Wide variation in the cyanobacterial complement of presumptive penicillin-binding proteins

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 234-248

  Leganés, Francisco ^a   Blanco Rivero, Amaya ^a,c   Fernández Piñas, Francisca ^a   Redondo, Miguel ^a,d   Fernández Valiente, Eduardo ^a   Fan, Qing ^b,e   Lechno Yossef, Sigal ^b   Wolk, C Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell differentiation; Cell shape; Cyanobacteria; Fox genes; Heterocysts; Penicillin binding protein; Peptidoglycan

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEINASE;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ELONGATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN VARIANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANABAENA; CYANOBACTERIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PENICILLINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHYLOGENY;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 27744541317     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0046-8     Document Type: Article

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