Screening for synthetic lethal mutants in Escherichia coli and identification of EnvC (YibP) as a periplasmic septal ring factor with murein hydrolase activity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1255-1269

  Bernhardt, Thomas G ^a   De Boer, Piet A J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; HYDROLYSIS; LETHALITY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; TRANSPOSON;

CELL DIVISION; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; OPERON; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 2942538589     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04063.x     Document Type: Article

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