growth and division of coccoid bacteria.
Nat Rev Microbiol: 2013, 11(9);601-14
[PubMed:23949602] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Orietta Massidda, Linda Nováková, Waldemar Vollmer
From models to pathogens: how much have we learned about Streptococcus pneumoniae cell division?
Environ Microbiol: 2013, 15(12);3133-57
[PubMed:23848140] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

David L Popham
Visualizing the production and arrangement of peptidoglycan in Gram-positive cells.
Mol Microbiol: 2013, 88(4);645-9
[PubMed:23551458] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Nathalie T Reichmann, Angelika Gründling
Location, synthesis and function of glycolipids and polyglycerolphosphate lipoteichoic acid in Gram-positive bacteria of the phylum Firmicutes.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2011, 319(2);97-105
[PubMed:21388439] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Iain C Sutcliffe
Priming and elongation: dissection of the lipoteichoic acid biosynthetic pathway in Gram-positive bacteria.
Mol Microbiol: 2011, 79(3);553-6
[PubMed:21255102] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Waldemar Vollmer, Stephen J Seligman
Architecture of peptidoglycan: more data and more models.
Trends Microbiol: 2010, 18(2);59-66
[PubMed:20060721] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Amit P Bhavsar, Eric D Brown
Cell wall assembly in Bacillus subtilis: how spirals and spaces challenge paradigms.
Mol Microbiol: 2006, 60(5);1077-90
[PubMed:16689786] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

George C Stewart
Taking shape: control of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis.
Mol Microbiol: 2005, 57(5);1177-81
[PubMed:16101993] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)


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