Endolysin of bacteriophage BFK20: Evidence of a catalytic and a cell wall binding domain

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 321, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-91

  Gerova, Martina ^a   Halgasova, Nora ^a   Ugorcakova, Jana ^a   Bukovska, Gabriela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium; Corynephage; Fluorescence microscopy; Lysis; Protein purification

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOLYSIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE BFK20; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BREVIBACTERIUM FLAVUM; CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79960341238     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02312.x     Document Type: Article

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