Mosquito has a single multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase characterized by unique substrate specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1665-1672

  Knecht, Wolfgang ^a,e   Petersen, Gitte Ebert ^a,b   Sandrini, Michael Paolo Bastner ^a   Søndergaard, Leif ^c   Munch Petersen, Birgitte ^d   Piškur, Jure ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Jubile Kinase ApS   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 CHLORODEOXYADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; 5 (2 BROMOVINYL) 2' DEOXYURIDINE; DEOXYADENOSINE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DEOXYGUANOSINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE KINASE; INSECTICIDE; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; STAVUDINE; THYMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CATALYSIS; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MALARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE GENE THERAPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CELL LINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, DEAE-CELLULOSE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037444079     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg257     Document Type: Review

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