Acetohydroxyacid synthase from Mycobacterium avium and its inhibition by sulfonylureas and imidazolinones

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1649, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-105

  Zohar, Yehudit ^a   Einav, Monica ^a   Chipman, David M ^a   Barak, Ze'ev ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acetohydroxyacid synthase; Acetolactate synthase; Imidazolinone; Mycobacterium; Sulfonylurea; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; HERBICIDE; IMIDAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORSULFURON; ENZYME INHIBITOR; IMAZAQUIN; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; METHYL BENSULFURON; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SULFONAMIDE; TRIASULFURON; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG SCREENING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLASMID;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HERBICIDES; IMIDAZOLES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PLASMIDS; QUINOLINES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SULFONAMIDES; SULFONYLUREA COMPOUNDS; TRIAZINES;

EID: 0043123259     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-9639(03)00160-2     Document Type: Article

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