Sortase enzymes in Gram-positive bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1044-1059

  Spirig, Thomas ^a,b   Weiner, Ethan M ^a,b   Clubb, Robert T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SORTASE; SORTASE A; SORTASE B; SORTASE C; SORTASE D; SORTASE E; SORTASE F; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CELL SURFACE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SHORT SURVEY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 82155168216     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07887.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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