Most bacteria are surrounded by a peptidoglycan cell wall that defines their shape and
protects them from osmotic lysis. The expansion and division of this structure therefore plays …

Single-celled organisms must adapt their physiology to persist and propagate across a wide
range of environmental conditions. The growth and division of bacterial cells depend on …

The primary structural component of the bacterial cell wall is peptidoglycan, which is
essential for viability and the synthesis of which is the target for crucial antibiotics …

The bacterial division apparatus catalyses the synthesis and remodelling of septal
peptidoglycan (sPG) to build the cell wall layer that fortifies the daughter cell poles …

Peptidoglycan is a defining feature of the bacterial cell wall. Initially identified as a target of
the revolutionary beta-lactam antibiotics, peptidoglycan has become a subject of much …

Cell shape and cell-envelope integrity of bacteria are determined by the peptidoglycan cell
wall. In rod-shaped Escherichia coli, two conserved sets of machinery are essential for cell …

How bacteria link their growth rate to external nutrient conditions is unknown. To investigate
how Bacillus subtilis cells alter the rate at which they expand their cell walls as they grow …

Bacteria have evolved to develop multiple strategies for antibiotic resistance by effectively
reducing intracellular antibiotic concentrations or antibiotic binding affinities, but the role of …

The bacterial enzymes FtsW and FtsI, encoded in the highly conserved dcw gene cluster,
are considered to be universally essential for the synthesis of septal peptidoglycan (PG) …

During bacterial cell division, filaments of tubulin-like FtsZ form the Z-ring, which is the
cytoplasmic scaffold for divisome assembly. In Escherichia coli, the actin homologue FtsA …