Chemical reporters for bacterial glycans: development and applications

N Banahene, HW Kavunja, BM Swarts - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bacteria possess an extraordinary repertoire of cell envelope glycans that have critical
physiological functions. Pathogenic bacteria have glycans that are essential for growth and …

Cell wall hydrolases in bacteria: insight on the diversity of cell wall amidases, glycosidases and peptidases toward peptidoglycan

A Vermassen, S Leroy, R Talon, C Provot… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The cell wall (CW) of bacteria is an intricate arrangement of macromolecules, at least
constituted of peptidoglycan (PG) but also of (lipo) teichoic acids, various polysaccharides …

Prospects for antibacterial discovery and development

TM Privalsky, AM Soohoo, J Wang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The rising prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacteria is an urgent health crisis that can only
be countered through renewed investment in the discovery and development of antibiotics …

From the regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis to bacterial growth and morphology

A Typas, M Banzhaf, CA Gross… - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
How bacteria grow and divide while retaining a defined shape is a fundamental question in
microbiology, but technological advances are now driving a new understanding of how the …

Assembly of the mycobacterial cell wall

M Jankute, JAG Cox, J Harrison… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the most successful bacterial pathogens,
claiming over 1.3 million lives worldwide in 2013. The emergence of multidrug-resistant and …

The bacterial cell wall: from lipid II flipping to polymerization

S Kumar, A Mollo, D Kahne, N Ruiz - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall is an extra-cytoplasmic glycopeptide polymeric structure
that protects bacteria from osmotic lysis and determines cellular shape. Since the cell wall …

Cell wall structure and function in lactic acid bacteria

MP Chapot-Chartier, S Kulakauskas - Microbial cell factories, 2014 - Springer
The cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria is a complex assemblage of glycopolymers and
proteins. It consists of a thick peptidoglycan sacculus that surrounds the cytoplasmic …

Peptidoglycan structure and architecture

W Vollmer, D Blanot… - FEMS microbiology …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The peptidoglycan (murein) sacculus is a unique and essential structural element in the cell
wall of most bacteria. Made of glycan strands cross-linked by short peptides, the sacculus …

Remarkable potential of the α-aminophosphonate/phosphinate structural motif in medicinal chemistry

A Mucha, P Kafarski, Ł Berlicki - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
R-Aminophosphonic acids are broadly defined as analogues of amino acids in which the
carboxylic group is replaced by a phosphonic acid or related group (usually phosphonous or …

Mycobacterial cell wall biosynthesis: a multifaceted antibiotic target

KA Abrahams, GS Besra - Parasitology, 2018 - cambridge.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB), is recognized
as a global health emergency as promoted by the World Health Organization. Over 1 million …