Structural determinants required to target penicillin-binding protein 3 to the septum of Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 6110-6117

  Piette, André ^a   Fraipont, Claudine ^a   Den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^b   Aarsman, Mirjam E G ^b   Pastoret, Soumya ^a   Nguyen Distèche, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN FTSQ; PROTEIN FTSW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DIVISOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MUTATION; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4444297890     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.18.6110-6117.2004     Document Type: Article

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