Muramic lactam in peptidoglycan of Bacillus subtilis spores is required for spore outgrowth but not for spore dehydration or heat resistance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 26, 1996, Pages 15405-15410

  Popham, David L ^a   Helin, Jari ^b,c   Costello, Catherine E ^b   Setlow, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTAM; MURAMIC ACID; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; DEHYDRATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DESICCATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT; LACTAMS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIC ACIDS; MURAMIDASE; MUTAGENESIS; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTOPLASTS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0030463418     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.26.15405     Document Type: Article

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