Characterization of two genes encoding the Mycobacterium tuberculosis ribonucleotide reductase small subunit

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 6408-6415

  Yang, Fude ^a,b   Curran, Sean C ^a   Li, Lin Sheng ^a   Avarbock, David ^a   Graf, Jon D ^a   Chua, Ming Ming ^a   Lu, Guizhen ^a   Salem, Jerome ^a   Rubin, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030879042     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.20.6408-6415.1997     Document Type: Article

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