Moonlighting function of glutamate racemase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: racemization and DNA gyrase inhibition are two independent activities of the enzyme.

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Published in Microbiology on September 01, 2008

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Sugopa Sengupta1, Soumitra Ghosh, Valakunja Nagaraja

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1: Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.

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