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SUBMITTER: Nega M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7679415 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Communications biology 20201120 1
After bacterial cell division, the daughter cells are still covalently interlinked by the peptidoglycan network which is resolved by specific hydrolases (autolysins) to release the daughter cells. In staphylococci, the major autolysin (Atl) with its two domain enzymes, N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidase (AmiA) and β-N-acetylglucosaminidase (GlcA), resolves the peptidoglycan to release the daughter cells. Internal deletions in each of the enzyme domains revealed defined morphological alterations s ...[more]