L-forms

Related pages

• Cell wall biosynthesis

Key publications

Romain Mercier, Yoshikazu Kawai, Jeff Errington
General principles for the formation and proliferation of a wall-free (L-form) state in bacteria.
Elife: 2014, 3;
[PubMed:25358088] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Romain Mercier, Yoshikazu Kawai, Jeff Errington
Excess membrane synthesis drives a primitive mode of cell proliferation.
Cell: 2013, 152(5);997-1007
[PubMed:23452849] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jeff Errington
L-form bacteria, cell walls and the origins of life.
Open Biol: 2013, 3(1);120143
[PubMed:23303308] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Romain Mercier, Patricia Domínguez-Cuevas, Jeff Errington
Crucial role for membrane fluidity in proliferation of primitive cells.
Cell Rep: 2012, 1(5);417-23
[PubMed:22832271] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Kevin M Devine
Bacterial L-forms on tap: an improved methodology to generate Bacillus subtilis L-forms heralds a new era of research.
Mol Microbiol: 2012, 83(1);10-3
[PubMed:22126136] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Patricia Domínguez-Cuevas, Romain Mercier, Mark Leaver, Yoshikazu Kawai, Jeff Errington
The rod to L-form transition of Bacillus subtilis is limited by a requirement for the protoplast to escape from the cell wall sacculus.
Mol Microbiol: 2012, 83(1);52-66
[PubMed:22122227] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Simone Dell'Era, Carmen Buchrieser, Elisabeth Couvé, Barbara Schnell, Yves Briers, Markus Schuppler, Martin J Loessner
Listeria monocytogenes L-forms respond to cell wall deficiency by modifying gene expression and the mode of division.
Mol Microbiol: 2009, 73(2);306-22
[PubMed:19555455] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

M Leaver, P Domínguez-Cuevas, J M Coxhead, R A Daniel, J Errington
Life without a wall or division machine in Bacillus subtilis.
Nature: 2009, 457(7231);849-53
[PubMed:19212404] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)