Cell wall structural divergence among Thermus spp.

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-229

  Quintela, José Carlos ^a   Zöllner, Peter ^b   García del Portillo, Francisco ^a   Allmaier, Günter ^b   De Pedro, Miguel A ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Mass spectrometry; Murein; Peptidoglycan; Thermus

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCULUS; THERMUS; THERMUS AQUATICUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THERMUS;

THERMUS; THERMUS AQUATICUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0345435057     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00021-X     Document Type: Article

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