Sortase‐catalysed anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus
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- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (5) , 1049-1057
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02411.x
Abstract
Many surface proteins of Gram‐positive bacteria are anchored to the cell wall envelope by a transpeptidation mechanism, requiring a C‐terminal sorting signal with a conserved LPXTG motif. Sortase, a ...Keywords
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