Biochemistry of the non-mevalonate isoprenoid pathway

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 3797-3814

  Gräwert, Tobias ^a   Groll, Michael ^a   Rohdich, Felix ^b   Bacher, Adelbert ^a   Eisenreich, Wolfgang ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deoxyxylulose; Dimethylallyl diphosphate; Isopentenyl diphosphate; Isoprenoid biosynthesis; Isp proteins; Methyerythritol; Mevalonate; Terpenes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DXS PROTEIN; FOSMIDOMYCIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE; ISOPRENOID; ISPC PROTEIN; ISPD PROTEIN; ISPDF PROTEIN; ISPE PROTEIN; ISPF PROTEIN; ISPG PROTEIN; ISPH PROTEIN; MEVALONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICOMPLEXA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG SCREENING; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IC 50; MALARIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENOMICS; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; MEVALONIC ACID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; TERPENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 82255186388     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-011-0753-z     Document Type: Review

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