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SUBMITTER: Meeske AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5161649 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20160815 7622
Elongation of rod-shaped bacteria is mediated by a dynamic peptidoglycan-synthetizing machinery called the Rod complex. Here we report that, in Bacillus subtilis, this complex is functional in the absence of all known peptidoglycan polymerases. Cells lacking these enzymes survive by inducing an envelope stress response that increases the expression of RodA, a widely conserved core component of the Rod complex. RodA is a member of the SEDS (shape, elongation, division and sporulation) family of p ...[more]