A cytoplasmic peptidoglycan amidase homologue controls mycobacterial cell wall synthesis

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue JUN2016, 2016, Pages

  Boutte, Cara C ^a   Baer, Christina E ^b   Papavinasasundaram, Kadamba ^b   Liu, Weiru ^a   Chase, Michael R ^a   Meniche, Xavier ^b   Fortune, Sarah M ^a   Sassetti, Christopher M ^b   Ioerger, Thomas R ^c   Rubin, Eric J ^a,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CWLM PROTEIN; CYTOPLASMIC PEPTIDOGLYCAN AMIDASE HOMOLOGUE; MURA ENZYME; PROTEIN KINASE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL WALL SYNTHESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; STARVATION; SYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; CYTOPLASM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

CELL WALL; CYTOPLASM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84979707947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.14590     Document Type: Article

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