Article
Peptidoglycan cross-linking in Staphylococcus aureus. An apparent random polymerisation process.
European journal of biochemistry - 31 Jul 1990
Snowden M A, Perkins H R
Abstract excerpt
The peptidoglycan of Staphylococcus aureus contains relatively short glycan chains and is highly cross-linked via its peptide chains. The material from wild-type (strain H) and mutants H28, H4B and MR-1 was freed from the teichoic-acid-linked component and then hydrolysed by Chalaropsis muramidase to yield disaccharide-repeating units of the glycan with attached peptides either non-cross-linked (monomer) or...
Topics
- Binding Sites
- Chemical Fractionation
- Chromatography, Gel
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Mathematics
- Models, Theoretical
- Muramidase
- Mutation
- Peptide Fragments
- Peptidoglycan
- Polymers