Identification of a putative methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase by sequence analysis of a 6.8 kb DNA fragment of yeast chromosome VII

Yeast

Volumn 12, Issue 10 B, 1996, Pages 1047-1051

  Tizon, Belen ^a   Rodríguez Torres, Ana M ^a   Rodríguez Belmonte, Esther ^a   Cadahia, Jose L ^a   Cerdan, Esperanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromosome VII; Genome sequencing; Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; SCS3; SUP44

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2);

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029839313     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0061(199609)12:10b<1047::aid-yea991>3.0.co;2-n     Document Type: Article

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