Recent Publications on Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic Acid: |  |
Isolation of temperature-sensitive mutations in murC of Staphylococcus aureus.
Enzymes in the bacterial peptidoglycan biosynthesis pathway are important...
Direct Link | 11th July, 2008
| Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo,
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Staphylococcus aureus MurC participates in L-alanine recognition via histidine 343, a conserved motif in the shallow hydrophobic pocket.
UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid:L-alanine ligase that is encoded by the murC...
Direct Link | 24th June, 2008
| Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
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Characterization of tRNA-dependent peptide bond formation by MurM in the synthesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae peptidoglycan.
MurM is an aminoacyl ligase that adds l-serine or l-alanine as the first...
Direct Link | 31st May, 2008
| Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, University of Warwick,
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Elucidation of the antimicrobial mechanism of mutacin 1140.
Mutacin 1140 and nisin A are peptide antibiotics that belong to the...
Direct Link | 29th May, 2008
| Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University,
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An Arabidopsis homolog of the bacterial peptidoglycan synthesis enzyme MurE has an essential role in chloroplast development.
Enzymes encoded by bacterial MurE genes catalyze the ATP-dependent...
Direct Link | 20th May, 2008
| Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto
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The biosynthesis of peptidoglycan lipid-linked intermediates.
The biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan is a complex process...
Direct Link | 16th May, 2008
| Laboratoire des Enveloppes Bacteriennes et Antibiotiques, Institut de
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Molecular mechanism of target recognition by subtilin, a class I lanthionine antibiotic.
The increasing resistance of human pathogens to conventional antibiotics...
Direct Link | 30th April, 2008
| School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7
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| Optimization of UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid synthesis.
| 24th April, 2008
| Drug Discovery Department, Lek Pharmaceuticals, Verovikova 57, 1526
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Expanding role of lipid II as a target for lantibiotics.
Lipid II is an essential cell-wall precursor required for the growth and...
Direct Link | 6th December, 2007
| Utrecht University, Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology,
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Adenosine phosphonate inhibitors of lipid II: alanyl tRNA ligase MurM from Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Adenosine and 2'-deoxyadenosine phosphonate transition state analogues act...
Direct Link | 6th December, 2007
| Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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Transmembrane transport of peptidoglycan precursors across model and bacterial membranes.
Translocation of the peptidoglycan precursor Lipid II across the...
Direct Link | 6th December, 2007
| Department Biochemistry of Membranes, Bijvoet Centre, Utrecht University,
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The tubulin homologue FtsZ contributes to cell elongation by guiding cell wall precursor synthesis in Caulobacter crescentus.
The tubulin homologue FtsZ is well known for its essential function in...
Direct Link | 6th December, 2007
| Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and
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Cell wall growth during elongation and division: one ring to bind them?
The role of the cell division protein FtsZ in bacterial cell wall (CW)...
Direct Link | 6th December, 2007
| Molecular Microbiology, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, Vrije
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Synthesis of bicyclic alkene-/alkane-bridged nisin mimics by ring-closing metathesis and their biochemical evaluation as lipid II binders: toward the design of potential novel antibiotics.
This report describes the design, synthesis, and biochemical evaluation of...
Direct Link | 30th October, 2007
| Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Utrecht Institute for
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Cell envelope stress induced by the bacteriocin Lcn972 is sensed by the Lactococcal two-component system CesSR.
The non-pore-forming bacteriocin lactococcin 972 (Lcn972) inhibits the...
Direct Link | 31st May, 2007
| Instituto de Productos Lacteos de Asturias, IPLA-CSIC. Apdo. 85. 33300
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