Fighting Tuberculosis – Structural Studies of Three Mycobacterial Proteins
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Castell, A. 2008. Fighting Tuberculosis – Structural Studies of Three Mycobacterial Proteins. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 567. 94 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7325-9. This thesis presents the cloning, purification, crystallization, and structural studies of two unknown proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and of an aminotransferase from Mycobacterium smegmatis. Structural knowledge of these proteins is of highest interest for structure-based drug design, which is one of the approaches that can be used in order to fight
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