Crystal structure of the PepSY-containing domain of the YpeB protein involved in germination of bacillus spores

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1914-1921

  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; Cortex peptidoglycan; CwlJ; Inhibitory protein; SleB; SleL

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM YPEB PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL SPORE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPORE GERMINATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84941186811     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24868     Document Type: Article

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