The peptidoglycan layers of many gram-positive bacteria are densely functionalized with
anionic glycopolymers known as wall teichoic acids (WTAs). These polymers play crucial …

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

In order to maintain shape and withstand intracellular pressure, most bacteria are
surrounded by a cell wall that consists mainly of the cross-linked polymer peptidoglycan …

Staphylococci and most other Gram-positive bacteria incorporate complex teichoic acid (TA)
polymers into their cell envelopes. Several crucial roles in Staphylococcus aureus fitness …

An extensive literature has established that the synthesis of wall teichoic acid in Bacillus
subtilis is essential for cell viability. Paradoxically, we have recently shown that wall teichoic …

An extensive study of teichoic acid biosynthesis in the model organism Bacillus subtilis has
established teichoic acid polymers as essential components of the gram-positive cell wall …

Wall teichoic acids are a major and integral component of the Gram-positive cell wall. These
structures are present across all species of Gram-positive bacteria and constitute roughly …

Wall teichoic acid (WTA) glycopolymers are major constituents of cell envelopes in
Staphylococcus aureus and related Gram-positive bacteria with important roles in cell wall …

Resistance to every family of clinically used antibiotics has emerged, and there is a pressing
need to explore unique antibacterial targets. Wall teichoic acids (WTAs) are anionic …

Although the bacterial cell wall has been the subject of decades of investigation, recent
studies continue to generate novel and controversial models of its synthesis and assembly …