Genetic Response to Bacteriophage Infection in Lactococcus lactis Reveals a Four-Strand Approach Involving Induction of Membrane Stress Proteins, d-Alanylation …

V Fallico, RP Ross, GF Fitzgerald… - Journal of virology, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
… whose putative functions are involved to different extents in biogenesis, modification, and …
) into teichoic acids (TAs), either cell wall teichoic acids (WTAs) or LTAs, by the Dlt proteins. …

Genomic characterization of ribitol teichoic acid synthesis in Staphylococcus aureus: genes, genomic organization and gene duplication

Z Qian, Y Yin, Y Zhang, L Lu, Y Li, Y Jiang - BMC genomics, 2006 - Springer
… aureus strains we analyzed, tar (teichoic acid ribitol) is the main teichoic acid biogenesis
We also report the genomic organization of the teichoic acid biogenesis genes, which is …

The cell wall binding domain of Listeria bacteriophage endolysin PlyP35 recognizes terminal GlcNAc residues in cell wall teichoic acid

MR Eugster, MC Haug, SG Huwiler… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… PlyP35 with carbohydrate residues present in the teichoic acid polymers on the peptidoglycan.
… Binding of CBDP35 could be prevented by removal of wall teichoic acid (WTA) polymers …

Enterococcus faecalis lipoteichoic acid regulates macrophages autophagy via PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway

D Lin, Y Gao, L Zhao, Y Chen, S An, Z Peng - Biochemical and biophysical …, 2018 - Elsevier
… faecalis lipoteichoic acid (LTA), has potential role in bone resorption in PAP by upregulating
the expression of RANKL and OPG [3]. Recent studies have also shown that E. faecalis LTA …

Biosynthesis of the unique wall teichoic acid of Staphylococcus aureus lineage ST395

V Winstel, P Sanchez-Carballo, O Holst, G Xia… - MBio, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
… anionic poly-ribitol-phosphate (RboP) wall teichoic acids (WTA) substituted with d-Alanine
and N-… IMPORTANCE The structural highly diverse wall teichoic acids (WTA) are cell wall-…

Lipoteichoic acids influence cell shape and bacterial division of Streptococcus suis serotype 2, but play a limited role in the pathogenesis of the infection

S Payen, MC Giroux, N Gisch, U Schombel… - Veterinary …, 2024 - Springer
… suis virulence, while cell wall components, such as proteins and lipoteichoic acids (LTA),
have been proposed to contribute to the virulence of the organism [5,6,7,8,9]. …

Spatial regulation of protein A in Staphylococcus aureus

R Zhang, MA Shebes, K Kho, SJ Scaffidi… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… peptidoglycan layer, teichoic acids including wall teichoic acid (WTA) and lipoteichoic acid
(LTA… the vital roles of teichoic acids in regulating the biogenesis of cell envelope components. …

Deficiency in Lipoteichoic Acid Synthesis Causes a Failure in Executing the Colony Developmental Program in Bacillus subtilis

G Mamou, O Fiyaksel, L Sinai… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… Here we conducted a genetic screen surveying for mutants deficient in these early developmental
stages, and revealed LtaS, the major lipoteichoic acid (LTA) synthase, to be crucial for …

The molecular architecture of Lactobacillus S-layer: Assembly and attachment to teichoic acids

T Sagmeister, N Gubensäk… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
… Considering the structure and composition of the Lactobacillus cell, we suggest that the S-layer
can bind to both groups of teichoic acids, LTA and WTA, that have a chain structure with …

Biogenesis and functions of bacterial S-layers

RP Fagan, NF Fairweather - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2014 - nature.com
… As SLPs are some of the most abundant proteins in the cell 2 , their biogenesis consumes
considerable metabolic resources, which reflects their importance to the organism. S-layers …