Identification, characterisation and specificity of a cell wall lytic enzyme from Lactobacillus fermentum BR11

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-15

  Turner, Mark S ^a   Hafner, Louise M ^a   Walsh, Terry ^a   Giffard, Philip M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Endolysin; Lactobacillus

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL WALL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ORDER; GLUTAMATE-TRNA LIGASE; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIDASE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROPHAGES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS BACTERIOPHAGE PHI ADH; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 4444228659     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.07.008     Document Type: Article

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