Abstract
The enzyme catalyzing the epimerization at position 2' of dihydroneopterin triphosphate was purified by a factor of about 10,000 from cell extract of Escherichia coli. The cognate gene was cloned, sequenced, expressed, and mapped to kb 2427 on the E. coli chromosome.
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