Functional Characterisation of Three O-methyltransferases Involved in the Biosynthesis of Phenolglycolipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Simeone, Roxane ^a,b,c   Huet, Gaëlle ^a,b,d   Constant, Patricia ^a,b   Malaga, Wladimir ^a,b   Lemassu, Anne ^a,b   Laval, Françoise ^a,b   Daffé, Mamadou ^a,b   Guilhot, Christophe ^a,b   Chalut, Christian ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYL GROUP; METHYL PARABEN; PHENOLIC GLYCOLIPID; PHENOLIC GLYCOLIPID TB; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE DELETION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPOGENESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PURIFICATION; RV2954C GENE; RV2955C GENE; RV2956 GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; GENE ORDER; GLYCOLIPIDS; HUMANS; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84874900343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058954     Document Type: Article

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