S treptococcus pneumoniae is an oval‐shaped G ram‐positive coccus that lives in intimate
association with its human host, both as a commensal and pathogen. The seriousness of …

Cell division in Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is performed and regulated by
a protein complex consisting of at least 14 different protein elements; known as the …

Dynamics of cell elongation and septation are key determinants of bacterial morphogenesis.
These processes are intimately linked to peptidoglycan synthesis performed by …

Streptococcus pneumoniae is an ovoid-shaped Gram-positive bacterium that grows by
carrying out peripheral and septal peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis, analogous to model bacilli …

Ovoid-shaped bacteria, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), have two
spatially separated peptidoglycan (PG) synthase nanomachines that locate zonally to the …

Bacterial cell shapes are manifestations of programs carried out by multi‐protein machines
that synthesize and remodel the resilient peptidoglycan (PG) mesh and other polymers …

Most bacterial cells are surrounded by a peptidoglycan cell wall that is essential for their
integrity. The major synthases of this exoskeleton are called penicillin-binding proteins …

Bacterial peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis requires strict spatiotemporal organization to
reproduce specific cell shapes. In ovoid‐shaped Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn), septal …

How bacteria control proper septum placement at midcell, to guarantee the generation of
identical daughter cells, is still largely unknown. Although different systems involved in the …

MreC and MreD, along with the actin homologue MreB, are required to maintain the shape
of rod-shaped bacteria. The depletion of MreCD in rod-shaped bacteria leads to the …