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SUBMITTER: Temel DB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3626743 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Temel Deniz B DB Dutta Kaushik K Ghose Ranajeet R
Biomolecular NMR assignments 20121208 1
Protein tyrosine kinases in bacteria are structurally and functionally distinct from their eukaryotic counterparts. The largest family of bacterial tyrosine kinases, the BY-kinase family, is highly conserved in Gram-negative and Gram-positive species, and plays a central role in biofilm and capsule formation. In Escherichia coli the BY-kinase, Wzc, is a critical component of the machinery responsible for the synthesis and export of the exo-polysaccharide colanic acid, a key constituent of biofil ...[more]