Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae mhp379 is a Ca2+-dependent, sugar-nonspecific exonuclease exposed on the cell surface

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3414-3424

  Schmidt, Jonathan A ^a   Browning, Glenn F ^a   Markham, Philip F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CALCIUM ION; CIRCULAR DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXONUCLEASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN MHP379; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; THROMBIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL SURFACE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR SIZE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOPLASMA HYOPNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CALCIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ENDONUCLEASES; ENZYME ACTIVATORS; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MYCOPLASMA HYOPNEUMONIAE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HYOPNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMATALES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34247622396     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01835-06     Document Type: Article

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