Production and purification of the bacterial autolysin N-acetylmuramoyl-l-alanine amidase B from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 128-137

  Scheurwater, Edie M ^a   Pfeffer, John M ^a   Clarke, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amidase B; Autolysin; Murein; Peptidoglycan; Protein production; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 34848920067     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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