Teichoic acids (TAs) are major wall and membrane components of most gram-positive
bacteria. With few exceptions, they are polymers of glycerol-phosphate or ribitol-phosphate …

Abstract Abstract| Most Gram-positive bacteria incorporate membrane-or peptidoglycan-
attached carbohydrate-based polymers into their cell envelopes. Such cell-wall …

Bacterial surface polysaccharides are synthesized from lipid-linked precursors at the inner
surface of the cytoplasmic membrane before being translocated across the bilayer for …

The cell wall of lactic acid bacteria has the typical Gram-positive structure made of a thick,
multilayered peptidoglycan sacculus decorated with proteins, teichoic acids and …

The hasA gene from Streptococcus equisimilis, which encodes the enzyme hyaluronan
synthase, has been expressed in Bacillus subtilis, resulting in the production of hyaluronic …

The multidrug/oligosaccharidyl‐lipid/polysaccharide (MOP) exporter superfamily (TC# 2. A.
66) consists of four previously recognized families:(a) the ubiquitous multi‐drug and toxin …

Low-molecular-weight hyaluronan (LMW-HA) has attracted much attention because of its
many potential applications. Here, we efficiently produced specific LMW-HAs from sucrose …

In Bacillus subtilis, the competence transcription factor ComK activates its own transcription
as well as the transcription of genes that encode DNA transport proteins. ComK is expressed …

Tyrosine phosphorylation is a key device in numerous cellular functions in eukaryotes, but in
bacteria this protein modification was largely ignored until the mid-1990s. The first …

The ability to recover components of their own cell wall is a common feature of bacteria. This
was initially recognized in the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli, which recycles …