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 et al. (2009) now describe the structure of KasA, an enzyme involved in cell wall biosynthesis. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

authors

• Sacchettini, James

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 BV  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