Morphing peptide backbones into heterocycles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5655-5656

  Walsh, Christopher T ^a   Nolan, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; HEPTAPEPTIDE; ISOPENICILLIN N SYNTHETASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CYCLIZATION; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDES;

EID: 44449109082     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802300105     Document Type: Note

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