"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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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dihydropteroate Synthase" by people in Profiles.
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Treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in HIV-infected patients: a review. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2017 09; 15(9):873-892.
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Mapping sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in infected humans and in parasite populations in Africa. Sci Rep. 2017 08 07; 7(1):7389.
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Low prevalence of DHFR and DHPS mutations in Pneumocystis jirovecii strains obtained from a German cohort. Infection. 2017 Jun; 45(3):341-347.
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Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in Spanish HIV-infected patients in the combined antiretroviral therapy era: prevalence of dihydropteroate synthase mutations and prognostic factors of mortality. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 Sep; 62(1):34-43.