Towards a comprehensive view of the bacterial cell wall
| Autor: | Boris A. Dmitriev, Filip V. Toukach, Stefan Ehlers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
Scaffold Cell division Bacteria Cell Morphogenesis Structural component Computational biology Peptidoglycan Biology Bacterial Physiological Phenomena Microbiology Models Biological Bacterial cell structure Cell wall Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Cell Wall Virology medicine |
| Zdroj: | Trends in microbiology. 13(12) |
| ISSN: | 0966-842X |
| Popis: | Direct in vivo visualization, in full atomic detail, of the microbial cell wall and its stress-bearing structural architecture remains one of the prime challenges in microbiology. In the meantime, molecular modeling can provide a framework for explaining and predicting mechanisms involved in morphogenesis, bacterial cell growth and cell division, during which the wall and its major structural component – murein – have to protect the cell from osmotic pressure and multiple tensile forces. Here, we illustrate why the scaffold concept of murein architecture provides a more comprehensive representation of bacterial cell wall physiology than previous models. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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