Building the invisible wall: Updating the chlamydial peptidoglycan anomaly

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 70-77

  McCoy, Andrea J ^a   Maurelli, Anthony T ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIGASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CATALYSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; REVIEW;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; CHLAMYDIALES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 31944450440     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2005.12.004     Document Type: Review

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