The crystal structure of Clostridium perfringens SleM, a muramidase involved in cortical hydrolysis during spore germination

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1681-1689

  Al Riyami, Bahja ^a   Üstok, Fatma Işık ^b   Stott, Katherine ^a   Chirgadze, Dimitri Y ^a   Christie, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cortex lytic enzyme; GH25 family; peptidoglycan lysin; spore

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME; SLEM PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CIRCULANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SPORE GERMINATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBRONECTIN TYPE III DOMAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBRONECTIN TYPE III DOMAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MURAMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84981354113     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.25112     Document Type: Article

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