The pneumococcal cell wall degrading enzymes: A modular design to create new lysins?

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-211

  López, Rubens ^a   García, Ernesto ^a   García, Pedro ^a   Garcîa, Josê Luis ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; AMINO ACID; AMINOALCOHOL; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CHOLINE; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; ENZYME; GLUCOSAMINIDASE; HYDROLASE; LYSOZYME; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; TEICHOIC ACID;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIOPHAGE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PNEUMOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0030989690     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1997.3.199     Document Type: Article

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