Figure 6.

Peptidoglycan degradation and recycling.

A. Overview of enzymes involved in peptidoglycan degradation.

B. Dendogram showing the presence of peptidoglycan degradation and recycling proteins encoded by selected bacterial genomes. The organism name is coloured according to peptidoglycan status: black, no peptidoglycan; red, intermediate or low‐level peptidoglycan; green, classical peptidoglycan sacculus; orange, peptidoglycan status unknown. The organisms are grouped according to the similarities in the presence/absence profiles for all proteins considered in this study (full list shown in Supporting Information Table S1) and the proteins are grouped according to their similarities across all organisms considered in this work. The presence of multiple orthologs is indicated by colouring according to the key.