Multimodular penicillin-binding proteins: An enigmatic family of orthologs and paralogs

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1079-1093

  Goffin, Colette ^a   Ghuysen, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCI;

EID: 0031736387     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.62.4.1079-1093.1998     Document Type: Article

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