… TAs are usually constitutively produced and either connected to PG (wall teichoic acids,
WTA) or to the cytoplasmic membrane (lipoteichoic acids, LTA). S. aureus and most other Gram-…

… by wall teichoic acids (WTA) and acidic polysaccharides commonly described as teichuronic
acids, polyanionic macromolecules that are covalently linked components of the cell wall. A …

… Recent studies have yielded a growing picture of the biosynthetic pathways for the cell
wall-anchored wall teichoic acid (WTA) and the membrane-anchored lipoteichoic acid (LTA) in …

… Brown and co-workers have speculated that their reporter assay can be used in a high-throughput
screen to identify compounds that target either the cell wall or wall teichoic acid …

… (ribitol phosphate), although they were named teichoic acids and were not differentiated from
lipoteichoic acids (LTAs, cell-membrane-associated teichoic acids) (Armstrong et al. 1958a,…

… Determination of strain-specific wall teichoic acid structures in Lactobacillus plantarum reveals
… Figure 1A chemical view of two types of Listeria cell wall teichoic acids. A, structure of the …

… A typical Gram-positive bacterial cell wall is composed of peptidoglycan and the secondary
cell wall polymers, wall teichoic acid (WTA) and lipoteichoic acid (LTA). In many Gram-…

… Teichoic acids include both lipoteichoic acids (LTAs), which are anchored in the bacterial
membrane via a glycolipid, and WTAs, which are covalently attached to PG (91, 133) ( Figure 1 …

… The Bacillus subtilis dlt operon (D-alanyl-lipoteichoic acid) is responsible for D-alanine
esterification of both lipoteichoic acid (LTA) and wall teichoic acid (WTA). The dlt operon contains …

… walls (about 60% of total cell wall mass) [11]. When TA is anchored to the cell wall, it is referred
to as wall teichoic acid (… cell membrane, it is referred to as lipoteichoic acid (LTA) (Fig. 1) […