Identification and overexpression in Escherichia coli of a Mycobacterium leprae gene, pon1, encoding a high-molecular-mass class A penicillin-binding protein, PBP1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1707-1711

  Basu, Joyoti ^a   Mahapatra, Sebabrata ^a   Kundu, Manikuntala ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay ^a   Nguyen Distèche, Martine ^b   Dubois, Philippe ^b   Joris, Bernard ^b   Van Beeumen, Jozef ^c   Cole, Stewart T ^d   Chakrabarti, Parul ^a   Ghuysen, Jean Marie ^b  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; COSMID; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 9044250489     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.6.1707-1711.1996     Document Type: Article

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