Eli Lilly and Company

Paul Robert Rosteck, Jr

Paul Luther Skatrud

Pamela Kay Rockey

Robert Brown Peery

Patti J Treadway

Jo Ann Hoskins

Q May Wang

Franklin H Norris

Michele Louise Young Bellido

Chyun-Yeh Earnest Wu

Bradley Stuart DeHoff

The invention provides isolated nucleic acid compounds encoding FtsZ of Also provided are vectors and transformed host cells for expressing the encoded protein, and a method for identifying compounds that bind and/or inhibit said protein.

Streptococcus pneumoniae gene sequence FtsZ

The invention provides isolated nucleic acid compounds encoding a novel SAM synthetase of,Also provided are vectors and transformed heterologous host cells for expressing the SAM synthetase and a method for preparing S-adenosylmethionine from recombinant host cells transformed with the SAM synthetase gene.

SAM operon

The invention provides isolated nucleic acid compounds encoding the stem peptide biosynthetic gene murI of,Also provided are vectors and transformed heterologous host cells for expressing the MurI enzyme product and a method for identifying compounds that inhibit stem peptide biosynthesis.

Muri protein from Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Paul Robert Rosteck, Jr