Lipoteichoic acid biosynthesis: two steps forwards, one step sideways?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 219-225

  Rahman, Obaidur ^a   Dover, Lynn G ^a   Sutcliffe, Iain C ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LIPID MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; TEICHOIC ACIDS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 66249119393     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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