Structures of a bifunctional cell wall hydrolase CwlT containing a novel bacterial lysozyme and an NlpC/P60 dl-endopeptidase

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 426, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169-184

  Xu, Qingping ^a,b   Chiu, Hsiu Ju ^a,b   Farr, Carol L ^a,c   Jaroszewski, Lukasz ^a,d,e   Knuth, Mark W ^a,f   Miller, Mitchell D ^a,b   Lesley, Scott A ^a,c,f   Godzik, Adam ^a,d,e   Elsliger, Marc André ^a,c   Deacon, Ashley M ^a,b   Wilson, Ian A ^a,c  

^a Joint Center for Structural Genomics   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f GENOMICS INSTITUTE OF THE NOVARTIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial lysozyme; bifunctional cell wall lysin; muramidase; NlpC P60 endopeptidase; Tn916 family conjugative transposons

Indexed keywords

CWIT PROTEIN; GLYCAN; GLYCOSIDASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROLASE; LYSOZYME; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSPOSON; ISOMERISM; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE 630; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84890855791     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.09.011     Document Type: Article

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