Discovery of a metabolic alternative to the classical mevalonate pathway

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Dellas, Nikki ^a,b,c   Thomas, Suzanne T ^b   Manning, Gerard ^b,d   Noel, Joseph P ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPENTENYL PHOSPHATE KINASE; MEVALONATE PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; MEVALONIC ACID; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLONING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MEVALONATE PATHWAY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

EID: 84890325085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00672.001     Document Type: Article

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