A lytic transglycosylase homologue, PleA, is required for the assembly of pili and the flagellum at the Caulobacter crescentus cell pole

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 331-345

  Viollier, Patrick H ^a   Shapiro, Lucy ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN PLEA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; ION CHANNELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; NEOPLEA; PILA;

EID: 0037487270     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03576.x     Document Type: Article

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