Poly(glucosyl-N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate), a wall teichoic acid of Bacillus subtilis 168: Its biosynthetic pathway and mode of attachment to peptidoglycan

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1709-1718

  Freymond, Pierre Philippe ^a,b   Lazarevic, Vladimir ^a   Soldo, Blazenka ^a   Karamata, Dimitri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE TRANSFERASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLY(GLUCOSYL N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE 1 PHOSPHATE); SUGAR; TEICHOIC ACID; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEAT SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTOPLAST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TEICHOIC ACIDS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33745252174     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28814-0     Document Type: Article

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