The localization of key Bacillus subtilis penicillin binding proteins during cell growth is determined by substrate availability

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3272-3281

  Lages, Marta Carolina Afonso ^a   Beilharz, Katrin ^a   Morales Angeles, Danae ^a   Veening, Jan Willem ^a   Scheffers, Dirk Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MURAMYL NAC (PENTAPEPTIDE)PYROPHOSPHORYL UNDECAPRENOL; MURAMYL-NAC-(PENTAPEPTIDE)PYROPHOSPHORYL-UNDECAPRENOL; NISIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CYTOSKELETON; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NISIN; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

EID: 84888881225     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12206     Document Type: Article

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