How to build a bacterial cell: MreB as the foreman of E. coli construction

H Shi, BP Bratton, Z Gitai, KC Huang - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cell shape matters across the kingdoms of life, and cells have the remarkable capacity to
define and maintain specific shapes and sizes. But how are the shapes of micron-sized cells …

Bacteriocins and their position in the next wave of conventional antibiotics

VL Cavera, TD Arthur, D Kashtanov… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Micro-organisms are capable of producing a range of defence mechanisms, including
antibiotics, bacteriocins, lytic agents, protein exotoxins, etc. Such mechanisms have been …

[HTML][HTML] Beta-lactam antibiotics induce a lethal malfunctioning of the bacterial cell wall synthesis machinery

H Cho, T Uehara, TG Bernhardt - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Penicillin and related beta-lactams comprise one of our oldest and most widely used
antibiotic therapies. These drugs have long been known to target enzymes called penicillin …

Bacterial cell wall biogenesis is mediated by SEDS and PBP polymerase families functioning semi-autonomously

H Cho, CN Wivagg, M Kapoor, Z Barry, PDA Rohs… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Multi-protein complexes organized by cytoskeletal proteins are essential for cell wall
biogenesis in most bacteria. Current models of the wall assembly mechanism assume that …

[图书][B] Practical handbook of microbiology

LH Green, E Goldman - 2021 - books.google.com
Practical Handbook of Microbiology, 4th edition provides basic, clear and concise
knowledge and practical information about working with microorganisms. Useful to anyone …

Class-A penicillin binding proteins do not contribute to cell shape but repair cell-wall defects

A Vigouroux, B Cordier, A Aristov, L Alvarez… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
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 …

Defining the rate-limiting processes of bacterial cytokinesis

C Coltharp, J Buss, TM Plumer… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Bacterial cytokinesis is accomplished by the essential 'divisome'machinery. The most widely
conserved divisome component, FtsZ, is a tubulin homolog that polymerizes into the 'FtsZ …

Response of Escherichia coli growth rate to osmotic shock

E Rojas, JA Theriot, KC Huang - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
It has long been proposed that turgor pressure plays an essential role during bacterial
growth by driving mechanical expansion of the cell wall. This hypothesis is based on …

A two-track model for the spatiotemporal coordination of bacterial septal cell wall synthesis revealed by single-molecule imaging of FtsW

X Yang, R McQuillen, Z Lyu, P Phillips-Mason… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Synthesis of septal peptidoglycan (sPG) is crucial for bacterial cell division. FtsW, an
indispensable component of the cell division machinery in all walled bacterial species, was …

Movement dynamics of divisome proteins and PBP2x:FtsW in cells of Streptococcus pneumoniae

AJ Perez, Y Cesbron, SL Shaw… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Bacterial cell division and peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis are orchestrated by the coordinated
dynamic movement of essential protein complexes. Recent studies show that bidirectional …