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Fraction of peptidoglycan that is turned-over in each generation

Value	50 %
Organism	bacteria
Reference	Reith J, Mayer C. Peptidoglycan turnover and recycling in Gram-positive bacteria. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2011 Jul 28 1st page right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID21796380
Primary Source	Rogers HJ. The structure and biosynthesis of the components of the cell walls of gram-positive bacteria. Folia Microbiol (Praha). 1967 12(3):191-200 AND Mauck J, Chan L, Glaser L. Turnover of the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria. J Biol Chem. 1971 Mar 25 246(6):1820-7 AND Boothby D, Daneo-Moore L, Higgins ML, Coyette J, Shockman GD. Turnover of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycans. J Biol Chem. 1973 Mar 25 248(6):2161-9 AND Doyle RJ, Chaloupka J, Vinter V. Turnover of cell walls in microorganisms. Microbiol Rev. 1988 Dec52(4):554-67.PubMed ID4860439, 4993960, 4632249, 3070324
Method	Pulse-chase experiments with radioactively labeled cell wall precursors such as DAP, N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) or D-glutamic acid
Comments	The Gram positive species listed in keywords (and the Gram negative N. gonorrhoea) were studied
Entered by	Uri M
ID	106718