title: Diversity of Firmicutes peptidoglycan hydrolases and specificities of those involved in daughter cell separation.
abstract: Within Streptococcus thermophilus, Cse was identified as the major cell disconnecting peptidoglycan hydrolase (PGH) and was demonstrated to be species-specific. To identify cell disconnecting PGHs encoded by other Streptococcus genomes, we explored the diversity of domains carried by Firmicutes PGHs, and especially that of enzymes involved in daughter cell separation. This work brings to light the diversity of PGHs and reveals that each species recruits its own cell-separating enzyme distinct from that of the others. This specificity is probably correlated with the diversity of substrates found in the bacterial cell wall.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique et Microbiologie, UMR INRA/UHP 1128, IFR 110, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Nancy-Université, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
authors.forename: Séverine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Layec
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Decaris
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Leblond-Bourget
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002455:Cell Division; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009238:N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine Amidase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D013045:Species Specificity; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D009238:N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine Amidase