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ArticleArchives of microbiology2012

Localization of new peptidoglycan at poles in Bacillus mycoides, a member of the Bacillus cereus group.

Luana Turchi, Tiziana Santini, Elena Beccari, Carmen Di Franco

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Article in Archives of microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Luana TurchiDipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie C. Darwin, Università Sapienza, Roma, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. luana.turchi@uniroma1.it
Tiziana Santini
Elena Beccari
Carmen Di Franco
Sapienza University of Rome · ITInstitute of Molecular Biology and Pathology · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacillus mycoides is a sporogenic Gram-positive soil bacillus of the B. cereus group. This bacillus, which forms hyphal colonies, is composed of cells connected in filaments that make up bundles and turn clock- or counterclockwise depending on the strain. A thick peptidoglycan wall gives the rod cells of these bacilli strength and shape. One approach used to study peptidoglycan neoformation in Gram positives exploits the binding properties of antibiotics such as vancomycin and ramoplanin to nascent peptidoglycan, whose localization in the cell is monitored by means of a fluorescent tag. When we treated B. mycoides strains with BODIPY-vancomycin, we found the expected accumulation of fluorescence at the midcell septa and localization along the cell sidewall in small foci distributed quite uniformly. Intense fluorescence was also observed at the poles of many cells, more clearly visible at the outer edges of the cell chains. The unusual abundance of peptidoglycan intermediates at the cell poles after cell separation suggests that the construction process of this structure is different from that of B. subtilis, in which the free poles are rarely reactive to vancomycin.

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BacillusBacillus cereusCell WallPeptidoglycanStaining and LabelingVancomycinPeptidoglycanVancomycin

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PMID22773111
PMCPMC3445799
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