Analysis of the murein of a Listeria monocytogenes EGD mutant lacking functional penicillin binding protein 5 (PBP5)

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 339-342

  Korsak, Dorota ^a   Popowska, Magdalena ^a   Markiewicz, Zdzisław ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

HPLC; Listeria monocytogenes; Murein; Penicillin binding protein (PBP)

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE TRANSPEPTIDASE; DIMER; DISACCHARIDE; LYSOZYME; MONOMER; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 5; PENTAPEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TRIPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN;

CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENES, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 30944437816     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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