The two-component lysis system of Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage Twort: A large TTG-start holin and an associated amidase endolysin

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 265-274

  Loessner, Martin J ^a   Gaeng, Susanne ^a   Wendlinger, Günther ^a   Maier, Simon K ^a   Scherer, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amidase; Bacteriophage; Endolysin; Holin; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; LYSOSTAPHIN;

AMBER MUTANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CYTOLYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE TWORT;

EID: 0032525314     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00131-1     Document Type: Article

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