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Movement dynamics of divisome proteins and PBP2x: FtsW in cells of Streptococcus pneumoniae by Perez, Amilcar J., Cesbron, Yann, Shaw, Sidney L., Villicana, Jesus Bazan, Tsui, Ho-Ching T., Boersma, Michael J., Ye, Ziyun A., Tovpeko, Yanina, Dekker, Cees, Holden, Seamus, Winkler, Malcolm E.

“…Bacterial cell division and peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis are orchestrated by the coordinated dynamic movement of essential protein complexes. Recent studies…”
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Organization of peptidoglycan synthesis in nodes and separate rings at different stages of cell division of Streptococcus pneumoniae by Perez, Amilcar J., Boersma, Michael J., Bruce, Kevin E., Lamanna, Melissa M., Shaw, Sidney L., Tsui, Ho‐Ching T., Taguchi, Atsushi, Carlson, Erin E., VanNieuwenhze, Michael S., Winkler, Malcolm E.

“…Bacterial peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis requires strict spatiotemporal organization to reproduce specific cell shapes. In ovoid‐shaped Streptococcus pneumoniae…”
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Minimal Peptidoglycan (PG) Turnover in Wild-Type and PG Hydrolase and Cell Division Mutants of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 Growing Planktonically and in Host-Relevant Biofilms by Boersma, Michael J, Kuru, Erkin, Rittichier, Jonathan T, VanNieuwenhze, Michael S, Brun, Yves V, Winkler, Malcolm E

“…We determined whether there is turnover of the peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall of the ovococcus bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus)…”
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Suppression and synthetic-lethal genetic relationships of [Delta]gpsB mutations indicate that GpsB mediates protein phosphorylation and penicillin-binding protein interactions in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 by Rued, Britta E, Zheng, Jiaqi J, Mura, Andrea, Tsui, Ho-Ching T, Boersma, Michael J, Mazny, Jeffrey L, Corona, Federico, Perez, Amilcar J, Fadda, Daniela, Doubravova, Linda, Buriankova, Karolína, Branny, Pavel, Massidda, Orietta, Winkler, Malcolm E

“…Summary GpsB regulatory protein and StkP protein kinase have been proposed as molecular switches that balance septal and peripheral (side-wall like)…”
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Suppression and synthetic‐lethal genetic relationships of ΔgpsB mutations indicate that GpsB mediates protein phosphorylation and penicillin‐binding protein interactions in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 by Rued, Britta E., Zheng, Jiaqi J., Mura, Andrea, Tsui, Ho‐Ching T., Boersma, Michael J., Mazny, Jeffrey L., Corona, Federico, Perez, Amilcar J., Fadda, Daniela, Doubravová, Linda, Buriánková, Karolína, Branny, Pavel, Massidda, Orietta, Winkler, Malcolm E.

“…Summary GpsB regulatory protein and StkP protein kinase have been proposed as molecular switches that balance septal and peripheral (side‐wall like)…”
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Pbp2x localizes separately from Pbp2b and other peptidoglycan synthesis proteins during later stages of cell division of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 by Tsui, Ho‐Ching T., Boersma, Michael J., Vella, Stephen A., Kocaoglu, Ozden, Kuru, Erkin, Peceny, Julia K., Carlson, Erin E., VanNieuwenhze, Michael S., Brun, Yves V., Shaw, Sidney L., Winkler, Malcolm E.

“…Summary The relative localization patterns of class B penicillin‐binding proteins Pbp2x and Pbp2b were used as positional indicators of septal and peripheral…”
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Novel Electrophilic Scaffold for Imaging of Essential Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Streptococcus pneumoniae by Sharifzadeh, Shabnam, Boersma, Michael J, Kocaoglu, Ozden, Shokri, Alireza, Brown, Clayton L, Shirley, Joshua D, Winkler, Malcolm E, Carlson, Erin E

“…Peptidoglycan (PG) is a mesh-like heteropolymer made up of glycan chains cross-linked by short peptides and is the major scaffold of eubacterial cell walls,…”
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Suppression and synthetic‐lethal genetic relationships of Δ gps B mutations indicate that G ps B mediates protein phosphorylation and penicillin‐binding protein interactions in S treptococcus pneumoniae D 39 by Rued, Britta E., Zheng, Jiaqi J., Mura, Andrea, Tsui, Ho‐Ching T., Boersma, Michael J., Mazny, Jeffrey L., Corona, Federico, Perez, Amilcar J., Fadda, Daniela, Doubravová, Linda, Buriánková, Karolína, Branny, Pavel, Massidda, Orietta, Winkler, Malcolm E.

“…GpsB regulatory protein and StkP protein kinase have been proposed as molecular switches that balance septal and peripheral (side‐wall like) peptidoglycan (PG)…”
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Pbp2x localizes separately from Pbp2b and other peptidoglycan synthesis proteins during later stages of cell division of S treptococcus pneumoniae   D 39 by Tsui, Ho‐Ching T., Boersma, Michael J., Vella, Stephen A., Kocaoglu, Ozden, Kuru, Erkin, Peceny, Julia K., Carlson, Erin E., VanNieuwenhze, Michael S., Brun, Yves V., Shaw, Sidney L., Winkler, Malcolm E.

“…The relative localization patterns of class B penicillin‐binding proteins Pbp2x and Pbp2b were used as positional indicators of septal and peripheral…”
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