Novel TPP-riboswitch activators bypass metabolic enzyme dependency

Frontiers in Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Lünse, Christina E ^a   Scott, Fraser J ^b   Suckling, Colin J ^b   Mayer, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Click chemistry; Metabolic enzymes; Metal chelating compounds; Riboswitches; Triazolethiamine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987606101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2014.00053     Document Type: Article

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