Rickettsia prowazekii transports ump and gmp, but not cmp, as building blocks for rna synthesis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3238-3241

  Winkler, Herbert H ^a   Daugherty, Robin ^a   Hu, Fuquan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE PHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; RNA; URIDINE PHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME; TYPHUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII;

EID: 0032911529     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.10.3238-3241.1999     Document Type: Article

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