The streptococcolytic enzyme zoocin A is a penicillin-binding protein

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 205-211

  Heath, Lucie S ^a   Heath, Harry E ^a   LeBlanc, Paul A ^a   Smithberg, S Rochelle ^a   Dufour, Muriel ^b   Simmonds, Robin S ^b   Sloan, Gary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Penicillin binding protein; Peptidoglycan hydrolase; Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus; Zoocin A

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; DEXTRO ALANYLENDOPEPTIDASE; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZOOCIN A;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP. ZOOEPIDEMICUS;

EID: 3142538571     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.05.038     Document Type: Article

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