Functional Insights into the High-Molecular-Mass Penicillin-Binding Proteins of Streptococcus agalactiae Revealed by Gene Deletion and Transposon Mutagenesis Analysis-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Functional Insights into the High-Molecular-Mass Penicillin-Binding Proteins of Streptococcus agalactiae Revealed by Gene Deletion and Transposon Mutagenesis Analysis

Published:2021-08-09 Issue:17 Volume:203 Page:
ISSN:0021-9193
Container-title:Journal of Bacteriology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Bacteriol

Author:

Zhu Luchang¹²^ORCID,Yerramilli Prasanti¹,Pruitt Layne¹,Mishra Abhishek¹,Olsen Randall J.¹²,Beres Stephen B.¹^ORCID,Waller Andrew S.³⁴,Musser James M.¹²

Affiliation:

1. Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA

3. Intervacc, Stockholm, Sweden

4. Department of Biomedical Science and Veterinary Public Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract

High-molecular-mass penicillin-binding proteins (HMM PBPs) are enzymes required for bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. Bacterial pathogen group B streptococcus (GBS) produces five distinct HMM PBPs.

Funder

Methodist Hospital Research Institute

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JB.00234-21

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