The two-component cell lysis genes holWMY and lysWMY of the Staphylococcus warneri M phage φWMY: Cloning, sequencing, expression, and mutational analysis in Escherichia coli

Gene

Volumn 351, Issue , 2005, Pages 97-108

  Yokoi, Ken Ji ^a,b   Kawahigashi, Nobutaka ^a   Uchida, Maiko ^a   Sugahara, Kazuki ^a   Shinohara, Masayuki ^a   Kawasaki, Ken Ichi ^b   Nakamura, Shogo ^a   Taketo, Akira ^c   Kodaira, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b Toyama Prefectural Agricultural Forestry And Fisheries Research Center   (Japan)

^c FUKUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amidase; Endolysin; Holin; Staphylococcus warneri M

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; DEXTRO ALANYLGLYCINE ENDOPEPTIDASE; MITOMYCIN C; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DRUG EXPOSURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS WARNERI; VIRION; ZYMOGRAPHY;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PROPHAGES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGES; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

EID: 19544385942     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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