Peptidoglycan hydrolase fusions maintain their parental specificities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2988-2996

  Donovan, David M ^a   Dong, Shengli ^b   Garrett, Wes ^a   Rousseau, Geneviève M ^c   Moineau, Sylvain ^c   Pritchard, David G ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIODIVERSITY; CELL CULTURE; DNA; MICROORGANISMS; PATHOLOGY;

ANTIMICROBIALS; BACTERIAL ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; LYSOSTAPHIN PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN HYDROLASES;

ENZYMES;

ENDOLYSIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN HYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YOGHURT;

ANTIBIOTICS; CATTLE; MICROORGANISM; PATHOGEN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASTITIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CATTLE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; LYSOSTAPHIN; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 33646102467     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.4.2988-2996.2006     Document Type: Article

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