Borrelia burgdorferi uridine kinase: An enzyme of the pyrimidine salvage pathway for endogenous use of nucleotides

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 257-261

  Boursaux Eude, C ^a   Margarita, D ^a   Gilles, A M ^a   Barzu O ^a   Saint Girons, I ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Pyrimidine; Telomere; udk

Indexed keywords

URIDINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PYRIMIDINES; URIDINE KINASE;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 0030786551     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00171-7     Document Type: Article

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