Bacterial thymidylate synthase with intein, group II intron, and distinctive ThyX motifs

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 6316-6319

  Liu, Xiang Qin ^a   Yang, Jing ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEIN; PROTEIN THYX; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SPLICING; ENZYME ANALYSIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CYANOBACTERIA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOMYCES; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; TRICHODESMIUM; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

EID: 4444319825     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.18.6316-6319.2004     Document Type: Article

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