Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx

Substrate-induced inactivation of the Escherichia coli AmiD N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase highlights a new strategy to inhibit this class of enzyme. (2009)

Pennartz, Anne, Genereux, Catherine, Parquet, Claudine, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Joris, Bernard

In the eubacterial cell, the peptidoglycan is perpetually hydrolyzed throughout the cell cycle by different enzymes such as lytic transglycosylases, endopeptidases, and amidases. In Escherichia coli,...

Identification of the L,D-transpeptidases responsible for attachment of the Braun lipoprotein to Escherichia coli peptidoglycan. (2007)

Magnet, Sophie, Bellais, Samuel, Dubost, Lionel, Fourgeaud, Martine, Mainardi, Jean-Luc, Petit-Frère, Sébastien, ...

The L,D-transpeptidase Ldt(fm) catalyzes peptidoglycan cross-linking in beta-lactam-resistant mutant strains of Enterococcus faecium. Here, we show that in Escherichia coli Ldt(fm) homologues are...

Identification of the L,D-transpeptidases responsible for attachment of the Braun lipoprotein to Escherichia coli peptidoglycan. (2007)

Magnet, Sophie, Bellais, Samuel, Dubost, Lionel, Fourgeaud, Martine, Mainardi, Jean-Luc, Petit-Frère, Sébastien, ...

The L,D-transpeptidase Ldt(fm) catalyzes peptidoglycan cross-linking in beta-lactam-resistant mutant strains of Enterococcus faecium. Here, we show that in Escherichia coli Ldt(fm) homologues are...

Identification of the L,D-transpeptidases responsible for attachment of the Braun lipoprotein to Escherichia coli peptidoglycan. (2007)

Magnet, Sophie, Bellais, Samuel, Dubost, Lionel, Fourgeaud, Martine, Mainardi, Jean-Luc, Petit-Frère, Sébastien, ...

The L,D-transpeptidase Ldt(fm) catalyzes peptidoglycan cross-linking in beta-lactam-resistant mutant strains of Enterococcus faecium. Here, we show that in Escherichia coli Ldt(fm) homologues are...

Role of AmiA in the Morphological Transition of Helicobacter pylori and in Immune Escape (2006)

Catherine Chaput, Chantal Ecobichon, Nadège Cayet, Stephen E. Girardin, Catherine Werts, Stéphanie Guadagnini, ...

The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is responsible for peptic ulcers and neoplasia. Both in vitro and in the human stomach it can be found in two forms, the bacillary and coccoid forms....

Glycosyl transferase activity of the Escherichia coli penicillin-binding protein 1b: Specificity profile for the substrate (2006)

Fraipont, Claudine, Sapunaric, Frédéric, Zervosen, Astrid, Auger, Geneviève, Devreese, Bart, Lioux, Thierry, ...

The glycosyl transferase of the Escherichia coli bifunctional penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 1b catalyzes the assembly of lipid-transported...

Role of AmiA in the morphological transition of Helicobacter pylori and in immune escape. (2006)

Chaput, Catherine, Ecobichon, Chantal, Cayet, Nadège, Girardin, Stephen E, Werts, Catherine, Guadagnini, Stéphanie, ...

The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is responsible for peptic ulcers and neoplasia. Both in vitro and in the human stomach it can be found in two forms, the bacillary and coccoid forms....

Role of AmiA in the morphological transition of Helicobacter pylori and in immune escape. (2006)

Chaput, Catherine, Ecobichon, Chantal, Cayet, Nadège, Girardin, Stephen E, Werts, Catherine, Guadagnini, Stéphanie, ...

The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is responsible for peptic ulcers and neoplasia. Both in vitro and in the human stomach it can be found in two forms, the bacillary and coccoid forms....

Role of AmiA in the morphological transition of Helicobacter pylori and in immune escape. (2006)

Chaput, Catherine, Ecobichon, Chantal, Cayet, Nadège, Girardin, Stephen E, Werts, Catherine, Guadagnini, Stéphanie, ...

