Insight into the structure, biosynthesis, isolation method and biological function of teichoic acid in different gram-positive microorganisms: A review

J Han, X Zhao, X Zhao, P Li, Q Gu - International Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Teichoic acid (TA) is a weakly anionic polymer present in the cell walls of Gram-positive
bacteria. It can be classified into wall teichoic acid (WTA) and lipoteichoic acid (LTA) based on …

D-Alanylation of teichoic acids contributes to Lactobacillus plantarum-mediated Drosophila growth during chronic undernutrition

RC Matos, M Schwarzer, H Gervais, P Courtin… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
… with predicted functions in cell wall biogenesis and remodelling. Deletion of this operon
alters the bacterial cell wall due to complete loss of d-alanylation of teichoic acids (TAs), and …

B. subtilis LytR-CpsA-Psr enzymes transfer wall teichoic acids from authentic lipid-linked substrates to mature peptidoglycan in vitro

RT Gale, FKK Li, T Sun, NCJ Strynadka, ED Brown - Cell chemical biology, 2017 - cell.com
… In this report, we synthesized authentic undecaprenyl diphosphate-linked wall teichoic
acid (WTA) intermediates and built an assay system capable of monitoring LCP-mediated …

Evidence of immunostimulating lipoprotein existing in the natural lipoteichoic acid fraction

M Hashimoto, M Furuyashiki, R Kaseya… - Infection and …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Lipoteichoic acid (LTA) is a cell surface glycoconjugate of gram-positive bacteria and is …
Lipoteichoic acid (LTA) is a macroamphiphile distributing on the cell surfaces of gram-positive …

Localization and Interactions of Teichoic Acid Synthetic Enzymes in Bacillus subtilis

A Formstone, R Carballido-López, P Noirot… - Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
… suggested that CW biogenesis may occur in a helical manner governed by the MreB (actin-like)
proteins, we decided to make a more systematic study of Tag protein localization and of …

A switch in surface polymer biogenesis triggers growth-phase-dependent and antibiotic-induced bacteriolysis

J Flores-Kim, GS Dobihal, A Fenton, DZ Rudner… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
… Here, we show that alterations in surface polymers called teichoic acids (TAs) play a key …
primarily produce lipid-anchored TAs called lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) that bind and sequester …

Comparison of lipoteichoic acid from different serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae

C Draing, M Pfitzenmaier, S Zummo, G Mancuso… - Journal of Biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
… several layers of peptidoglycan with bound teichoic acids and lipoteichoic acids (LTA), …
) the pneumococcal lipoteichoic acid has a completely different chemical structure to the well …

[PDF][PDF] Bacterial lipoproteins: biogenesis, virulence/pathogenicity and trafficking

H Tokuda, P Sander, B Lee, S Okuda… - Bacterial …, 2014 - ndl.ethernet.edu.et
… secondary glycopolymers, such as wall teichoic acid and lipoteichoic acid. Owing to the
presence of a single membrane, these bacteria are classified as monoderm bacteria (Fig. 4.1 c). …

Lipoteichoic acids are embedded in cell walls during logarithmic phase, but exposed on membrane vesicles in Lactobacillus gasseri JCM 1131T

T Shiraishi, S Yokota, Y Sato, T Ito… - Beneficial …, 2018 - wageningenacademic.com
… The antibody did not bind to other cellular components, including wall-teichoic acid.
Immunoelectron microscopy indicated that LTA was embedded in the cell wall during the logarithmic …

Teichoic acid is the major polysaccharide present in the Listeria monocytogenes biofilm matrix

T Brauge, I Sadovskaya, C Faille… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… were identified as teichoic acids, structurally identical to cell wall teichoic acids. In addition,
teichoic acids in L. monocytogenes biofilms have the same origin as cell wall teichoic acid. …