Recent advances in pneumococcal peptidoglycan biosynthesis suggest new vaccine and antimicrobial targets

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 194-203

  Sham, Lok To ^a   Tsui, Ho Ching T ^a   Land, Adrian D ^a   Barendt, Skye M ^a   Winkler, Malcolm E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; PROTEIN SECA; SECY PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE OMI;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; DRUG TARGETING; GLYCOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; R FACTOR; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84861805227     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2011.12.013     Document Type: Review

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