The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is responsible for peptic ulcers and neoplasia. Both in vitro and in the human stomach it can be found in two forms, the bacillary and coccoid forms....

A Drosophila Pattern Recognition Receptor Contains a Peptidoglycan Docking Groove and Unusual L,D-Carboxypeptidase Activity (2004)

Chung-I Chang, Sébastien Pili-Floury, Mireille Hervé, Claudine Parquet, Yogarany Chelliah, Bruno Lemaitre, ...

The Drosophila protein PGRP-SA is found to have an intrinsic activity to cleave L,D-configured peptide bonds, which exist only in prokaryotes. This work reveals a rare enzymatic activity in a...

A Drosophila Pattern Recognition Receptor Contains a Peptidoglycan Docking Groove and Unusual L,D-Carboxypeptidase Activity (2004)

Chung-I Chang, Sébastien Pili-Floury, Mireille Hervé, Claudine Parquet, Yogarany Chelliah, Bruno Lemaitre, ...

The Drosophila peptidoglycan recognition protein SA (PGRP-SA) is critically involved in sensing bacterial infection and activating the Toll signaling pathway, which induces the expression of specific...

Autophosphorylation of Phosphoglucosamine Mutase from Escherichia coli

Jolly, Laure, Pompeo, Frédérique, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Fassy, Florence, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique

Phosphoglucosamine mutase (GlmM) catalyzes the formation of glucosamine-1-phosphate from glucosamine-6-phosphate, an essential step in the pathway for UDP-N-acetylglucosamine biosynthesis in...

Identification of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa glmM Gene, Encoding Phosphoglucosamine Mutase

Tavares, Isabel M., Jolly, Laure, Pompeo, Frédérique, Leitão, Jorge H., Fialho, Arsénio M., Sá-Correia, Isabel, ...

A search for a potential algC homologue within the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 genome database has revealed an open reading frame (ORF) of unknown function, ORF540 in contig 54 (July 1999 Pseudomonas...

Identification of the UDP-MurNAc-Pentapeptide:l-Alanine Ligase for Synthesis of Branched Peptidoglycan Precursors in Enterococcus faecalis

Bouhss, Ahmed, Josseaume, Nathalie, Allanic, David, Crouvoisier, Muriel, Gutmann, Laurent, Mainardi, Jean-Luc, ...

Many species of gram-positive bacteria produce branched peptidoglycan precursors resulting from the transfer of various l-amino acids or glycine from amino acyl-tRNA to the ɛ-amino group of...

Expression of the Staphylococcus aureus UDP-N-Acetylmuramoyl- l-Alanyl-d-Glutamate:l-Lysine Ligase in Escherichia coli and Effects on Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis and Cell Growth

Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Falla, Tim, Blanot, Didier, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Adams, David J., Chopra, Ian

The monomer units in the Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus cell wall peptidoglycans differ in the nature of the third amino acid in the l-alanyl-γ-d-glutamyl-X-d-alanyl-d-alanine side...

MppA, a Periplasmic Binding Protein Essential for Import of the Bacterial Cell Wall Peptide l-Alanyl-γ-d-Glutamyl-meso-Diaminopimelate

Park, James T., Raychaudhuri, Debabrata, Li, Hongshan, Normark, Staffan, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique

Mutants of a diaminopimelic acid (Dap)-requiring strain of Escherichia coli were isolated which failed to grow on media in which Dap was replaced by the cell wall murein tripeptide,...

Contribution of the Pmra Promoter to Expression of Genes in the Escherichia coli mra Cluster of Cell Envelope Biosynthesis and Cell Division Genes

Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Ayala, Juan, Bouhss, Ahmed, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Parquet, Claudine, Hara, Hiroshi

Recently, a promoter for the essential gene ftsI, which encodes penicillin-binding protein 3 of Escherichia coli, was precisely localized 1.9 kb upstream from this gene, at the beginning of the mra...

Probing the Role of Cysteine Residues in Glucosamine-1-Phosphate Acetyltransferase Activity of the Bifunctional GlmU Protein from Escherichia coli: Site-Directed Mutagenesis and Characterization of the Mutant Enzymes

Pompeo, Frédérique, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique

The glucosamine-1-phosphate acetyltransferase activity but not the uridyltransferase activity of the bifunctional GlmU enzyme from Escherichia coli was lost when GlmU was stored in the absence of...

