Mechanistic and functional insights into fatty acid activation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 166-173

  Arora, Pooja ^a   Goyal, Aneesh ^b   Natarajan, Vivek T ^a   Rajakumara, Eerappa ^b   Verma, Priyanka ^a   Gupta, Radhika ^c   Yousuf, Malikmohamed ^b   Trivedi, Omita A ^a   Mohanty, Debasisa ^a   Tyagi, Anil ^c   Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ^b   Gokhale, Rajesh S ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COENZYME A; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN FAAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 60249099423     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.143     Document Type: Article

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