Chorismate synthase from Staphylococcus aureus

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2943-2950

  Horsburgh, Malcolm J ^a,d   Foster, Timothy J ^b   Barth, Peter T ^c   Coggins, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chorismate synthase; Nucleoside diphosphate kinase; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

CHORISMIC ACID; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0029854051     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-10-2943     Document Type: Article

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