Crystal structure of the anti-fungal target N-myristoyl transferase

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 213-221

  Weston, Simon A ^a   Camble, Roger ^a   Colls, Jeremy ^a   Rosenbrock, Gina ^a   Taylor, Ian ^a   Egerton, Mark ^a   Tucker, Alec D ^a,c   Tunnicliffe, Alan ^a,d   Mistry, Anil ^a   Manda, Filippo ^b,e   De La Fortelle, Eric ^b   Irwin, John ^b   Bricogne, Gerard ^b   Pauptit, Richard A ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d Inst F Molekular Botechnologie   (Germany)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR; TRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACYL COENZYME A; ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FUNGI; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENON;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031889926     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0398-213     Document Type: Article

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