ACC	7-amino-4 carbamoylmethylcoumarin
AM	Acetoxymethyl
BONCAT	Bio-orthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging
BODIPY	4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene
CuAAC	Copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition
Cy5	Cyanine 5
DAA	D-amino acid
DAP	mesodiaminopimelic acid
DDAO	7-hydroxy-9H-(1,3-dichloro-9,9-dimethylacridin-2-one)
Ddl	D-alanine-D-alanine ligase
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic acid
DMN	4-N,N-Dimethylamino-1,8-naphthalimide
FACS	Fluorescence-activated cell sorting
FDA	Federal drug administration
FDAA	Fluorescent D-Amino Acid
FDL	Fluorescein-D-Lysine
FRET	Fluorescence resonance energy transfer
GFP	Green fluorescent protein
HADA	HCC-amino-D-alanine
Hip1	Hydrolase important for pathogenesis 1
KDO	3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid
LPS	Lipopolysaccharide
MOA	Mode of action
Mtb	Mycobacterium tuberculosis
NADA	NBD-amino-D-alanine
NBD	7-Amino-4-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole
NTR	nitroreductase
OM	Outer membrane
Fph	Fluorophosphonate-binding hydrolase
PBP	Penicillin-binding proteins
pNA	p-nitroaniline
PET	Positron-emission tomography
PG	Peptidoglycan
SDS-PAGE	Sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
STORM	Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy
SuFEx	Sulfur fluoride exchange
TAMRA	Tetramethylrhodamine
TDL	TAMRA-d-lysine
VF-FL	Vibrioferrin-Fluorescein