Identification of the mycothiol synthase gene (mshD) encoding the acetyltransferase producing mycothiol in actinomycetes

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 331-337

  Koledin, Teresa ^a   Newton, Gerald L ^a   Fahey, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinomycetes; MshD; Mycobacteria; Mycothiol; Mycothiol synthase

Indexed keywords

1 DEXTRO MYOINOSITYL 2 CYSTEINYLAMIDO 2 DEOXY ALPHA DEXTRO GLUCOPYRANOSIDE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOPYRANOSIDE; MYCOTHIOL; MYCOTHIOL SYNTHASE; SYNTHETASE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSPOSON;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; CYSTEINE; DISACCHARIDES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; INOSITOL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PYRAZOLES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TRANSPOSONS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036401562     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-002-0462-y     Document Type: Article

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