Anchoring of LPXTG-like proteins to the gram-positive cell wall envelope

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 404, Issue , 2017, Pages 159-175

  Siegel, Sara D ^a   Reardon, Melissa E ^a   Ton That, Hung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LYSINE; NUCLEOPHILE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PILIN; POLYMER; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SORTASE; THREONINE; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; SORTASE A;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL ANCHORAGE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FIMBRIA; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; CELL WALL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS;

EID: 85018393754     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2016_8     Document Type: Chapter

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