eth-1, the Neurospora crassa locus encoding S-adenosylmethionine synthetase: Molecular cloning, sequence analysis and in vivo overexpression

Genetics

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 789-800

  Mautino, Mario R ^a   Barra, José L ^a   Rosa, Alberto L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSINE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT; HUMANS; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029944228     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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