Mycobacterium smegmatis has two pyrazinamidase enzymes, PncA and PzaA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 3881-3884

  Guo, Ming ^a   Sun, Zhonghe ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; PYRAZINAMIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NICOTINAMIDASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0034123774     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.13.3881-3884.2000     Document Type: Article

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