Structure of subtilosin A, an antimicrobial peptide from Bacillus subtilis with unusual posttranslational modifications linking cysteine sulfurs to α-carbons of phenylalanine and threonine

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4726-4727

  Kawulka, Karen ^a   Sprules, Tara ^a   McKay, Ryan T ^a   Mercier, Pascal ^a   Diaper, Christopher M ^a   Zuber, Peter ^b   Vederas, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBON; CYSTEINE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHENYLALANINE; SUBTILOSIN A; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; CYSTEINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; THREONINE;

EID: 0037462081     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja029654t     Document Type: Article

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