Sortase: The surface protein anchoring transpeptidase and the LPXTG motif

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 148-151

  Novick, Richard P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0034177478     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(00)01741-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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