Phylogeny of the staphylococcal major autolysin and its use in genus and species typing

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2630-2636

  Albrecht, Till ^a   Raue, Stefan ^a   Rosenstein, Ralf ^a   Nieselt, Kay ^a   Götz, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; AUTOLYSIN; GLUCOSAMINIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84861371009     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06609-11     Document Type: Article

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