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Allosteric Activation of Trypanosomatid Deoxyhypusine Synthase by a Catalytically Dead Paralog

Polyamine biosynthesis is a key drug target in African trypanosomes. The “resurrection drug” eflornithine (difluoromethylornithine), which is used clinically to treat human African trypanosomiasis, inhibits the first step in polyamine (spermidine) biosynthesis, a highly regulated pathway in most euk...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Suong, Jones, Deuan C., Wyllie, Susan, Fairlamb, Alan H., Phillips, Margaret A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3663545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23525104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M113.461137

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