Published in J Bacteriol on December 01, 1980
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Effects of low penicillin concentrations on cell morphology and on peptidoglycan and protein synthesis in a tolerant Streptococcus strain. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1981) 0.83
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Symposium on the fine structure and replication of bacteria and their parts. IV. Unbalanced cell-wall synthesis: autolysis and cell-wall thickening. Bacteriol Rev (1965) 4.66
The role of autolysins in cell death. Ann N Y Acad Sci (1974) 2.99
Inhibition of peptidoglycan, ribonucleic acid, and protein synthesis in tolerant strains of Streptococcus mutans. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1980) 1.65
Three-dimensional reconstruction of whole cells of Streptococcus faecalis from thin sections of cells. J Bacteriol (1976) 1.47
Unit cell hypothesis for Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1980) 1.39
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Factors regulating cell wall thickening and intracellular iodophilic polysaccharide storage in Streptococcus mutans. Infect Immun (1977) 1.26
Conservation of cell wall peptidoglycan by strains of Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguis. Infect Immun (1980) 1.12
Electron microscopic study of cell surface rings during cell division and morphogenesis of Arthrobacter crystallopoietes. J Bacteriol (1977) 1.01
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Inhibition of bacterial wall lysins by lipoteichoic acids and related compounds. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (1975) 3.01
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Balanced macromolecular biosynthesis in "protoplasts" of Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1971) 2.77
Relationship between the latent form and the active form of the autolytic enzyme of Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1969) 2.63
A modification of the Park and Johnson reducing sugar determination suitable for the assay of insoluble materials: its application to bacterial cell walls. Anal Biochem (1968) 2.53
Inhibition of wall autolysis in Streptococcus faecalis by lipoteichoic acid and lipids. J Bacteriol (1976) 2.39
Site of initiation of cellular autolysis in Streptococcus faecalis as seen by electron microscopy. J Bacteriol (1970) 2.37
Modular design of the Enterococcus hirae muramidase-2 and Streptococcus faecalis autolysin. FEMS Microbiol Lett (1992) 2.33
Early changes in the ultrastructure of Streptococcus faecalis after amino acid starvation. J Bacteriol (1970) 2.32
Amino acid requirements of Streptococcus mutans and other oral streptococci. Infect Immun (1975) 2.31
Relationship between the location of autolysin, cell wall synthesis, and the development of resistance to cellular autolysis in Streptococcus faecalis after inhibition of protein synthesis. J Bacteriol (1970) 2.26
Influence of macromolecular biosynthesis on cellular autolysis in Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1972) 2.25
Study of cycle of cell wall assembly in Streptococcus faecalis by three-dimensional reconstructions of thin sections of cells. J Bacteriol (1976) 2.25
Autolytic enzyme system of Streptococcus faecalis. IV. Electron microscopic observations of autolysin and lysozyme action. J Bacteriol (1968) 2.20
A rapid, guantitative, and selective estimation of radioactively labeled peptidoglycan in gram-positive bacteria. Anal Biochem (1971) 2.16
Effect of inhibition of deoxyribonucleic acid and protein synthesis on the direction of cell wall growth in Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1974) 2.15
Ultrastructure of the cell walls of two closely related clostridia that possess different regular arrays of surface subunits. J Bacteriol (1976) 2.01
Effect of lipoteichoic acid and lipids on lysis of intact cells of Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1976) 1.99
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Soluble group- and type-specific antigens from type III group B Streptococcus. Infect Immun (1980) 1.98
Precursor-product relationship of intracellular and extracellular lipoteichoic acids of Streptococcus faecium. J Bacteriol (1979) 1.97
Some properties of two autolytic-defective mutants of Streptococcus faecalis ATCC 9790. J Bacteriol (1972) 1.91
Dissociation of an autolytic enzyme-cell wall complex by treatment with unusually high concentrations of salt. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (1970) 1.90
Structure, function, and assembly of cell walls of gram-positive bacteria. Annu Rev Microbiol (1983) 1.80
Morphological and physiological study of autolytic-defective Streptococcus faecium strains. J Bacteriol (1979) 1.72
Reinitiation of cell wall growth after threonine starvation of Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1971) 1.71
Purification and some properties of the endogenous, autolytic N-acetylmuramoylhydrolase of Streptococcus faecium, a bacterial glycoenzyme. J Biol Chem (1983) 1.69
