Characterization of AcmB, an N-acetylglucosaminidase autolysin from Lactococcus lactis

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 695-705

  Huard, Carine ^a,c   Miranda, Guy ^a   Wessner, Françoise ^a   Bolotin, Alexander ^a   Hansen, Jonathan ^b   Foster, Simon J ^b   Chapot Chartier, Marie Pierre ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ASPARAGINE; AUTOLYSIN; HYDROLASE; LYSOZYME; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN HYDROLASE; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROLYSIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOLYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037350314     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25875-0     Document Type: Review

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