Occurrence and identification of UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-pentapeptide from the cyanobacterium Anabaena cylindrica

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 321-325

  Kodani, Shinya ^a   Ishida, Keishi ^a   Murakami, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterium; Peptidoglycan; UDP N acetylmuramyl pentapeptide

Indexed keywords

MURAMYL PEPTIDE; PENTAPEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA CYLINDRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ANABAENA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

ANABAENA CYLINDRICA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032988622     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00251-7     Document Type: Article

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