The analysis of cell division and cell wall synthesis genes reveals mutationally inactivated ftsQ and mraY in a protoplast-type L-form of Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 305-311

  Siddiqui, Roman A ^a   Hoischen, Christian ^a   Holst, Otto ^b   Heinze, Ivonne ^a   Schlott, Bernhard ^a   Gumpert, Johannes ^a   Diekmann, Stephan ^a   Grosse, Frank ^a   Platzer, Matthias ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell division; Cell wall; Escherichia coli; ftsQ; mraY; Protoplast type L form

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL SYNTHESIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; DCW GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FTSQ GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MRAY GENE; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; CODON, NONSENSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOPLASTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFERASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33646236534     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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