TgpA, a Protein with a Eukaryotic-Like Transglutaminase Domain, Plays a Critical Role in the Viability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Milani, Andrea ^a   Vecchietti, Davide ^a   Rusmini, Ruggero ^a   Bertoni, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSGLUTAMINASE PROTEIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENOMICS; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PERIPLASM; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84870278199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050323     Document Type: Article

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