Lytic enzyme discovery through multigenomic sequence analysis in Clostridium perfringens

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1783-1795

  Schmitz, Jonathan E ^a   Ossiprandi, Maria Cristina ^b   Rumah, Kareem R ^a   Fischetti, Vincent A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Enzybiotic; Lysin; Muramidase; Prophage

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENZYBIOTIC; LYSIN; MURAMIDASE; PROPHAGES;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIODEGRADATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMES; GENE ENCODING; LAKES;

CLOSTRIDIUM;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PHAGE LYSIN CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS MURAMIDASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATABASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME; PATHOGEN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PH; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME STABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 79952574310     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2982-8     Document Type: Article

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