Breaking free: "Protein antibiotics" and phage lysis

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 493-501

  Bernhardt, Thomas G ^a   Wang, Ing Nang ^b   Struck, Douglas K ^b   Young, Ry ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Cell wall; Lysis; Peptidoglycan; Phage

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL WALL; ENVIRONMENT; LYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CELL WALL; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0036035524     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(02)01330-X     Document Type: Short Survey

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