Structural and functional analysis of SleL, a peptidoglycan lysin involved in germination of Bacillus spores

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1787-1799

  Üstok, Fatma Işik ^a,b   Chirgadze, Dimitri Y ^a   Christie, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortex lytic enzyme; Crystal structure

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SLEL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL SPORE; CATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPORE GERMINATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84941172658     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24861     Document Type: Article

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