Identification of the potential active site of the septal peptidoglycan polymerase FtsW

• Ying Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Li, Adrien Boes

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Adrien Boes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Li, Adrien Boes

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: CER Groupe—Immunobiology Laboratory, Novalis Science Park, Aye, Belgium

  Affiliation InBioS-Centre d’Ingénierie des Protéines, Liège University, Liège, Belgium

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• Yuanyuan Cui,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Shan Zhao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Qingzhen Liao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Han Gong,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Eefjan Breukink,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7311-0660

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• Joe Lutkenhaus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8228-2114

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• Mohammed Terrak ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mterrak@uliege.be (MT); ssdu@whu.edu.cn (SD)

  Affiliation InBioS-Centre d’Ingénierie des Protéines, Liège University, Liège, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3837-6778

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• Shishen Du

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mterrak@uliege.be (MT); ssdu@whu.edu.cn (SD)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-8653

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