Determination of the pathway for rhamnose biosynthesis in mycobacteria: Cloning, sequencing and expression of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene encoding α-D-glucose-1-phosphate thymidylyltransferase

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 937-945

  Ma, Yufang ^a   Mills, Jonathan A ^a,b   Belisle, John T ^a   Vissa, Vara ^a   Howell, Mark ^a   Bowlin, Kelly ^a   Scherman, Michael S ^a   McNeil, Michael ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Chugai Biopharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug development; Mycobacterial cell wall; rfb; Rhamnose; Thymidylyltransferase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PRIMER DNA; RHAMNOSE; THYMIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030950127     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-3-937     Document Type: Article

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