Chloroviruses encode a bifunctional dCMP-dCTP deaminase that produces two key intermediates in dTTP formation

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 7662-7671

  Zhang, Yuanzheng ^a,d   Maley, Frank ^b   Maley, Gladys F ^b   Duncan, Garry ^c   Dunigan, David D ^a   Van Etten, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAMINASE; DEOXYCYTIDINE PHOSPHATE DEAMINASE; DEOXYCYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYCYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE DEAMINASE; DEOXYURIDINE PHOSPHATE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; THYMIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENZYME;

ARTICLE; CHLORELLA VIRUS; CHLOROVIRUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME KINETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA CHLORELLA VIRUS 1; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORELLA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DCMP DEAMINASE; DNA PRIMERS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE DEAMINASES; PHYCODNAVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THYMINE NUCLEOTIDES;

CHLOROVIRUS; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA CHLORELLA VIRUS 1;

EID: 34447269915     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00186-07     Document Type: Article

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