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Structure of vaccinia virus thymidine kinase in complex with dTTP: insights for drug design

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Background: Development of countermeasures to bioterrorist threats such as those posed by the smallpox virus (variola), include vaccination and drug development. Selective activation of nucleoside analogues by virus-encoded thymidine (dThd) kinases (TK) represents one of the most successful strategies for antiviral chemotherapy as demonstrated for anti-herpes drugs. Vaccinia virus TK is a close orthologue of variola TK but also shares a relatively high sequence identity to human type 2 TK (hT...

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10.1186/1472-6807-6-22

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University of Oxford
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MSD
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NDM
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Human Genetics Wt Centre
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Huddinge University Hospital (Stockholm)
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Karolinska Institute
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Huddinge University Hospital (Stockholm)
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Karolinska Institute
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K.U. Leuven
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Rega Institute for Medical Research
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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MSD
Department:
NDM
Sub department:
Human Genetics Wt Centre
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BioMed Central
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6
Article number:
22
Publication date:
2006-01-01
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1472-6807
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English
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2008-09-04

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