Mycobacterium tuberculosis CwsA interacts with CrgA and Wag31, and the CrgA-CwsA complex is involved in peptidoglycan synthesis and cell shape determination

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 6398-6409

  Plocinski, P ^a,d   Arora, N ^a   Sarva, K ^a   Blaszczyk, E ^a   Qin, H ^c   Das, N ^c   Plocinska, R ^a,b   Ziolkiewicz, M ^b   Dziadek, J ^b   Kiran, M ^a   Gorla, P ^a   Cross, T A ^c   Madiraju, M ^a   Rajagopalan, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRGA PROTEIN; CWSA PROTEIN; FTSI PROTEIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WAG31 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CELL WALL; GENE DELETION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84871059187     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01005-12     Document Type: Article

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