The nucleoside diphosphate kinase of Mycobacterium smegmatis: Identification of proteins that modulate specificity of nucleoside triphosphate synthesis by the enzyme

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 477-487

  Shankar, Sandeep ^a   Hershberger, C Douglas ^a   Chakrabarty, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; PYRUVATE KINASE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0030904532     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3491724.x     Document Type: Article

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