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The rigid cell wall that forms a protective layer around most bacterial cells is chiefly composed of peptidoglycan, a biopolymer unique to bacteria [ 1, 2].
In the latter lineage, it was exapted to function as an intracellular enzyme, probably due to the similarity in structure of GSP and the ancestral extracellular substrate, namely the peptidoglycan peptides.
The backbone of peptidoglycan consists of a chain of alternating N -acetylglucosamine (NAG) and N -acetylmuramate (NAM) units linked by a 1-4 glycosidic bond between the two hexoses.
Osteoblasts were incubated with various concentrations of major surface components of S. aureus , peptidoglycan and teichoic acid, as well as LPS of gram-negative bacteria to determine if these were potential inducers of TRAIL expression.
Our results demonstrate that peptidoglycan, teichoic acid, LPS, and the staphylococcal superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA), when present in the osteoblast extracellular environment, do not induce TRAIL expression (Fig.