Breaking it down...
Jul. 30th, 2016 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe stumbling block:
There is no translation suggested, but there is an English abbreviation: PPAT Mt
One more Google search, this time, for "PPAT Mt".
Curiously, the top hit says that "Ppat Mt" has a Facebook presence.
Yeah.... Right.
There are only a handful of hits, only one of which looks viable, but the expansion given (phosphoribosyl amidotransferase) fails the simple inspection test.
It was worth a try, but there's actually a more reliable method that requires one to have a smattering of knowledge as to the way such compound names are arranged.
The last part, transferase, is soild.
The first part, phosphoro-, is also solid. It is followed by something that starts with pantothen-.
The next "chunk" will probably be close to adenilyl (here, I'm mimicking the spelling of "vinyl"), but Google corrects me and shows a reference to adenylyl transferase.
So, let's see if a search for phosphoropantothenadenylyl transferase garners any hits with "tuberculosis" tacked on to the end of the query.
Joy, kind of. Nothing about tuberculosis, but...
Two hits, for phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase, from what appear to be legitimate sites.
Time to run with it, as it's the weekend, I am overloaded with translations, and daylight is burning! :)
фосфопантетеинаденилилтрансферазSurpringly, not in any dictionary that I own, but a search of the Runet finds the word, colocated with the words Mycobacterium tuberculosis (so I know I'm on the right track, because Mycobacterium tuberculosis appears right next to word I'm seeking).
There is no translation suggested, but there is an English abbreviation: PPAT Mt
One more Google search, this time, for "PPAT Mt".
Curiously, the top hit says that "Ppat Mt" has a Facebook presence.
Yeah.... Right.
There are only a handful of hits, only one of which looks viable, but the expansion given (phosphoribosyl amidotransferase) fails the simple inspection test.
It was worth a try, but there's actually a more reliable method that requires one to have a smattering of knowledge as to the way such compound names are arranged.
The last part, transferase, is soild.
The first part, phosphoro-, is also solid. It is followed by something that starts with pantothen-.
The next "chunk" will probably be close to adenilyl (here, I'm mimicking the spelling of "vinyl"), but Google corrects me and shows a reference to adenylyl transferase.
So, let's see if a search for phosphoropantothenadenylyl transferase garners any hits with "tuberculosis" tacked on to the end of the query.
Joy, kind of. Nothing about tuberculosis, but...
Two hits, for phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase, from what appear to be legitimate sites.
Time to run with it, as it's the weekend, I am overloaded with translations, and daylight is burning! :)
