"Dihydropteroate Synthase" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of dihydropteroate from p-aminobenzoic acid and dihydropteridine-hydroxymethyl-pyrophosphate. EC 2.5.1.15.
| Descriptor ID |
D004094
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.913.225.300
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| Concept/Terms |
Dihydropteroate Synthase- Dihydropteroate Synthase
- Synthase, Dihydropteroate
- Dihydropteroate Synthetase
- Synthetase, Dihydropteroate
- Dihydropteroate Pyrophosphorylase
- Pyrophosphorylase, Dihydropteroate
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dihydropteroate Synthase" by people in Profiles.
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Yoon C, Subramanian A, Chi A, Crothers K, Meshnick SR, Taylor SM, Beard CB, Jarlsberg LG, Lawrence GG, Avery M, Swartzman A, Fong S, Roth B, Huang L. Dihydropteroate synthase mutations in Pneumocystis pneumonia: impact of applying different definitions of prophylaxis, mortality endpoints and mutant in a single cohort. Med Mycol. 2013 Aug; 51(6):568-75.
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Mu?oz C, Zuluaga A, Restrepo A, Tob?n A, Cano LE, Gonzalez A. Molecular diagnosis and detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii DHPS and DHFR genotypes in respiratory specimens from Colombian patients. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2012 Mar; 72(3):204-13.
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Alam MT, de Souza DK, Vinayak S, Griffing SM, Poe AC, Duah NO, Ghansah A, Asamoa K, Slutsker L, Wilson MD, Barnwell JW, Udhayakumar V, Koram KA. Selective sweeps and genetic lineages of Plasmodium falciparum drug -resistant alleles in Ghana. J Infect Dis. 2011 Jan 15; 203(2):220-7.
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Huang L, Welsh DA, Miller RF, Beard CB, Lawrence GG, Fox M, Swartzman A, Bensley MR, Carbonnet D, Davis JL, Chi A, Yoo BJ, Jones JL. Pneumocystis jirovecii dihydropteroate synthase gene mutations and human immunodeficiency virus-associated Pneumocystis pneumonia. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2006; 53 Suppl 1:S114-6.