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- noun
peptidoglycan ,mucopeptide
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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We reason that this is because the early effects of the antibiotic as it perturbs the biosynthesis of the cell wall, can be compensated for by the thick layer of murein or peptidoglycan typically found in most Gram-positive bacteria.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ting-Ting Liu et al. 2009
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Bateman A, Bycroft M (2000) The structure of a LysM domain from E. coli membrane-bound lytic murein transglycosylase D (MltD).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Avital Tidhar et al. 2009
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Bernhardt TG, de Boer PA (2004) Screening for synthetic lethal mutants in Escherichia coli and identification of EnvC (YibP) as a periplasmic septal ring factor with murein hydrolase activity.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Avital Tidhar et al. 2009
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A previous report described construction of a UAMS-1 alsSD mutant (KB1097) and concluded that mutation of alsSD eliminated acetoin production and resulted in reduced murein hydrolase activity and reduced stationary phase survival
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Laura H. Tsang et al. 2008
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A previous report described construction of a UAMS-1 alsSD mutant (KB1097) and concluded that mutation of alsSD eliminated acetoin production and resulted in reduced murein hydrolase activity and reduced stationary phase survival
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A previous report described construction of a UAMS-1 alsSD mutant (KB1097) and concluded that mutation of alsSD eliminated acetoin production and resulted in reduced murein hydrolase activity and reduced stationary phase survival
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