Evidence that the N-terminal part of the S-layer protein from Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72/p2 recognizes a secondary cell wall polymer. J Bacteriol (1997) 1.68
Plastic deformation during freeze-cleavage: a review. J Microsc (1977) 1.67
Inhibition of peptidoglycan, ribonucleic acid, and protein synthesis in tolerant strains of Streptococcus mutans. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (1980) 1.65
Surface tension-like forces determine bacterial shapes: Streptococcus faecium. J Gen Microbiol (1981) 1.64
Structural and chemical characterization of S-layers of selected strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Desulfotomaculum nigrificans. Arch Microbiol (1986) 1.58
Some properties of the autolytic N-acetylmuramidase of Lactobacillus acidophilus. J Bacteriol (1973) 1.57
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Dynamics in oxygen-induced changes in S-layer protein synthesis from Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72 and the S-layer-deficient variant T5 in continuous culture and studies of the cell wall composition. J Bacteriol (1996) 1.47
Three-dimensional reconstruction of whole cells of Streptococcus faecalis from thin sections of cells. J Bacteriol (1976) 1.47
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Membrane-bound DD-carboxypeptidase and LD-transpeptidase of Streptococcus faecalis ATCC 9790. Eur J Biochem (1974) 1.45
Ultrastructure of the cell envelope of the archaebacteria Thermoproteus tenax and Thermoproteus neutrophilus. J Bacteriol (1986) 1.45
Morphokinetic reaction of Streptococcus faecalis (ATCC 9790) cells to the specific inhibition of macromolecular synthesis: nucleoid condensation on the inhibition of protein synthesis. J Bacteriol (1972) 1.44
Cellular autolytic activity in synchronized populations of Streptococcus faecium. J Bacteriol (1978) 1.43
Heterologous reattachment of regular arrays of glycoproteins on bacterial surfaces. Nature (1975) 1.41
Analysis of regular arrays of subunits on bacterial surfaces: evidence for a dynamic process of assembly. J Ultrastruct Res (1975) 1.40
Evidence for the synthesis of soluble peptidoglycan fragments by protoplasts of Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1975) 1.39
Studies of the formation of peptide cross-links in the cell wall peptidoglycan of Streptococcus faecalis. J Biol Chem (1975) 1.39
Unit cell hypothesis for Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1980) 1.39
Cloning and sequence analysis of the muramidase-2 gene from Enterococcus hirae. J Bacteriol (1992) 1.38
Functions of S-layers. FEMS Microbiol Rev (1997) 1.38
Structure, surface charge, and self-assembly of the S-layer lattice from Bacillus coagulans E38-66. J Bacteriol (1989) 1.38
Molecular sieving through S layers of Bacillus stearothermophilus strains. J Bacteriol (1987) 1.37
Chemical characterization of the regularly arranged surface layers of Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum and Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum. J Bacteriol (1976) 1.36
Autolytic formation of protoplasts (autoplasts) of Streptococcus faecalis 9790: release of cell wall, autolysin, and formation of stable autoplasts. J Bacteriol (1974) 1.35
Does penicillin kill bacteria?. Rev Infect Dis (1980) 1.35
The role of surface stress in the morphology of microbes. J Gen Microbiol (1982) 1.32
Measurement of intracellular iodophilic polysaccharide in two cariogenic strains of Streptococcus mutans by cytochemical and chemical methods. Infect Immun (1974) 1.32
Cellular lysis of Streptococcus faecalis induced with triton X-100. J Bacteriol (1978) 1.32
Characterization of the ultrastructure and the self-assembly of the surface layer of Bacillus stearothermophilus strain NRS 2004/3a. J Ultrastruct Mol Struct Res (1988) 1.31
Bacterial surface layer glycoproteins. Glycobiology (1991) 1.31
Structural arrangement of polymers within the wall of Streptococcus faecalis. J Bacteriol (1978) 1.31
Effect of ciliostatic factors from Pseudomonas aeruginosa on rabbit respiratory cilia. Infect Immun (1986) 1.30
Charge distribution on the S layer of Bacillus stearothermophilus NRS 1536/3c and importance of charged groups for morphogenesis and function. J Bacteriol (1987) 1.29
Two proposed general configurations for bacterial cell wall peptidoglycans shown by space-filling molecular models. Biopolymers (1974) 1.28
Structural and functional analyses of the secondary cell wall polymer of Bacillus sphaericus CCM 2177 that serves as an S-layer-specific anchor. J Bacteriol (1999) 1.28
Analysis of the role of prespore gene expression in the compartmentalization of mother cell-specific gene expression during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol (1996) 1.27
The S-layer from Bacillus stearothermophilus DSM 2358 functions as an adhesion site for a high-molecular-weight amylase. J Bacteriol (1995) 1.27
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