Reconstitution of the peptidoglycan cytoplasmic precursor biosynthetic pathway in cell-free system and rapid screening of antisense oligonucleotides for Mur enzymes

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1785-1794

  Sheng, Jiayuan ^a   Huang, Lei ^a   Zhu, Xiangcheng ^a   Cai, Jin ^a   Xu, Zhinan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antisense oligonucleotides; Cell free system; In vitro pathway reconstruction; UDP N acetylmuramyl pentapeptide

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

EID: 84894337796     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-5467-8     Document Type: Article

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