An accessory wall teichoic acid glycosyltransferase protects Staphylococcus aureus from the lytic activity of Podoviridae

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Xuehua ^a,b   Gerlach, David ^a,b   Du, Xin ^a,b   Larsen, Jesper ^c   Stegger, Marc ^c,d,e,f   Kuhner, Petra ^a,b   Peschel, Andreas ^a,b   Xia, Guoqing ^a,b,e   Winstel, Volker ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)   (Germany)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PODOVIRIDAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIROLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PODOVIRIDAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84948168055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17219     Document Type: Article

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