Cloning and expression of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes murD genes encoding uridine diphosphate N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine:D-glutamate ligases

Gene

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 117-125

  El Sherbeini, Mohamed ^a   Geissler, Wayne M ^a   Pittman, Jamya ^a   Yuan, Xiling ^a   Wong, Kenny K ^a   Pompliano, David L ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell wall; Gram positive cocci; Peptidoglycan

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIGASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0032571589     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00059-6     Document Type: Article

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