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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Wall teichoic acids regulate peptidoglycan synthesis by paving cell wall nanostructure.

Felix Barber, Zarina Akbary, Zhe Yuan, Jacob Biboy, Waldemar Vollmer, Enrique R Rojas

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Felix BarberCenter for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York 10003, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1252-5181
Zarina AkbaryCenter for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York 10003, United States.
Zhe YuanCenter for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York 10003, United States.
Jacob BiboyCenter for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AX, United Kingdom.
Waldemar VollmerInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Enrique R RojasCenter for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York 10003, United States.

Funding

Exploring mechanical mechanisms of antibiotic resistanceR35GM143057 · NIGMS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI ROJAS, ENRIQUE · 2021 to 2025
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM143057
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bacterial cell wall is a polymeric exoskeleton, composed largely of peptidoglycan, that determines cell size and shape. Two systems synthesize peptidoglycan during the growth of rod-shaped bacteria, which are found pervasively across diverse bacterial taxa: the multi-protein Rod complexes are critical for cell shape because they synthesize anisotropic peptidoglycan oriented along the cell circumference

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Bacillus subtilisbacterial growthcell shapemorphogenesisRod complex

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PMID40463010
PMCPMC12132405

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