Characterization of AtlL, a bifunctional autolysin of Staphylococcus lugdunensis with N-acetylglucosaminidase and N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase activities

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-113

  Bourgeois, Ingrid ^a   Camiade, Emilie ^a   Biswas, Raja ^b   Courtin, Pascal ^c   Gibert, Laure ^a   Götz, Friedrich ^b   Chapot Chartier, Marie Pierre ^c   Pons, Jean Louis ^a   Pestel Caron, Martine ^a,d  

^a ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Autolysin; N acetylglucosaminidase; N acetylmuramoyl L alanine amidase; Peptidoglycan hydrolase; Staphylococcus lugdunensis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATIL GENE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS;

EID: 57449084178     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01414.x     Document Type: Article

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