VanX, a bacterial D-alanyl-D-alanine dipeptidase: Resistance, immunity, or survival function?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 11028-11032

  Lessard, Ivan A D ^a   Walsh, Christopher T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DEXTRO ALANINE; DIPEPTIDASE; DIPEPTIDE; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LACTIC ACID; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PERMEASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS LINKING; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES TOYOCAENSIS;

EID: 0033613122     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.20.11028     Document Type: Article

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