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A switch in surface polymer biogenesis triggers growth-phase-dependent and antibiotic-induced bacteriolysis

Penicillin and related antibiotics disrupt cell wall synthesis to induce bacteriolysis. Lysis in response to these drugs requires the activity of cell wall hydrolases called autolysins, but how penicillins misactivate these deadly enzymes has long remained unclear. Here, we show that alterations in...

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Autores principales: Flores-Kim, Josué, Dobihal, Genevieve S, Fenton, Andrew, Rudner, David Z, Bernhardt, Thomas G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6456293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30964003
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.44912