Streptococcus pneumoniae, the pneumococcus, is a major human pathogen causing over a million deaths each year. Many pneumococcal strains display resistance towards antibiotics causing world-wide health concern. Some of these antibiotics are antimicrobial peptides (AMP), which are produced as a primary defense by hosts as well as pathogens. The pneumococcus harbors a system comprised of an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter and a two-component system (TCS) composed of a histidine kinase (HK) and a response regulator (RR), which targets these molecules. It has been shown recently that the removal of this ABC transporter increases the sensitivity of the bacteria towards bacitracin. In this project, we tried to understand the functioning me...