Cell wall degradation/ turnover

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Genes in this functional category

Endopeptidases

N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidases

Autolysis

Autolysis/ based on similarity

Degradation of wall teichoic acids

Utilization of cell wall components

Additional genes

Important Original Publications

Gaurav Misra, Enrique R Rojas, Ajay Gopinathan, Kerwyn Casey Huang
Mechanical consequences of cell-wall turnover in the elongation of a Gram-positive bacterium.
Biophys J: 2013, 104(11);2342-52
[PubMed:23746506] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Morgan Beeby, James C Gumbart, Benoît Roux, Grant J Jensen
Architecture and assembly of the Gram-positive cell wall.
Mol Microbiol: 2013, 88(4);664-72
[PubMed:23600697] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)


Important Reviews

Timothy K Lee, Kerwyn Casey Huang
The role of hydrolases in bacterial cell-wall growth.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2013, 16(6);760-6
[PubMed:24035761] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Timna J Wyckoff, Jennifer A Taylor, Nina R Salama
Beyond growth: novel functions for bacterial cell wall hydrolases.
Trends Microbiol: 2012, 20(11);540-7
[PubMed:22944244] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jan Reith, Christoph Mayer
Peptidoglycan turnover and recycling in Gram-positive bacteria.
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol: 2011, 92(1);1-11
[PubMed:21796380] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Sarah Dubrac, Paola Bisicchia, Kevin M Devine, Tarek Msadek
A matter of life and death: cell wall homeostasis and the WalKR (YycGF) essential signal transduction pathway.
Mol Microbiol: 2008, 70(6);1307-22
[PubMed:19019149] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Sarah Dubrac, Tarek Msadek
Tearing down the wall: peptidoglycan metabolism and the WalK/WalR (YycG/YycF) essential two-component system.
Adv Exp Med Biol: 2008, 631;214-28
[PubMed:18792692] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Waldemar Vollmer, Bernard Joris, Paulette Charlier, Simon Foster
Bacterial peptidoglycan (murein) hydrolases.
FEMS Microbiol Rev: 2008, 32(2);259-86
[PubMed:18266855] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Edie Scheurwater, Chris W Reid, Anthony J Clarke
Lytic transglycosylases: bacterial space-making autolysins.
Int J Biochem Cell Biol: 2008, 40(4);586-91
[PubMed:17468031] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Thomas J Smith, Steve A Blackman, Simon J Foster
Autolysins of Bacillus subtilis: multiple enzymes with multiple functions.
Microbiology (Reading): 2000, 146 ( Pt 2);249-262
[PubMed:10708363] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)


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