Building blocks and blueprints for bacterial autolysins.

Bacteria utilize a wide variety of endogenous cell wall hydrolases, or autolysins, to remodel their cell walls during processes including cell division, biofilm formation, and programmed death. We here systematically investigate the composition of these enzymes in order to gain insights into their a...

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Main Authors: Spencer J Mitchell, Deeptak Verma, Karl E Griswold, Chris Bailey-Kellogg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008889