Cloning and molecular analysis of the bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase gene in the ciliated protozoan Paramecium tetraurelia

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 665-673

  Schlichtherle, I Martha ^a,b   Roos, David S ^a,c   Van Houten, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifunctional enzyme; Ciliate; Dihydrofolate reductase; Paramedium; Thymidylate synthase

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; MESSENGER RNA; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 0029878560     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050119     Document Type: Article

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