The biology of Gram-positive sortase enzymes

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 89-95

  Paterson, Gavin K ^a   Mitchell, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; CYSTEINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; IRON; LEUCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROLINE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; SORTASE; SORTASEA; SORTASEB; SORTASEC; SORTASED; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL ADHESION; CELL MATURATION; DENTAL CARIES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROPHOBICITY; IRON TRANSPORT; KIDNEY ABSCESS; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0842281609     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2003.12.007     Document Type: Review

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