The rhodanese domain of ThiI is both necessary and sufficient for synthesis of the Thiazole moiety of thiamine in Salmonella enterica

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4582-4587

  Martinez Gomez, N Cecilia ^a,c   Palmer, Lauren D ^a   Vivas, Eugenio ^a   Roach, Peter L ^b   Downs, Diana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 THIOURIDINE; CYSTEINE; ENZYME; GLUTATHIONE; SULFUR; THIAMINE; THIAZOLE; THII ENZYME; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; THIOURIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SULFURTRANSFERASES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; THIAMINE; THIAZOLES;

SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 80052542045     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05325-11     Document Type: Article

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