An embarrassment of sortases- A richness of substrates?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 97-101

  Pallen, Mark J ^a   Lam, Alex C ^a   Antonio, Martin ^a   Dunbar, Kerstin ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SORTASE LIKE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0035283403     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(01)01956-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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