Mechanistic Insights into the Activities of Major Families of Enzymes in Bacterial Peptidoglycan Assembly and Breakdown
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DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202200693
Abstract: Serving as an exoskeletal scaffold, peptidoglycan is a polymeric macromolecule that is essential and conserved across all bacteria, yet is absent in mammalian cells; this has made bacterial peptidoglycan a well‐established excellent antibiotic target. In… read more here.
Keywords: activities major; bacterial peptidoglycan; assembly breakdown; peptidoglycan assembly ... See more keywords
Recent progress in our understanding of peptidoglycan assembly in Firmicutes.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2021.01.011
Abstract: Years of intense research have shown that the assembly of peptidoglycan, the extracellular mesh-like polymer surrounding the bacterial cell, is incredibly complex. It requires a suite of reactions catalyzed by dynamic macromolecular protein complexes whose… read more here.
Keywords: understanding peptidoglycan; assembly firmicutes; progress understanding; microbiology ... See more keywords