Molecular properties of the putative autolysin AtlWM encoded by Staphylococcus warneri M: Mutational and biochemical analyses of the amidase and glucosaminidase domains

Gene

Volumn 416, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 66-76

  Yokoi, Ken ji ^a,b   Sugahara, Kazuki ^a   Iguchi, Akinori ^a   Nishitani, Go ^a   Ikeda, Masahide ^a   Shimada, Takako ^a   Inagaki, Nobuya ^a   Yamakawa, Ayanori ^c   Taketo, Akira ^d   Kodaira, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b Toyama Prefectural Agricultural Forestry And Fisheries Research Center   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d FUKUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amidase; Autolysin; Glucosaminidase; GW motif; Staphylococcus warneri M

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; AUTOLYSIN; GLUCOSAMINIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEXOSAMINIDASES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSFECTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS WARNERI;

EID: 43049179699     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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