The embAB genes of Mycobacterium avium encode an arabinosyl transferase involved in cell wall arabinan biosynthesis that is the target for the antimycobacterial drug ethambutol

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 11919-11924

  Belanger, Aimee E ^a,b   Besra, Gurdyal S ^a   Ford, Michael E ^a,b   Mikušová, Katarína ^a,c   Belisle, John T ^a   Brennan, Patrick J ^a   Inamine, Julia M ^a  

^a Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Comenius University ^*  (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPREOMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ETHAMBUTOL; GALACTANS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; OPEN READING FRAMES; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0029908204     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.21.11919     Document Type: Article

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