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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2018

Discovery of genes required for lipoteichoic acid glycosylation predicts two distinct mechanisms for wall teichoic acid glycosylation.

Jeanine Rismondo, Matthew G Percy, Angelika Gründling

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jeanine RismondoFrom the Section of Microbiology and Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Matthew G PercyFrom the Section of Microbiology and Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Angelika GründlingFrom the Section of Microbiology and Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom a.grundling@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-6235-8687
Imperial College London · GB

Funding

European Research Council 260371Medical Research Council G0800777Medical Research Council MR/P028225/1Wellcome Trust 100289
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bacterial cell wall is an important and highly complex structure that is essential for bacterial growth because it protects bacteria from cell lysis and environmental insults. A typical Gram-positive bacterial cell wall is composed of peptidoglycan and the secondary cell wall polymers, wall teichoic acid (WTA) and lipoteichoic acid (LTA). In many Gram-positive bacteria, LTA is a polyglycerol-phosphate chain that is decorated with d-alanine and sugar residues. However, the function of and proteins responsible for the glycosylation of LTA are either unknown or not well-characterized. Here, using bioinformatics, genetic, and NMR spectroscopy approaches, we found that the

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Bacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsCell WallConserved SequenceGlycosylationLipopolysaccharidesListeria monocytogenesTeichoic AcidsBacterial ProteinsLipopolysaccharideslipoteichoic acidTeichoic AcidsBacillusbacterial glycobiologycell wallglycosylationglycosyltransferaseGram-positive bacterialipoteichoic acidStaphylococcus aureus (S. aureus)teichoic acidwall teichoic acid

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PMID29343515
PMCPMC5836110
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