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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Conserved mechanism of cell-wall synthase regulation revealed by the identification of a new PBP activator in

Neil G Greene, Coralie Fumeaux, Thomas G Bernhardt

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A broadly conserved gram-positive lipoprotein regulates cell elongation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Peptidoglycan polymerase function and regulation.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025
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  14. Transposon insertion site sequencing (TIS) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2021
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  15. The LpoA activator is required to stimulate the peptidoglycan polymerase activity of its cognate cell wall synthase PBP1a.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Neil G GreeneDepartment of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Coralie FumeauxDepartment of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Thomas G BernhardtDepartment of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 thomas_bernhardt@hms.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Peptidoglycan Biogenesis in Escherichia ColiR01AI083365 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Thomas G Bernhardt · 2010 to 2026
$8.3M
Targeting cell separation systems of gram-negative bacteria.R33AI111713 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI BERNHARDT, THOMAS G · 2016 to 2018
$1.5M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI083365NIAID NIH HHS R33 AI111713Swiss National Science Foundation 171535
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) are synthases required to build the essential peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall surrounding most bacterial cells. The mechanisms regulating the activity of these enzymes to control PG synthesis remain surprisingly poorly defined given their status as key antibiotic targets. Several years ago, the outer-membrane lipoprotein

Indexed as

AcinetobacterBacterial ProteinsCell WallDNA Transposable ElementsEscherichia coliGene Expression Regulation, BacterialLipoproteinsMutationPenicillin-Binding ProteinsPhylogenyPseudomonas aeruginosaBacterial ProteinsDNA Transposable ElementsLipoproteinsPenicillin-Binding Proteinsantibioticcell wallPBPpenicillinpeptidoglycan

Identifiers

PMID29507210
PMCPMC5866570
OpenAlexW2790731933

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