L-form bacteria, biotechnology and disease

Project Information

ELFBAD

Grant agreement ID: 670980

DOI 10.3030/670980

Project closed

EC signature date 14 September 2015

Start date 1 October 2015

End date 30 June 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 428 621,00

EU contribution € 2 428 621,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Antibiotic tolerance

Author(s): Lars F. Westblade, Jeff Errington, Tobias Dörr
Published in: PLOS Pathogens, Issue 16/10, 2020, Page(s) e1008892, ISSN 1553-7374
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008892

Lysozyme Counteracts β-Lactam Antibiotics by Promoting the Emergence of L-Form Bacteria

Author(s): Yoshikazu Kawai, Katarzyna Mickiewicz, Jeff Errington
Published in: Cell, Issue 172/5, 2018, Page(s) 1038-1049.e10, ISSN 0092-8674
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.01.021

RodA as the missing glycosyltransferase in Bacillus subtilis and antibiotic discovery for the peptidoglycan polymerase pathway

Author(s): Kaveh Emami, Aurelie Guyet, Yoshikazu Kawai, Jenny Devi, Ling J. Wu, Nick Allenby, Richard A. Daniel, Jeff Errington
Published in: Nature Microbiology, Issue 2, 2017, Page(s) 16253, ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.253

Cell wall-deficient, L-form bacteria in the 21st century: a personal perspective

Author(s): Jeff Errington
Published in: Biochemical Society Transactions, Issue 45/2, 2017, Page(s) 287-295, ISSN 0300-5127
Publisher: Portland Press, Ltd.
DOI: 10.1042/BST20160435

L-form bacteria, chronic diseases and the origins of life

Author(s): Jeff Errington, Katarzyna Mickiewicz, Yoshikazu Kawai, Ling Juan Wu
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 371/1707, 2016, Page(s) 20150494, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0494

Bacterial Membranes: Structure, Domains, and Function

Author(s): Henrik Strahl, Jeff Errington
Published in: Annual Review of Microbiology, Issue 71/1, 2017, Page(s) 519-538, ISSN 0066-4227
Publisher: Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-102215-095630

Wall proficient E. coli capable of sustained growth in the absence of the Z-ring division machine

Author(s): Romain Mercier, Yoshikazu Kawai, Jeff Errington
Published in: Nature Microbiology, Issue 1/8, 2016, Page(s) 16091, ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.91

Possible role of L-form switching in recurrent urinary tract infection

Author(s): Katarzyna M. Mickiewicz, Yoshikazu Kawai, Lauren Drage, Margarida C. Gomes, Frances Davison, Robert Pickard, Judith Hall, Serge Mostowy, Phillip D. Aldridge, Jeff Errington
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, Page(s) All, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12359-3

Crucial role for central carbon metabolism in the bacterial L-form switch and killing by β-lactam antibiotics

Author(s): Yoshikazu Kawai, Romain Mercier, Katarzyna Mickiewicz, Agnese Serafini, Luiz Pedro Sório de Carvalho, Jeff Errington
Published in: Nature Microbiology, Issue 4/10, 2019, Page(s) 1716-1726, ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0497-3

Cell Wall Deficiency as a Coping Strategy for Stress

Author(s): Dennis Claessen, Jeff Errington
Published in: Trends in Microbiology, Issue 27/12, 2019, Page(s) 1025-1033, ISSN 0966-842X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2019.07.008

Microbe Profile: Bacillus subtilis: model organism for cellular development, and industrial workhorse

Author(s): Jeffery Errington, Lizah T van der Aart
Published in: Microbiology, 2020, ISSN 1350-0872
Publisher: Society for General Microbiology
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000922

Geometric principles underlying the proliferation of a model cell system

Author(s): Ling Juan Wu, Seoungjun Lee, Sungshic Park, Lucy E. Eland, Anil Wipat, Séamus Holden, Jeff Errington
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, Page(s) 11, 4149, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17988-7