The tape measure protein of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage vB_SauS-phiIPLA35 has an active muramidase domain

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6369-6371

  Rodríguez Rubio, Lorena ^a   Gutiérrez, Dolores ^a   Martínez, Beatriz ^a   Rodríguez, Ana ^a   Götz, Friedrich ^b   García, Pilar ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF DAIRY PRODUCTS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME; VIRUS PROTEIN;

BACTERIOLYSIS; GENETICS; NOTE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIOLYSIS; MURAMIDASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84866150170     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01236-12     Document Type: Note

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