Comparative genomics for mycobacterial peptidoglycan remodelling enzymes reveals extensive genetic multiplicity

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Machowski, Edith Erika ^a   Senzani, Sibusiso ^a   Ealand, Christopher ^a   Kana, Bavesh Davandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Amidases; D,D carboxypeptidases; Endopeptidases; Peptidoglycan; Transglycosylases; Transpeptidases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MURAMYL DIPEPTIDE; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEINASE; RESUSCITATION PROMOTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC MULTIPLICITY; GENOMICS; GRANULOMATOSIS; GROWTH STIMULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; PEPTIDOGLYCAN REMODELLING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84902332096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-14-75     Document Type: Article

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