Conveners
AUSE Plenary IV
- INÉS MUÑOZ FERNÁNDEZ (CNIO)
Juan A. Hermoso
(Dept. Crystallography & Structural Biology. Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain)
06/09/2022, 15:00
Keynote
The bacterial cell wall is an essential gigantic macromolecule that defines the shape of the bacterium and enables the bacterium to resist lysis as a result of its high intracellular osmotic pressure. The main component of cell wall is peptidoglycan (PG) that consists of repeating linear polymers of N-acetylglucosamine (NAG) and N-acetylmuramic acid (NAM) linked together via short oligopeptide...
