Inteins as targets for potential antimycobacterial drugs

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Paulus, Henry ^a,b  

^a BOSTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimycobacterial Drugs; CcdB toxin; DNA gyrase; DnaB; Drug Screening; Drug Targets; Fluorescent Protein; Green; High Throughput Screening; Inteins; Mycobacterium Tuberculosis; Protein Splicing; RecA; Review; Thymidylate synthase

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; DNA B; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; ETHAMBUTOL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEIN; ISONIAZID; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLONE; RECA PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNAB HELICASE; HELICASE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ALLELE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DEATH; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TARGETING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SCREENING; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; DNAB HELICASES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN SPLICING; REC A RECOMBINASES;

EID: 3042840324     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1195     Document Type: Review

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