Identification of three additional femAB-like open reading frames in Staphylococcus aureus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-102

  Tschierske, Martin ^a   Mori, Claudio ^a   Rohrer, Susanne ^a   Ehlert, Kerstin ^b   Shaw, Karen J ^c   Berger Bächi, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

FemX; Methicillin resistance; Pentaglycine interpeptide; Peptidoglycan; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GLYCINE; GLYCINE DERIVATIVE; LYSOSTAPHIN; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PROBES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEOGLYCANS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032966245     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00586-2     Document Type: Article

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