A new thiamin salvage pathway

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 492-497

  Jenkins, Amy Haas ^a   Schyns, Ghislain ^b   Potot, Sébastien ^b   Sun, Guangxing ^a   Begley, Tadhg P ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b DSM NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; N FORMYL 4 AMINO 5 AMINOMETHYL 2 METHYLPYRIMIDINE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; THIAMINE; TOXOPYRIMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS HALODURANS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34447518986     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2007.13     Document Type: Article

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