Metabolite profiling and peptidoglycan analysis of transient cell wall-deficient bacteria in a new Escherichia coli model system

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1586-1599

  Cambré, Alexander ^a   Zimmermann, Michael ^b   Sauer, Uwe ^b   Vivijs, Bram ^a   Cenens, William ^a   Michiels, Chris W ^a   Aertsen, Abram ^a   Loessner, Martin J ^b   Noben, Jean Paul ^c   Ayala, Juan A ^d   Lavigne, Rob ^a   Briers, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BETA LACTAM; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE TRANSPEPTIDASE; DACC PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MEMBRANE LIPID; PBP5 PROTEIN, E COLI; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMS; CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SERINE-TYPE D-ALA-D-ALA CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

EID: 84928252288     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12594     Document Type: Article

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