Cell wall structural divergence amongThermusspp.

Structural Cell Wall Proteins.

Structural Divergence in Dialogue

It is often observed that people tend to match each others body movements, speech style, and patterns of language use during conversation (Giles Coupland and Coupland, 1991). Recently, it has been proposed that ‘structural priming’ should be added to this list (Pickering and Ferreira, 2008). Structural priming occurs when processing of a linguistic structure is facilitated by prior exposure to ...

Structural divergence of plant TCTPs

The Translationally Controlled Tumor Protein (TCTP) is a highly conserved protein at the level of sequence, considered to play an essential role in the regulation of growth and development in eukaryotes. However, this function has been inferred from studies in a few model systems, such as mice and mammalian cell lines, Drosophila and Arabidopsis. Thus, the knowledge regarding this protein is fa...

The biochemistry and structural biology of plant cell wall deconstruction.

Structural Basis of Cell Wall Cleavage by a Staphylococcal Autolysin

The major autolysins (Atl) of Staphylococcus epidermidis and S. aureus play an important role in cell separation, and their mutants are also attenuated in virulence. Therefore, autolysins represent a promising target for the development of new types of antibiotics. Here, we report the high-resolution structure of the catalytically active amidase domain AmiE (amidase S. epidermidis) from the maj...