%0 Journal Article %T Building Walls: Work That Never Ends. %A Botella H %A Vaubourgeix J %J Trends Microbiol %V 27 %N 1 %D 01 2019 %M 30497920 %F 18.23 %R 10.1016/j.tim.2018.11.006 %X Fluorescent amino acid analogs have proven to be useful tools for studying the dynamics of peptidoglycan metabolism. GarcĂ­a-Heredia and colleagues showed that their route of incorporation differs depending on the adjunct fluorophore and applied this property to investigate mycobacterial peptidoglycan synthesis and remodeling with heightened granularity.