Functional analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis FAD-dependent thymidylate synthase, ThyX, reveals new amino acid residues contributing to an extended ThyX motif

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2056-2064

  Ulmer, Jonathan E ^a   Boum, Yap ^b   Thouvenel, Christopher D ^a   Myllykallio, Hannu ^b   Sibley, Carol Hopkins ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; HISTIDINE; PROTON; PYRIMIDINE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DEOXYURACIL NUCLEOTIDES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NADP; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THYMIDINE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

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

EID: 40449136466     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01094-07     Document Type: Article

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