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Vaccinia virus encodes an active thymidylate kinase that complements a cdc8 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 25 Oct 1991
Hughes S J, Johnston L H, de Carlos A, Smith G L
Abstract excerpt
A vaccinia virus open reading frame (ORF) previously predicted to encode thymidylate kinase (TmpK) is shown to encode an active enzyme. A copy of the ORF, generated by polymerase chain reaction, was cloned into an Escherichia coli inducible expression vector. Cell extracts of E. coli expressing the vaccinia gene contained high levels of TmpK activity, whereas extracts of cells without the TmpK gene did not. The...
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