A General Strategy for the Discovery of Metabolic Pathways: d-Threitol, l-Threitol, and Erythritol Utilization in Mycobacterium smegmatis.
Huang, H., Carter, M.S., Vetting, M.W., Al-Obaidi, N., Patskovsky, Y., Almo, S.C., Gerlt, J.A.(2015) J Am Chem Soc 137: 14570-14573
- PubMed: 26560079 
- DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b08968
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4RS3, 4RSM - PubMed Abstract: 
We describe a general integrated bioinformatic and experimental strategy to discover the in vitro enzymatic activities and in vivo functions (metabolic pathways) of uncharacterized enzymes discovered in microbial genome projects using the ligand specificities of the solute binding proteins (SBPs) for ABC transporters ...