"Ligases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A class of enzymes that catalyze the formation of a bond between two substrate molecules, coupled with the hydrolysis of a pyrophosphate bond in ATP or a similar energy donor. (Dorland, 28th ed) EC 6.
| Descriptor ID |
D008025
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.464
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| Concept/Terms |
Ligases- Ligases
- Synthetases
- Synthetase
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ligases" by people in Profiles.
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Lin DI, Diehl JA. Mechanism of cell-cycle control: ligating the ligase. Trends Biochem Sci. 2004 Sep; 29(9):453-5.
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Bartee E, Mansouri M, Hovey Nerenberg BT, Gouveia K, Früh K. Downregulation of major histocompatibility complex class I by human ubiquitin ligases related to viral immune evasion proteins. J Virol. 2004 Feb; 78(3):1109-20.
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Mansouri M, Bartee E, Gouveia K, Hovey Nerenberg BT, Barrett J, Thomas L, Thomas G, McFadden G, Früh K. The PHD/LAP-domain protein M153R of myxomavirus is a ubiquitin ligase that induces the rapid internalization and lysosomal destruction of CD4. J Virol. 2003 Jan; 77(2):1427-40.
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Gemmill RM, Bemis LT, Lee JP, Sozen MA, Baron A, Zeng C, Erickson PF, Hooper JE, Drabkin HA. The TRC8 hereditary kidney cancer gene suppresses growth and functions with VHL in a common pathway. Oncogene. 2002 May 16; 21(22):3507-16.
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Satake S, Clark N, Rimland D, Nolte FS, Tenover FC. Detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in fecal samples by PCR. J Clin Microbiol. 1997 Sep; 35(9):2325-30.
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Raghunathan K, Schmitz JC, Priest DG. Disposition of leucovorin and its metabolites in dietary folic acid-deplete mice - comparison between tumor, liver, and plasma. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 1997; 40(2):126-30.
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Priest DG, Bunni MA, Romero-Fredes LR, Schmitz JC, Whiteley JM. A sensitive radioenzymatic assay for (S)-5-formyltetrahydrofolate. Anal Biochem. 1991 Aug 01; 196(2):284-9.