Functional and Biochemical Analysis of Chlamydia trachomatis MurC, an Enzyme Displaying UDP-N-Acetylmuramate:Amino Acid Ligase Activity

Hesse, Lars, Bostock, Julieanne, Dementin, Sebastien, Blanot, Didier, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Chopra, Ian

Chlamydiae are unusual obligate intracellular bacteria that cause serious infections in humans. Chlamydiae contain genes that appear to encode products with peptidoglycan biosynthetic activity. The...

Role of Class A Penicillin-Binding Proteins in PBP5-Mediated β-Lactam Resistance in Enterococcus faecalis

Arbeloa, Ana, Segal, Heidi, Hugonnet, Jean-Emmanuel, Josseaume, Nathalie, Dubost, Lionnel, Brouard, Jean-Paul, ...

Peptidoglycan polymerization complexes contain multimodular penicillin-binding proteins (PBP) of classes A and B that associate a conserved C-terminal transpeptidase module to an N-terminal...

Fluorescence Detection-Based Functional Assay for High-Throughput Screening for MraY

Stachyra, Thérèse, Dini, Christophe, Ferrari, Paul, Bouhss, Ahmed, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, ...

We have developed a novel assay specific to MraY, which catalyzes the first membrane step in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan. This was accomplished by using...

A Drosophila Pattern Recognition Receptor Contains a Peptidoglycan Docking Groove and Unusual L,D-Carboxypeptidase Activity

Chang, Chung-I, Pili-Floury, Sébastien, Hervé, Mireille, Parquet, Claudine, Chelliah, Yogarany, Lemaitre, Bruno, ...

The Drosophila peptidoglycan recognition protein SA (PGRP-SA) is critically involved in sensing bacterial infection and activating the Toll signaling pathway, which induces the expression of specific...

Structure of the ectodomain of Drosophila peptidoglycan-recognition protein LCa suggests a molecular mechanism for pattern recognition

Chang, Chung-I, Ihara, Kentaro, Chelliah, Yogarany, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Wakatsuki, Soichi, Deisenhofer, Johann

The peptidoglycan-recognition protein LCa (PGRP-LCa) is a transmembrane receptor required for activation of the Drosophila immune deficiency pathway by monomeric Gram-negative peptidoglycan. We have...

Role of AmiA in the Morphological Transition of Helicobacter pylori and in Immune Escape

Chaput, Catherine, Ecobichon, Chantal, Cayet, Nadège, Girardin, Stephen E, Werts, Catherine, Guadagnini, Stéphanie, ...

The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is responsible for peptic ulcers and neoplasia. Both in vitro and in the human stomach it can be found in two forms, the bacillary and coccoid forms....

Murine Nod1 but not its human orthologue mediates innate immune detection of tracheal cytotoxin

Magalhaes, Joao Gamelas, Philpott, Dana J, Nahori, Marie-Anne, Jéhanno, Muguette, Fritz, Joerg, Bourhis, Lionel Le, ...

Tracheal cytotoxin (TCT) was originally described as the minimal effector that was able to reproduce the cytotoxic response of Bordetella pertussis on ciliated epithelial cells. This molecule...

Autophosphorylation of Phosphoglucosamine Mutase from Escherichia coli

Jolly, Laure, Pompeo, Frédérique, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Fassy, Florence, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique

Phosphoglucosamine mutase (GlmM) catalyzes the formation of glucosamine-1-phosphate from glucosamine-6-phosphate, an essential step in the pathway for UDP-N-acetylglucosamine biosynthesis in...

Identification of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa glmM Gene, Encoding Phosphoglucosamine Mutase

Tavares, Isabel M., Jolly, Laure, Pompeo, Frédérique, Leitão, Jorge H., Fialho, Arsénio M., Sá-Correia, Isabel, ...

