Mutational analysis of peptidoglycan amidase MepA

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-128

  Firczuk, Małgorzata ^a,b   Bochtler, Matthias ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSOSTAPHIN; METALLOPEPTIDASES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN AMIDASE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; POSITIVE IONS;

ENZYME KINETICS;

AMIDASE; ASPARTIC ACID; DEXTRO ALANINE; DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN MEPA; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; ZINC;

ESCHERICHIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 33846046532     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0613776     Document Type: Article

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