Structural basis of cell wall cleavage by a staphylococcal autolysin

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Zoll, Sebastian ^a   Pätzold, Bernhard ^a   Schlag, Martin ^a   Götz, Friedrich ^a   Kalbacher, Hubert ^a,b   Stehle, Thilo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AUTOLYSIN; HYDROLASE; MURAMYL TRIPEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; ZINC ION; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; N ACETYLMURAMYLALANYL DEXTRO ISOGLUTAMINE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BETA SHEET; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ACETYLMURAMYL-ALANYL-ISOGLUTAMINE; AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL WALL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77950423334     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000807     Document Type: Article

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