The molecular characterization of the first autolytic lysozyme of Streptococcus pneumoniae reveals evolutionary mobile domains

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 128-138

  García, Pedro ^a   González, María Paz ^a   García, Ernesto ^a   García, José Luis ^a   López, Rubens ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; LYSOZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FRACTIONATION; EVOLUTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATALYSIS; CELL WALL; CHOLINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; IMMUNE SERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIDASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 17444442315     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01455.x     Document Type: Article

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