Characterization of Treponema denticola pyrF encoding orotidine-5′- monophosphate decarboxylase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 261-267

  Capone, Ricardo F ^a   Ning, Yu ^a   Pakulis, Nora ^a   Alhazzazi, Turki ^a   Christopher Fenno, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis; Mutagenesis; Spirochete; Treponema

Indexed keywords

FLUOROOROTIC ACID; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PYRIMIDINE; URACIL;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTATION; OROTIC ACID; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PYRIMIDINES; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; URACIL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA ATCC 35405;

EID: 33846989340     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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