Identification of the two missing bacterial genes involved in thiamine salvage: Thiamine pyrophosphokinase and thiamine kinase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3660-3662

  Melnick, Jonathan ^a   Lis, Ewa ^a   Park, Joo Heon ^a   Kinsland, Cynthia ^a   Mori, Hirotada ^b   Baba, Tomoya ^c   Perkins, John ^d   Schyns, Ghislain ^d   Vassieva, Olga ^e   Osterman, Andrei ^e   Begley, Tadhg P ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^e Integrated Genomics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; THIAMINE KINASE; THIAMINE PHOSPHATE; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YCFN GENE; YLOS GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; NAD; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); THIAMIN PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; THIAMINE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 2442681699     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.11.3660-3662.2004     Document Type: Article

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