Layered murein revisited: A fundamentally new concept of bacterial cell wall structure, biogenesis and function

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 173-181

  Dmitriev, Boris A ^a   Ehlers, Stefan ^a   Rietschel, Ernst Th ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; GLYCAN; IONOPHORE; LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CROSS LINKING; DNA TRANSFER; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LYSIS; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 0032460981     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300050090     Document Type: Article

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