Solution structure of the sortase required for efficient production of infectious bacillus anthracis spores

Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 7953-7963

  Robson, Scott A ^a,b,c   Jacobitz, Alex W ^a,b   Phillips, Martin L ^a   Clubb, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS SPORES; BACKBONE DYNAMICS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATALYTIC DOMAINS; CLASS-D; DISORDERED SURFACES; EFFICIENT PRODUCTION; GAIN INSIGHT; HEAVY-ATOM COORDINATES; MODELING STUDIES; MOLECULAR BASIS; PEPTIDOGLYCANS; RIGID BINDING; SOLUTION STRUCTURES; SORTASE; SORTING SIGNALS;

AMINO ACIDS; SUBSTRATES;

PROTEINS;

HISTIDINE; SORTASE; SRTC SORTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CATALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NITROGEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 84867452817     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi300867t     Document Type: Article

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