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New Ways to Make Old Walls: Bacterial Surprises

Author(s) -

Kevin D. Young

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2010.12.011

Subject(s) - biology , escherichia coli , cell wall , bacterial cell structure , bacterial outer membrane , cell membrane , penicillin binding proteins , cell , microbiology and biotechnology , escherichia coli proteins , membrane , bacteria , biochemistry , biophysics , genetics , gene

Two papers in this issue of Cell (Paradis-Bleau et al., 2010 and Typas et al., 2010) report that the lipoproteins LpoA and LpoB are required for the synthesis of cell walls in Escherichia coli. Attached to the bacterial outer membrane, these new cell wall components regulate penicillin-binding proteins located at the inner membrane.

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