Transmembrane transport of peptidoglycan precursors across model and bacterial membranes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1105-1114

  Van Dam, Vincent ^a   Sijbrandi, Robert ^a   Kol, Matthijs ^b   Swiezewska, Ewa ^c   De Kruijff, Ben ^a   Breukink, Eefjan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPID; LIPID II; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN MURG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CATALYSIS; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOSYLATION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LIPID TRANSPORT; LIPID VESICLE; LIPOGENESIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AZOLES; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; COLD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT DYES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NITROBENZENES; PEPTIDOGLYCAN GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; STAINING AND LABELING; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34248341732     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05722.x     Document Type: Article

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