{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Lebar MD"],"funding":["NIAID NIH HHS","NIGMS NIH HHS"],"pagination":["10874-7"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4132960"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["136(31)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The peptidoglycan precursor, Lipid II, produced in the model Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis differs from Lipid II found in Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli by a single amidation on the peptide side chain. How this difference affects the cross-linking activity of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) that assemble peptidoglycan in cells has not been investigated because B. subtilis Lipid II was not previously available. Here we report the synthesis of B. subtilis Lipid II and its use by purified B. subtilis PBP1 and E. coli PBP1A. While enzymes from both organisms assembled B. subtilis Lipid II into glycan strands, only the B. subtilis enzyme cross-linked the strands. Furthermore, B. subtilis PBP1 catalyzed the exchange of both D-amino acids and D-amino carboxamides into nascent peptidoglycan, but the E. coli enzyme only exchanged D-amino acids. We exploited these observations to design a fluorescent D-amino carboxamide probe to label B. subtilis PG in vivo and found that this probe labels the cell wall dramatically better than existing reagents."],"journal":["Journal of the American Chemical Society"],"pubmed_title":["Reconstitution of peptidoglycan cross-linking leads to improved fluorescent probes of cell wall synthesis."],"pmcid":["PMC4132960"],"funding_grant_id":["R01 GM066174","R01 GM073831","T32 GM007598","R01 GM076710","F32 GM103056","U19 AI109764","R01 GM18568","R01 GM018568"],"pubmed_authors":["Rudner DZ","Lupoli TJ","Losick R","Meeske AJ","Walker S","Lebar MD","Leiman SA","Kahne D","May JM","Tsukamoto H"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Reconstitution of peptidoglycan cross-linking leads to improved fluorescent probes of cell wall synthesis.","description":"The peptidoglycan precursor, Lipid II, produced in the model Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis differs from Lipid II found in Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli by a single amidation on the peptide side chain. How this difference affects the cross-linking activity of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) that assemble peptidoglycan in cells has not been investigated because B. subtilis Lipid II was not previously available. Here we report the synthesis of B. subtilis Lipid II and its use by purified B. subtilis PBP1 and E. coli PBP1A. While enzymes from both organisms assembled B. subtilis Lipid II into glycan strands, only the B. subtilis enzyme cross-linked the strands. Furthermore, B. subtilis PBP1 catalyzed the exchange of both D-amino acids and D-amino carboxamides into nascent peptidoglycan, but the E. coli enzyme only exchanged D-amino acids. We exploited these observations to design a fluorescent D-amino carboxamide probe to label B. subtilis PG in vivo and found that this probe labels the cell wall dramatically better than existing reagents.","dates":{"release":"2014-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2014 Aug","modification":"2022-02-09T10:33:11.945Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:34:03Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4132960","cross_references":{"pubmed":["25036369"],"doi":["10.1021/ja505668f"]}}