Analysis of peptidoglycan precursors in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus gallinarum BM4174.

doi:10.1042/bj3010005

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Analysis of peptidoglycan precursors in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus gallinarum BM4174.

The Biochemical journal - 1 Jul 1994

Reynolds P E, Snaith H A, Maguire A J, Dutka-Malen S, Courvalin P

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Vancomycin resistance in enterococci is an increasing clinical problem, and several phenotypes have been identified. We demonstrate here that the resistance mechanism in the constitutively vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus gallinarum BM4174 involves an altered pathway of peptidoglycan synthesis a...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Binding Sites
Carboxypeptidases
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Endopeptidases
Enterococcus
Genes, Bacterial
Molecular Sequence Data
Peptidoglycan
Phenotype
Protein Precursors
Vancomycin

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