Tyrosine phosphorylation of CpsD negatively regulates capsular polysacchsaride biosynthesis in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1431-1442

  Morona, Judy K ^a   Paton, James C ^a   Miller, David C ^a   Morona, Renato ^b  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TYROSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0034020990     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01808.x     Document Type: Article

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