Failure to detect muramic acid in normal rat tissues but detection in cerebrospinal fluids from patients with Pneumococcal meningitis

MP Kozar, MT Krahmer, A Fox, BM Gray - Infection and immunity, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
Muramic acid serves as a marker for the presence of bacterial cell wall debris in mammalian
tissues. There have been a number of controversial and sometimes conflicting results on …

[PDF][PDF] Bordetella infections in dogs and cats: Pathogenesis, clinical signs, and diagnosis

C Datz - Compendium, 2003 - vetfolio-vetstreet.s3.amazonaws.com
Bordetella bronchiseptica is a common cause of respiratory infection in dogs and cats. The
disease has a high morbidity but low mortality and is diagnosed in individual pets as well as …

Purification and characterization of N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidase from human plasma using monoclonal antibodies

MA Hoijer, MJ Melief, W Keck, MP Hazenberg - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 1996 - Elsevier
N-Acetylmuramyl-l-alanine amidase (EC 3.5. 1.28) cleaves the amide bond between N-
acetyl muramic acid and l-alanine in the peptide side chain of different peptidoglycan …

Monitoring muramic acid in air (after alditol acetate derivatization) using a gas chromatograph-ion trap tandem mass spectrometer

A Fox, M Krahmer, D Harrelson - Journal of microbiological methods, 1996 - Elsevier
Muramic acid is a chemical marker for bacterial peptidoglycan. Air monitoring was
performed in a stable and a dairy. Airborne dust was collected for 68–95 h on Teflon filters …

Characterization of the outer membrane proteins of Bordetella avium

R Leyh, RW Griffith - Infection and immunity, 1992 - Am Soc Microbiol
The outer membrane proteins of Bordetella avium were examined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Sarkosyl-insoluble outer membrane protein-enriched …

Enzymatic preparation of 1,6-anhydro-muropeptides by immobilized murein hydrolases from Escherichia coli fused to staphylococcal protein A

H Engel, AM van Leeuwen, A Dijkstra… - Applied microbiology and …, 1992 - Springer
In order to produce biologically active 1, 6-anhydro-muropeptides in large amounts by
enzymatic degradation of isolated bacterial murein polymer highly specific periplasmic …

Mutagenesis of Bordetella pertussis with transposon Tn5tac1: conditional expression of virulence-associated genes

BT Cookson, DE Berg, WE Goldman - Journal of bacteriology, 1990 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Tn5tac1 transposon contains a strong outward-facing promoter, Ptac, a lacI repressor
gene, and a selectable Kanr gene. Transcription from Ptac is repressed by the lacI protein …

Mini-review: bioactivities of bacterial cell envelopes in the central nervous system

WJ MacCain, EI Tuomanen - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
During acute bacterial meningitis, recognition of the bacterial envelope by immune cells of
the central nervous system (CNS) generates a robust response that is essential to clear …

Stereo-isomer specific induction of renal cell apoptosis by synthetic muramyl dipeptide lpar; N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine

MP Langford, D Chen, TC Welbourne… - Molecular and cellular …, 2002 - Springer
The cytotoxicity of bacterial cell wall components, muramyl dipeptide (synthetic N-
acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine; L, D-MDP) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), was …

Analysis of peptidoglycan fragment release

RE Schaub, JD Lenz, JP Dillard - Bacterial Cell Wall Homeostasis …, 2016 - Springer
Most bacteria break down a significant portion of their cell wall peptidoglycan during each
round of growth and cell division. This process generates peptidoglycan fragments of …