Structure of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase, an enzyme essential for the synthesis of bacterial peptidoglycan, complexed with substrate UDP-N-acetylglucosamine and the drug fosfomycin

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1465-1474

  Skarzynski, Tadeusz ^a   Mistry, Anil ^b   Wonacott, Alan ^a   Hutchinson, Susan E ^a   Kelly, Valerie A ^a   Duncan, Kenneth ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

enolpyruvyl transferase; fosfomycin; peptidoglycan biosynthesis; substrate binding; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030589610     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00153-0     Document Type: Article

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