Structure and mechanism of staphylococcus aureus TarM, the wall teichoic acid α-glycosyltransferase

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2015, Pages E576-E585

  Sobhanifar, Solmaz ^a   Worrall, Liam James ^a   Gruninger, Robert J ^a   Wasney, Gregory A ^a   Blaukopf, Markus ^a   Baumann, Lars ^a   Lameignere, Emilie ^a   Solomonson, Matthew ^a   Brown, Eric D ^b   Withers, Stephen G ^a   Strynadka, Natalie C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial pathogenicity; Cell wall; Crystal structure; Glycosyltransferase; Wall teichoic acid

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; TEICHOIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METAL;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLYCOSYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOPHILICITY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CELL WALL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME STABILITY; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEICHOIC ACIDS;

EID: 84922606932     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418084112     Document Type: Article

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