Cloning, characterization, and inactivation of the gene pbpC, encoding penicillin-binding protein 3 of Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1074-1079

  Pinho, Mariana G ^a,b   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,b   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPORATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0033959682     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.4.1074-1079.2000     Document Type: Article

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