J Bacteriol. 2009 Sep;191(18):5859-64. Epub 2009 Jul 6.

Pneumococcal LytR, a protein from the LytR-CpsA-Psr family, is essential for normal septum formation in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

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Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, N-1432 As, Norway. ola.johnsborg@umb.no

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Proliferation of the human-pathogenic bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae is fundamentally linked to the bacterial proteins that function in cell division. Here, we show that LytR, a pneumococcal protein from the LytR-CpsA-Psr family, is essential to this process.

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