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Mycobacterium tuberculosis PtkA is a novel protein tyrosine kinase whose substrate is PtpA.
The Biochemical journal - 13 May 2009
Bach Horacio, Wong Dennis, Av-Gay Yossef
Abstract excerpt
In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, signal transduction is mediated by 11 serine/threonine kinases, but no tyrosine kinases have been identified thus far. The protein encoded by the ORF (open reading frame) Rv2232 has been annotated as a member of the HAD (haloacid dehydrogenase-like hydrolase) superfamily, which includes phosphatases, phosphomanno- and phosphogluco-mutases, and haloacid dehydrogenases. In the present...
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