Penicillin-binding proteins and β-lactam resistance

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 361-385

  Zapun, André ^a   Contreras Martel, Carlos ^a   Vernet, Thierry ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Enterococcus; Neisseria; Staphylococcus aureus; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFORMATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOMYCES CLAVULIGERUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMS; ENTEROCOCCUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; NEISSERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 39149104344     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2007.00095.x     Document Type: Review

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