Cloning, over-expression and purification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa murC encoding uridine diphosphate N-acetylmuramate: L-alanine ligase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 281-288

  El Zoeiby, Ahmed ^a   Sanschagrin, François ^a   Lamoureux, Josée ^b   Darveau, André ^b   Levesque, Roger C ^a  

^a Fac Med Pavillon Charles E   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell wall; murC; Peptidoglycan

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; LIGASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINANT PLASMID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0033981615     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00003-3     Document Type: Article

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