Septal and lateral wall localization of PBP5, the major D,D-carboxypeptidase of Escherichia coli, requires substrate recognition and membrane attachment

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 300-323

  Potluri, Lakshmiprasad ^a   Karczmarek, Aneta ^b   Verheul, Jolanda ^b   Piette, Andre ^c   Wilkin, Jean Marc ^c,f   Werth, Nadine ^d   Banzhaf, Manuel ^e   Vollmer, Waldemar ^e   Young, Kevin D ^a   Nguyen Distèche, Martine ^c   Den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; FTSZ PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIPID; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 5; PENTAPEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TETRAPEPTIDE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE D; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; WILD TYPE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77954375639     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07205.x     Document Type: Article

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