Involvement of an essential gene, mviN, in murein synthesis in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 7298-7301

  Inoue, Azusa ^a   Murata, Yoshimitsu ^b   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^b   Tsuji, Naoko ^a   Fujisaki, Shingo ^b   Kato, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSAMINE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYPRENYLDIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLMURAMIC ACID (PENTAPEPTIDE) N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL MUTANT; CELL SWELLING; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GLYCOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS; MVIN GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HEMITERPENES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 55749104427     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00551-08     Document Type: Article

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