Identification of a novel peptidoglycan hydrolase CwlM in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1747, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-66

  Deng, Lingyi Lynn ^a   Humphries, Donald E ^a   Arbeit, Robert D ^a   Carlton, Laura E ^a   Smole, Sandra C ^a,b   Carroll, J David ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Autolysin; Cell wall; Cell wall hydrolase; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; N Acetylmuramic acid; N acetylmuramoyl L alanine amidase

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GENE PRODUCT; GLUTAMINE DERIVATIVE; HYDROLASE; MURAMIC ACID; N ACETYLMURAMIC ACID; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE DEXTRO ISOGLUTAMINE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN HYDROLASE; PROTEIN CWLM; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLMURAMYL-ALANYL-ISOGLUTAMINE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; IONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIC ACIDS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

EID: 12844257470     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2004.09.021     Document Type: Article

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