Purification and preliminary crystallization of alanine racemase from Streptococcus pneumoniae

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Strych, Ulrich ^a   Davlieva, Milya ^a   Longtin, Joseph P ^a   Murphy, Eileen L ^a   Im, Hookang ^a   Benedik, Michael J ^b   Krause, Kurt L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE RACEMASE; TETRAPEPTIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OTITIS MEDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ALANINE; ALANINE RACEMASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34249800689     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-7-40     Document Type: Article

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