Characterization of the Saccaromyces cerevisiae FCY1 gene encoding cytosine deaminase and its homologue FCA1 of Candida albicans

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Erbs, P ^a   Exinger, F ^a   Jund, R ^a  

^a IRCAD   (France)

Author keywords

Cytosine deaminase; FCA1; FCY1; Pyrimidine salvage pathway

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CYTOSINE; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; FLUCYTOSINE; PYRIMIDINE; DEAMINASE; FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMID; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSINE; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; DNA, FUNGAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUCYTOSINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEOSIDE DEAMINASES; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030614516     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050169     Document Type: Article

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