A dominant negative effect of eth-1r, a mutant allele of the Neurospora crassa S-adenosylmethionine synthetase-encoding gene conferring resistance to the methionine toxic analogue ethionine

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1455-1462

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHIONINE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ETHIONINE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EUKARYOTA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030482588     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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