Figure 1

Schematic representation of peptidoglycan and of cleavage enzymes in S. pneumoniae . (a) Scheme of the pneumococcal peptidoglycan, indicating the chemical bonds cleaved by identified hydrolases in blue. The MurN Ac residue containing the 1, 6-anhydro bond resulting from LT reaction is in a green circle. The putative LT pneumococcal enzyme appears in red, while enzymes CBPD and PcsB for which no enzymatic specificity is yet characterized are in black. (b) Topological representation of the glycan strand hydrolases described in S. pneumoniae. Black and hatched boxes indicate the signal peptide and the transmembrane anchor, respectively. The blue boxes illustrate the respective enzymatic active domains. Purple rectangles correspond to the Choline-Binding repeats. Green and orange boxes correspond to SH3b and coiled-coil regions, respectively. The topology was designed with the help of SMART server [39].