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Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications
Volume 2011, Article ID 306465, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/306465
Research Article

Selectivity of Inhibition of N-Succinyl-l,l-Diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase in Bacteria: The product of dapE-gene Is Not the Target of l-Captopril Antimicrobial Activity

Narasimha Rao Uda and Marc Creus

Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Spitalstrasse 51, Basel 4056, Switzerland

Received 22 December 2010; Accepted 21 January 2011

Academic Editor: Zheng Dong

Copyright © 2011 Narasimha Rao Uda and Marc Creus. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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