Purine and pyrimidine nucleotide metabolism in Mollicutes

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 190-201

  Bizarro, Cristiano Valim ^a   Schuck, Desirée Cigaran ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Metabolic pathways; Metabolism; Mollicutes; Purine; Pyrimidine

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; NUCLEOTIDE; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PURINE METABOLISM; PYRIMIDINE METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOBACTERIA; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 34848826202     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572007000200005     Document Type: Article

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