Identification of vancomycin resistance protein VanA as a D-alanine:D-alanine ligase of altered substrate specificity.

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Published in Biochemistry on February 26, 1991

Authors

T D Bugg1, S Dutka-Malen, M Arthur, P Courvalin, C T Walsh

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1: Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

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