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Identification of Treponema pallidum penicillin-binding proteins
T M Cunningham1, J N Miller, M A Lovett
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
Journal of Bacteriology
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
Penicillin-binding proteins of 180, 89, 80, 68, 61, 41, and 38 kilodaltons were identified in Treponema pallidum (Nichols) by their covalent binding of [35S]benzylpenicillin. Penicillin-binding proteins are localized in the plasma membranes of many bacterial species and may serve as useful markers for determining plasma membrane intactness in T. pallidum fractionation studies.