Conserved cytoplasmic motifs that distinguish sub-groups of the polyprenol phosphate:N-acetylhexosamine-1-phosphate transferase family

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-175

  Anderson, Matt S ^b   Eveland, Suzanne S ^b   Price, Neil P J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

MraY; Sugar nucleotide; Tunicamycin; WbcO; WecA

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYPRENOL PHOSPHATE: N ACETYLHEXOSAMINE 1 PHOSPHATE TRANSFERASE; SUGAR NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GLYCOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS); URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE SUGARS;

EID: 0034668299     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00385-2     Document Type: Article

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