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A common mechanism for the biosynthesis of methoxy and cyclopropyl mycolic acids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis produces three classes of mycolic acids that differ primarily in the presence and nature of oxygen-containing substituents in the distal portion of the meromycolate branch. The methoxymycolate series has a methoxy group adjacent to a methyl branch, in addition to a cyclopr...

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Main Authors: Yuan, Ying, Barry, Clifton E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The National Academy of Sciences of the USA 1996
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC24005/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8917504
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