PrgK, a multidomain peptidoglycan hydrolase, is essential for conjugative transfer of the pheromone-responsive plasmid pCF10

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 527-539

  Laverde Gomez, Jenny A ^a   Bhatty, Minny ^a   Christie, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HISTIDINE; HYDROLASE; PCF 10 PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; PRGK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MUTATION; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84892385572     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00950-13     Document Type: Article

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