A search for a potential algC homologue within the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 genome database has revealed an open reading frame (ORF) of unknown function, ORF540 in contig 54 (July 1999 Pseudomonas...

Identification of the UDP-MurNAc-Pentapeptide:l-Alanine Ligase for Synthesis of Branched Peptidoglycan Precursors in Enterococcus faecalis

Bouhss, Ahmed, Josseaume, Nathalie, Allanic, David, Crouvoisier, Muriel, Gutmann, Laurent, Mainardi, Jean-Luc, ...

Many species of gram-positive bacteria produce branched peptidoglycan precursors resulting from the transfer of various l-amino acids or glycine from amino acyl-tRNA to the ɛ-amino group of...

Expression of the Staphylococcus aureus UDP-N-Acetylmuramoyl- l-Alanyl-d-Glutamate:l-Lysine Ligase in Escherichia coli and Effects on Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis and Cell Growth

Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Falla, Tim, Blanot, Didier, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Adams, David J., Chopra, Ian

The monomer units in the Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus cell wall peptidoglycans differ in the nature of the third amino acid in the l-alanyl-γ-d-glutamyl-X-d-alanyl-d-alanine side...

MppA, a Periplasmic Binding Protein Essential for Import of the Bacterial Cell Wall Peptide l-Alanyl-γ-d-Glutamyl-meso-Diaminopimelate

Park, James T., Raychaudhuri, Debabrata, Li, Hongshan, Normark, Staffan, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique

Mutants of a diaminopimelic acid (Dap)-requiring strain of Escherichia coli were isolated which failed to grow on media in which Dap was replaced by the cell wall murein tripeptide,...

Contribution of the Pmra Promoter to Expression of Genes in the Escherichia coli mra Cluster of Cell Envelope Biosynthesis and Cell Division Genes

Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Ayala, Juan, Bouhss, Ahmed, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Parquet, Claudine, Hara, Hiroshi

Recently, a promoter for the essential gene ftsI, which encodes penicillin-binding protein 3 of Escherichia coli, was precisely localized 1.9 kb upstream from this gene, at the beginning of the mra...

Probing the Role of Cysteine Residues in Glucosamine-1-Phosphate Acetyltransferase Activity of the Bifunctional GlmU Protein from Escherichia coli: Site-Directed Mutagenesis and Characterization of the Mutant Enzymes

Pompeo, Frédérique, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique

The glucosamine-1-phosphate acetyltransferase activity but not the uridyltransferase activity of the bifunctional GlmU enzyme from Escherichia coli was lost when GlmU was stored in the absence of...

Functional and Biochemical Analysis of Chlamydia trachomatis MurC, an Enzyme Displaying UDP-N-Acetylmuramate:Amino Acid Ligase Activity

Hesse, Lars, Bostock, Julieanne, Dementin, Sebastien, Blanot, Didier, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Chopra, Ian

Chlamydiae are unusual obligate intracellular bacteria that cause serious infections in humans. Chlamydiae contain genes that appear to encode products with peptidoglycan biosynthetic activity. The...

Role of Class A Penicillin-Binding Proteins in PBP5-Mediated β-Lactam Resistance in Enterococcus faecalis

Arbeloa, Ana, Segal, Heidi, Hugonnet, Jean-Emmanuel, Josseaume, Nathalie, Dubost, Lionnel, Brouard, Jean-Paul, ...

Peptidoglycan polymerization complexes contain multimodular penicillin-binding proteins (PBP) of classes A and B that associate a conserved C-terminal transpeptidase module to an N-terminal...

Fluorescence Detection-Based Functional Assay for High-Throughput Screening for MraY

Stachyra, Thérèse, Dini, Christophe, Ferrari, Paul, Bouhss, Ahmed, Van Heijenoort, Jean, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, ...

We have developed a novel assay specific to MraY, which catalyzes the first membrane step in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan. This was accomplished by using...

A Drosophila Pattern Recognition Receptor Contains a Peptidoglycan Docking Groove and Unusual L,D-Carboxypeptidase Activity

Chang, Chung-I, Pili-Floury, Sébastien, Hervé, Mireille, Parquet, Claudine, Chelliah, Yogarany, Lemaitre, Bruno, ...

