A sterol biosynthetic pathway in Mycobacterium
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- 16 October 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 437 (1-2) , 142-144
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01218-6
Abstract
The genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (and also M. leprae) revealed a significant number of homologies to Saccharomyces cerevisiae sterol biosynthetic enzymes. We addressed the hypothesis...Keywords
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