Drug targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall synthesis: Development of a microtiter plate-based screen for UDP-galactopyranose mutase and identification of an inhibitor from a uridine-based library

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 378-382

  Scherman, Michael S ^a   Winans, Katharine A ^a   Stern, Richard J ^a   Jones, Victoria ^a   Bertozzi, Carolyn R ^a   McNeil, Michael R ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

320KAW73; BACTERIAL ENZYME; ENZYME INHIBITOR; MUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DERIVATIVE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOPYRANOSE MUTASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME INHIBITOR INTERACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037226407     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.1.378-382.2003     Document Type: Article

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