Interaction between two murein (peptidoglycan) synthases, PBP3 and PBP1B, in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 675-690

  Bertsche, Ute ^a   Kast, Thomas ^b,e   Wolf, Benoît ^c   Fraipont, Claudine ^c   Aarsman, Mirjam E G ^d   Kannenberg, Kai ^a,f   Von Rechenberg, Moritz ^b,g   Nguyen Distèche, Martine ^c   Den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^d   Höltje, Joachim Volker ^b,h   Vollmer, Waldemar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e Georg Thieme Verlag   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^h Galerie Jochen Holtje Tubingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HISTIDINE; PBP1B ENZYME; PBP3 ENZYME; PEPTIDOGLYCAN SYNTHASE ENZYME; SEPHAROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ENZYMES, IMMOBILIZED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33748333182     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05280.x     Document Type: Article

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