Acd, a peptidoglycan hydrolase of Clostridium difficile with N-acetylglucosaminidase activity

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2343-2351

  Dhalluin, Anne ^a   Bourgeois, Ingrid ^a   Pestel Caron, Martine ^a   Camiade, Emilie ^a   Raux, Gregory ^b   Courtin, Pascal ^c   Chapot Chartier, Marie Pierre ^c   Pons, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; AUTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL EXTRACT; HYDROLASE; MURAMIC ACID; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL GROWTH; CHEMICAL BOND; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROLYSIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE 630; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 22144486914     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27878-0     Document Type: Article

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