Mutational analysis of class A and class B penicillin-binding proteins in Streptococcus gordonii

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4062-4069

  Haenni, Marisa ^a   Majcherczyk, Paul A ^a   Barblan, Jean Luc ^a   Moreillon, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASS A PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; CLASS B PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MONOMER; MURAMYL PEPTIDE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; TRITIUM;

AERATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; GENE SEQUENCE; GROWTH RATE; HYPEROSMOLARITY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33845254291     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00677-06     Document Type: Article

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