Article
Identification and molecular characterization of a gene homologous to epr (endopeptidase resistance gene) in Staphylococcus aureus.
Gene - 11 Dec 1998
Sugai M, Fujiwara T, Komatsuzawa H, SuginakaH
Abstract excerpt
Certain Staphylococci possess a gene called epr or lif that renders the cells resistant to lysis by glycylglycine endopeptidase. The resistance is conferred by modifying the amino acid composition of interpeptide chains in cell-wall peptidoglycan by increasing serine content and decreasing glycin...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacteriolysis
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Endopeptidases
- Enzymes
- Genes, Bacterial
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Transcription, Genetic