The Mycobacterium tuberculosis purine biosynthetic pathway: Isolation and characterization of the purC and purL genes

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2439-2447

  Jackson, Mary ^a   Berthet, François Xavier ^a   Otal, Isabel ^b   Rauzier, Jean ^a   Martin, Carlos ^b   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a   Guilhot, Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Auxotrophy; Complementation; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Purine biosynthetic pathway

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PURINE;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; COSMID; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURINE SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHUTTLE VECTOR; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029744668     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-142-9-2439     Document Type: Article

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