Role of the Escherichia coli SbmA in the antimicrobial activity of proline-rich peptides

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 151-163

  Mattiuzzo, Maura ^a   Bandiera, Antonella ^a   Gennaro, Renato ^a   Benincasa, Monica ^a   Pacor, Sabrina ^a   Antcheva, Nikolinka ^a   Scocchi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROLINE; SBMA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 34548664145     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05903.x     Document Type: Article

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