Gammaherpesviruses encode functional dihydrofolate reductase activity

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 297, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 756-759

  Gáspár, Gábor ^a,b   De Clercq, Erik ^a   Neyts, Johan ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPTERIN; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST; METHOTREXATE; NALPHA (4 AMINO 4 DEOXYPTEROYL) NDELTA HEMIPHTHALOYLORNITHINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAHERPESVIRUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS SAIMIRI; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS RHADINOVIRUS; VIRUS PURIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAHERPESVIRINAE; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

CERCOPITHECINE HERPESVIRUS 17; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; RHADINOVIRUS; SAIMIRI; SAIMIRIINE HERPESVIRUS 2;

EID: 0036029945     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)02286-6     Document Type: Article

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