The tigA gene is a transcriptional fusion of glycolytic genes encoding triose-phosphate isomerase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in Oomycota

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 6816-6823

  Unkles, Shiela E ^a,e   Logsdon Jr , John M ^b,f   Robison, Keith ^c   Kinghorn, James R ^d   Duncan, James M ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GLYCOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOMYCETES; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ACHLYA; EUKARYOTA; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PYTHIALES; PYTHIUM; SAPROLEGNIA; SAPROLEGNIALES;

EID: 0030693903     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.21.6816-6823.1997     Document Type: Article

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