Salvage pathway of pyrimidine synthesis: Divergence of substrate specificity in two related species of teleostean fish

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 269-274

  Zupanc, Günther K H ^a,b   Horschke, Ingrid ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

5 bromo 2' deoxyuridine; Apteronotus leptorhynchus; Eigenmannia sp.; gymnotiformes; nucleoside transporters; nucleotide synthesis; salvage pathway; thymidine; thymidine kinase; 3H thymidine autoradiography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FISH; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALIA; APTERONOTUS LEPTORHYNCHUS; EIGENMANNIA SP.; GYMNOTIFORMES; NEMICHTHYS; TELEOST FISH; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029763609     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(96)00033-8     Document Type: Article

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