Bacteria possess an extraordinary repertoire of cell envelope glycans that have critical
physiological functions. Pathogenic bacteria have glycans that are essential for growth and …

Peptidoglycan, an essential component within the cell walls of virtually all bacteria, is
composed of glycan strands linked by stem peptides that contain D‐amino acids. The …

Highlights•Recently developed innovative methods for analysis of peptidoglycan are
outlined.•New tools enable high throughput, in vivo and single-cell peptidoglycan …

A method of choice to study the spatio-temporal dynamics of bacterial cell growth and
division is to analyze the localization of cell wall synthesis regions by fluorescence …

Bacteria constitute a major lifeform on this planet and play numerous roles in ecology,
physiology, and human disease. However, conventional methods to probe their activities are …

Gram-positive bacteria assemble a multilayered cell wall that provides tensile strength to the
cell. The cell wall is composed of glycan strands cross-linked by nonribosomally synthesized …

One of the major challenges in imaging bacterial infection using Positron Emission
Tomography (PET) is the insufficiency of fluorine-18 labeled probes. Several carbon-11 D …

Despite the antibiotics currently on the market, we observe, these past years, an increase of
deaths due to bacterial infections. The main cause of this increase is the development of …