Teichoic acids and related cell-wall glycopolymers in Gram-positive physiology and host interactions

C Weidenmaier, A Peschel - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2008 - nature.com
… CWG polymers are shown as chains of circles within the cell wall. Differences in the
composition of CWG repeating units are indicated by different colours. Linkage units that connect …

The wall teichoic acid and lipoteichoic acid polymers of Staphylococcus aureus

G Xia, T Kohler, A Peschel - International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2010 - Elsevier
teichoic acid (TA) polymers into their cell envelopes. … cell wall maintenance have been
assigned to these polymers, which are either covalently linked to peptidoglycan (wall teichoic acid

Teichoic acids, lipoteichoic acids and related cell wall glycopolymers of Gram-positive bacteria

T Kohler, G Xia, E Kulauzovic, A Peschel - Microbial glycobiology, 2010 - Elsevier
polymers in their cell wall whose structure, function and biosynthesis are only superficially
understood. The composition of these cell wall … for the cell wall-anchored wall teichoic acid (…

Teichoic acids, lipoteichoic acids and other secondary cell wall and membrane polysaccharides of gram-positive bacteria

IR Poxton - Molecular medical microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
… epidermidis, concentration-dependent stimulation of monocyte production of TNF-α, IL-6
and IL-1 was observed with both wall polymers, though teichoic acid had relatively little effect …

Biosynthesis of the bacterial envelope polymers teichoic acid and teichuronic acid

IC Hancock, J Baddiley - The Enzymes of Biological Membranes: Volume 2 …, 1985 - Springer
teichoic acids are a group of phosphate-containing polymers found in many Gram-positive
bacterial cell … the covalent linkage of teichoic acids to peptidoglycan in the cell wall was very …

Lipoteichoic acids, phosphate-containing polymers in the envelope of gram-positive bacteria

O Schneewind, D Missiakas - Journal of bacteriology, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Due to their supramolecular structure, the murein sacculi (cell wall peptidoglycan) in …
sediment and teichoic acids associated with such preparations were named wall teichoic acid (WTA…

Wall Teichoic Acid Polymers Are Dispensable for Cell Viability in Bacillus subtilis

MA D'Elia, KE Millar, TJ Beveridge… - Journal of …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Here we show that despite a significant literature to the contrary, teichoic acid polymers are
… of the organism to produce cell wall containing teichoic acid polymers, as shown by the …

Teichoic and teichuronic acids: biosynthesis, assembly, and location

JB Ward - Microbiological reviews, 1981 - Am Soc Microbiol
… both teichoic acid and certain teichuronic acids and in particular of the mechanisms whereby
these polymers … membrane and wall polymers. This latter information is largely restricted to …

Structure and synthesis of cell wall, spore cortex, teichoic acids, S‐layers, and capsules

SJ Foster, DL Popham - … Closest Relatives: from Genes to Cells, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… is only 1 to 2 layers thick, while the gram-positive peptidogly can is 10 to 20 layers thick and
contains covalently linked anionic polymers, such as teichoic and/or teichuronic acids. This …

Mechanism of d-alanine transfer to teichoic acids shows how bacteria acylate cell envelope polymers

BJ Schultz, ED Snow, S Walker - Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
… Bacterial cell envelope polymers are often modified with acyl … acid (Dlt) pathway as a
paradigm, we have identified a widespread strategy for how acylation of cell envelope polymers