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A viral protein antibiotic inhibits lipid II flippase activity

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Bacterial cell wall. MurJ is the flippase of lipid-linked precursors for peptidoglycan biogenesis.

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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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DegU-phosphate activates expression of the anti-sigma factor FlgM in Bacillus subtilis.

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

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

FtsEX is required for CwlO peptidoglycan hydrolase activity during cell wall elongation in Bacillus subtilis.

scientific article published on August 2013

High-Throughput Mutagenesis and Cross-Complementation Experiments Reveal Substrate Preference and Critical Residues of the Capsule Transporters in <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>

scientific article published on 02 November 2021

Influences of capsule on cell shape and chain formation of wild-type and pcsB mutants of serotype 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae.

scientific article published on 06 March 2009

Involvement of FtsE ATPase and FtsX extracellular loops 1 and 2 in FtsEX-PcsB complex function in cell division of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Localization and cellular amounts of the WalRKJ (VicRKX) two-component regulatory system proteins in serotype 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae.

scientific article published on 9 July 2010

Loss of specificity variants of WzxC suggest that substrate recognition is coupled with transporter opening in MOP-family flippases

scientific article published on 15 September 2018

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

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Mechanistic Study of Utilization of Water-Insoluble Saccharomyces cerevisiae Glucans by Bifidobacterium breve Strain JCM1192.

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MurJ and a novel lipid II flippase are required for cell wall biogenesis in Bacillus subtilis.

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Polymorphism and regulation of the spxB (pyruvate oxidase) virulence factor gene by a CBS-HotDog domain protein (SpxR) in serotype 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae.

scientific article published on 19 December 2007

RNA thermosensors facilitate Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae immune evasion

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

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

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Requirement of essential Pbp2x and GpsB for septal ring closure in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39.

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Selective penicillin-binding protein imaging probes reveal substructure in bacterial cell division.

scientific article published on 21 August 2012

Structure and mutagenic analysis of the lipid II flippase MurJ from

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America