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Bacterial SPOR domains are recruited to septal peptidoglycan by binding to glycan strands that lack stem peptides.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Sept 2015
Yahashiri Atsushi, Jorgenson Matthew A, Weiss David S
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial SPOR domains bind peptidoglycan (PG) and are thought to target proteins to the cell division site by binding to "denuded" glycan strands that lack stem peptides, but uncertainties remain, in part because septal-specific binding has yet to be studied in a purified system. Here we show that fusions of GFP to SPOR domains from the Escherichia coli cell-division proteins DamX, DedD, FtsN, and RlpA all...
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