The ClpX chaperone controls autolytic splitting of Staphylococcus aureus daughter cells, but is bypassed by β-lactam antibiotics or inhibitors of WTA biosynthesis

• Camilla Jensen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Camilla Jensen, Kristoffer T. Bæk

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0500-1964

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• Kristoffer T. Bæk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Camilla Jensen, Kristoffer T. Bæk

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3243-3962

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• Clement Gallay,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6296-8928

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• Ida Thalsø-Madsen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9344-3967

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• Lijuan Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7763-3728

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• Ambre Jousselin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Bacterial Cell Biology, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7003-5426

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• Fernando Ruiz Torrubia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2171-6599

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• Wilhelm Paulander,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Ana R. Pereira,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Bacterial Cell Biology, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-815X

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• Jan-Willem Veening,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3162-6634

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• Mariana G. Pinho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Bacterial Cell Biology, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Dorte Frees

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

  * E-mail: df@sund.ku.dk

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4946-2890

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