The cell wall envelope of gram-positive bacteria is a macromolecular, exoskeletal organelle
that is assembled and turned over at designated sites. The cell wall also functions as a …

Horizontal gene transfer plays a major role in microbial evolution. However, newly acquired
sequences can decrease fitness unless integrated into preexisting regulatory networks. We …

Many surface proteins are thought to be anchored to the cell wall of Gram‐positive bacteria
via their C‐terminus. Cell wall anchoring requires a specific sorting signal, normally located …

Lateral gene transfer has played a prominent role in bacterial evolution, but the mechanisms
allowing bacteria to tolerate the acquisition of foreign DNA have been incompletely defined. …

Cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMP) represent a conserved and highly effective
component of innate immunity. During infection, the Gram‐negative pathogen Salmonella …

Analysis of the transcriptome of slyA mutant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium revealed
that many SlyA‐dependent genes, including pagC, pagD, ugtL, mig‐14, virK, phoN, pgtE…

Bacteriophage muralytic enzymes degrade the cell wall envelope of staphylococci to release
phage particles from the bacterial cytoplasm. Murein hydrolases of staphylococcal phages …

Bacterial nucleoid-associated proteins play important roles in chromosome organization
and global gene regulation. We find that Lsr2 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a unique …

H-NS and Lsr2 are nucleoid-associated proteins from Gram-negative bacteria and Mycobacteria,
respectively, that play an important role in the silencing of horizontally acquired foreign …

Microbe–macrophage interactions play a central role in the pathogenesis of many infections.
Several bacterial pathogens induce apoptosis specifically in macrophages, but the …