Pneumococcal LytR, a protein from the LytR-CpsA-Psr family, is essential for normal septum formation in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

ABSTRACT: Proliferation of the human-pathogenic bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae is fundamentally linked to the bacterial proteins that function in cell division. Here, we show that LytR, a pneumococcal protein from the LytR-CpsA-Psr family, is essential to this process.

SUBMITTER: Johnsborg O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2737952 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature