KasA, another brick in the mycobacterial cell wall. Academic Article

abstract

• Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, a disease that has been plaguing humanity for centuries, has a unique cell wall composition believed to be critical for pathogenicity. Luckner etal. (2009) now describe the structure of KasA, an enzyme involved in cell wall biosynthesis. 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

authors

• Sacchettini, James

published proceedings

• Structure

author list (cited authors)

• Swanson, S., Gokulan, K., & Sacchettini, J. C.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Swanson, Stephanie||Gokulan, Kuppan||Sacchettini, James C

publication date

• July 2009

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Structure  Journal

keywords

• 3-oxoacyl-(acyl-carrier-protein) Synthase
• Binding Sites
• Cell Wall
• Fatty Acids
• Models, Molecular
• Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
• Mycolic Acids
• Polyethylene Glycols
• Protein Binding
• Substrate Specificity

PubMed Central ID

• 19604470

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.str.2009.06.006

start page

• 914

end page

• 915

volume

• 17

issue

• 7

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2009.06.006