Specialized peptidoglycan hydrolases sculpt the intra-bacterial niche of predatory Bdellovibrio and increase population fitness

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lerner, Thomas R ^a   Lovering, Andrew L ^b   Bui, Nhat Khai ^c   Uchida, Kaoru ^d   Aizawa, Shin Ichi ^d   Vollmer, Waldemar ^c   Sockett, R Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DD ENDO CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; HYDROLASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN HYDROLASE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENE BD3459; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BDELLOVIBRIO; CELL DIVISION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRACELLULAR KILLING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BDELLOVIBRIO; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOVIBRIO; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84860904824     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002524     Document Type: Article

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