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Sep 2026
Essential roles of lytic transglycosylases in l,d-transpeptidase-mediated peptidoglycan cross-linking in Escherichia coli
It is proposed that MltG and MltD specifically alleviate defects in peptidoglycan cross-linking by eliminating toxic peptidoglycan intermediates that potentially accumulate in the inner and outer side of the peptidoglycan layer of bacterial cells overproducing YcbB, respectively.
Constantin Anoyatis-Pelé, Mathilde Benadjaoud, Michel Arthur et al.
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