Human- and plant-pathogenic Pseudomonas species produce bacteriocins exhibiting colicin M-like hydrolase activity towards peptidoglycan precursors

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3657-3664

  Barreteau, Hélène ^a,b   Bouhss, Ahmed ^a,b   Fourgeaud, Martine ^c,d   Mainardi, Jean Luc ^c,d   Touzé, Thierry ^a,b   Gérard, Fabien ^a,b   Blanot, Didier ^a,b   Arthur, Michel ^c,d   Mengin Lecreulx, Dominique ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; COLICIN; HYDROLASE; LIPID; MAGNESIUM ION; PENTAPEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PYOCIN; PYROPHOSPHATE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LIPID I; MONOSACCHARIDE; MURAMYL NAC (PENTAPEPTIDE)PYROPHOSPHORYL UNDECAPRENOL; MURAMYL-NAC-(PENTAPEPTIDE)PYROPHOSPHORYL-UNDECAPRENOL; OLIGOPEPTIDE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; ENZYMOLOGY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOCINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLICINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDES; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PLANTS; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

EID: 66149088098     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01824-08     Document Type: Article

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