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Tuberculosis
Research on tuberculosis described by N. Kumar and colleagues
July 22nd, 2008
"Compared to eukaryotes, the occurrence of ''intrinsically disordered'' or ''natively unfolded'' proteins in prokaryotes has not been explored extensively. Here, we report the occurrence of an intrinsically disordered protein from the mesophilic human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis," scientists writing in the journal Proteins - Structure Function and Bioinformatics report. "The Histidine-tagged recombinant Rv3221c biotin-binding protein is intrinsically disordered at ambient and physiological growth temperatures as revealed by circular dichroism and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic studies. However, an increase in temperature induces a...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-22)
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