Identification of a fmtA-like gene that has similarity to other PBPs and β-lactamases in Staphylococcus aureus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-39

  Komatsuzawa, Hitoshi ^a   Choi, Gil H ^a   Fujiwara, Tamaki ^a   Huang, Yan ^a   Ohta, Kouji ^a   Sugai, Motoyuki ^a   Suginaka, Hidekazu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell wall synthesis; flp; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL WALL; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MUTATION; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0034237229     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00194-4     Document Type: Article

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