Penicillin binding proteins: Key players in bacterial cell cycle and drug resistance processes

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 673-691

  Macheboeuf, Pauline ^a   Contreras Martel, Carlos ^a   Job, Viviana ^a   Dideberg, Otto ^a   Dessen, Andréa ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Penicillin binding proteins; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CEFTOBIPROLE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; DORIPENEM; PENEM DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TEBIPENEM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAUGHTER CELL; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CELL CYCLE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33746891446     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2006.00024.x     Document Type: Review

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