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Cell wall synthesis is intimately linked to the determination of cell shape. The proteins involved in both functions interact in the cell wall biosynthetic complex.

Genes in this functional category

Biosynthesis of peptidoglycan

Autolytic activity required for peptidoglycan synthesis (cell elongation)

Biosynthesis of lipoteichoic acid

Biosynthesis of teichoic acid

Biosynthesis of teichuronic acid

Penicillin-binding proteins

Export of anionic polymers and attachment to peptidoglycan

Biosynthesis of the carrier lipid undecaprenylphosphate

Important Original Publications

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)

Siyuan Wang, Leon Furchtgott, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Joshua W Shaevitz
Helical insertion of peptidoglycan produces chiral ordering of the bacterial cell wall.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2012, 109(10);E595-604
[PubMed:22343529] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

N V Potekhina, G M Streshinskaya, E M Tul'skaya, Yu I Kozlova, S N Senchenkova, A S Shashkov
Phosphate-containing cell wall polymers of bacilli.
Biochemistry (Mosc): 2011, 76(7);745-54
[PubMed:21999535] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ethan C Garner, Remi Bernard, Wenqin Wang, Xiaowei Zhuang, David Z Rudner, Tim Mitchison
Coupled, circumferential motions of the cell wall synthesis machinery and MreB filaments in B. subtilis.
Science: 2011, 333(6039);222-5
[PubMed:21636745] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Julia Domínguez-Escobar, Arnaud Chastanet, Alvaro H Crevenna, Vincent Fromion, Roland Wedlich-Söldner, Rut Carballido-López
Processive movement of MreB-associated cell wall biosynthetic complexes in bacteria.
Science: 2011, 333(6039);225-8
[PubMed:21636744] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)


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