Streptococcus gordonii type I lipoteichoic acid contributes to surface protein biogenesis

BP Lima, K Kho, BL Nairn, JR Davies, G Svensäter… - Msphere, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
protein biogenesis, affecting the presentation of several cell wall-associated proteins. These
… Our data implicate LTA as an important contributor to surface protein biogenesis, affecting …

Enzyme structures of the bacterial peptidoglycan and wall teichoic acid biogenesis pathways

NA Caveney, FKK Li, NCJ Strynadka - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
… the anionic polymer known as wall teichoic acid (WTA). WTAs are … leaflet for PG/WTA
biogenesis to continue efficiently is also … our understanding in the biogenesis of other bacterial cell …

Biogenesis of the Gram-positive bacterial cell envelope

SD Siegel, J Liu, H Ton-That - Current opinion in microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
… molecular platform for surface display of capsular polysaccharides, wall teichoic acids (WTAs),
lipoteichoic acids (LTAs), lipoproteins, surface proteins and pili. WTAs, LTAs, and sortase-…

Structure of a proton-dependent lipid transporter involved in lipoteichoic acids biosynthesis

B Zhang, X Liu, E Lambert, G Mas, S Hiller… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
Lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) are essential cell-wall components in Gram-positive bacteria,
including the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, contributing to cell adhesion, cell …

Controlling biofilm and virulence properties of Gram-positive bacteria by targeting wall teichoic acid and lipoteichoic acid

GJ Jeong, F Khan, N Tabassum, KJ Cho… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
… Nevertheless, teichoic acid (TA) serves a similar role in surface attachment in Gram-… teichoic
acid (WTA), and when it is linked to the cell membrane, it is referred to as lipoteichoic acid (…

Lipoteichoic acid mediates binding of a Lactobacillus S-layer protein

E Bönisch, YJ Oh, J Anzengruber, FF Hager… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… In this study, lipoteichoic acid was isolated from the L. … (NMR) revealed the lipoteichoic
acid to be composed of on … buchneri CD034 S-layer protein and purified lipoteichoic acid as …

The length of lipoteichoic acid polymers controls Staphylococcus aureus cell size and envelope integrity

AR Hesser, LM Matano, CR Vickery… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Here, we show that controlling the length of an essential cell envelope polymer, lipoteichoic
acid, is critical for controlling S. aureus cell size and cell envelope integrity. We also show …

[HTML][HTML] Crystallographic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus LcpA, the primary wall teichoic acid ligase

FKK Li, FI Rosell, RT Gale, JP Simorre… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
… Their cell walls are composed of a thick layer of peptidoglycan (PG) modified by the attachment
of wall teichoic acid (WTA), an anionic glycopolymer that is linked to pathogenicity and …

[HTML][HTML] Lipoteichoic acid deficiency permits normal growth but impairs virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae

N Heß, F Waldow, TP Kohler, M Rohde… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
… We propose that TacL is a lipoteichoic acid ligase acting in the final step of pnLTA synthesis
(Fig. 6). Our data are not consistent with the previously hypothesized role of SPD_1672 and …

The function of CozE proteins is linked to lipoteichoic acid biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus

MD Barbuti, E Lambert, IS Myrbråten, A Ducret… - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
… In this work, we discover that a family of membrane proteins named CozE is involved in the
biosynthesis of lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) in S. aureus. CozE proteins have previously been …