The Drosophila peptidoglycan recognition protein SA (PGRP-SA) is critically involved in sensing bacterial infection and activating the Toll signaling pathway, which induces the expression of specific...

Structure of the ectodomain of Drosophila peptidoglycan-recognition protein LCa suggests a molecular mechanism for pattern recognition

Chang, Chung-I, Ihara, Kentaro, Chelliah, Yogarany, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Wakatsuki, Soichi, Deisenhofer, Johann

The peptidoglycan-recognition protein LCa (PGRP-LCa) is a transmembrane receptor required for activation of the Drosophila immune deficiency pathway by monomeric Gram-negative peptidoglycan. We have...

Murine Nod1 but not its human orthologue mediates innate immune detection of tracheal cytotoxin

Magalhaes, Joao Gamelas, Philpott, Dana J, Nahori, Marie-Anne, Jéhanno, Muguette, Fritz, Joerg, Bourhis, Lionel Le, ...

Tracheal cytotoxin (TCT) was originally described as the minimal effector that was able to reproduce the cytotoxic response of Bordetella pertussis on ciliated epithelial cells. This molecule...

Role of AmiA in the Morphological Transition of Helicobacter pylori and in Immune Escape

Chaput, Catherine, Ecobichon, Chantal, Cayet, Nadège, Girardin, Stephen E, Werts, Catherine, Guadagnini, Stéphanie, ...

The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is responsible for peptic ulcers and neoplasia. Both in vitro and in the human stomach it can be found in two forms, the bacillary and coccoid forms....

Identification of the l,d-Transpeptidases Responsible for Attachment of the Braun Lipoprotein to Escherichia coli Peptidoglycan▿

Magnet, Sophie, Bellais, Samuel, Dubost, Lionel, Fourgeaud, Martine, Mainardi, Jean-Luc, Petit-Frère, Sébastien, ...

The l,d-transpeptidase Ldtfm catalyzes peptidoglycan cross-linking in β-lactam-resistant mutant strains of Enterococcus faecium. Here, we show that in Escherichia coli Ldtfm homologues are...

Biochemical Characterization and Physiological Properties of Escherichia coli UDP-N-Acetylmuramate:l-Alanyl-γ-d-Glutamyl-meso- Diaminopimelate Ligase▿

Hervé, Mireille, Boniface, Audrey, Gobec, Stanislav, Blanot, Didier, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique

The UDP-N-acetylmuramate:l-alanyl-γ-d-glutamyl-meso-diaminopimelate ligase (murein peptide ligase [Mpl]) is known to be a recycling enzyme allowing reincorporation into peptidoglycan (murein) of the...

The essential peptidoglycan glycosyltransferase MurG forms a complex with proteins involved in lateral envelope growth as well as with proteins involved in cell division in Escherichia coli

Mohammadi, Tamimount, Karczmarek, Aneta, Crouvoisier, Muriel, Bouhss, Ahmed, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Den Blaauwen, Tanneke

In Escherichia coli many enzymes including MurG are directly involved in the synthesis and assembly of peptidoglycan. MurG is an essential glycosyltransferase catalysing the last intracellular step...

Periplasmic phosphorylation of lipid A is linked to the synthesis of undecaprenyl phosphate

Touzé, Thierry, Tran, An X, Hankins, Jessica V, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Trent, M Stephen

One-third of the lipid A found in the Escherichia coli outer membrane contains an unsubstituted diphosphate unit at position 1 (lipid A 1-diphosphate). We now report an inner membrane enzyme, LpxT...

Purification and Characterization of the Bacterial UDP-GlcNAc:Undecaprenyl-Phosphate GlcNAc-1-Phosphate Transferase WecA▿

Al-Dabbagh, Bayan, Mengin-Lecreulx, Dominique, Bouhss, Ahmed

To date, the structural and functional characterization of proteins belonging to the polyprenyl-phosphate N-acetylhexosamine-1-phosphate transferase superfamily has been relentlessly held back by...