In vivo mutational analysis of highly conserved amino acid residues of the small subunit Cpalp of the Carbamylphosphate synthetase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Yeast

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1021-1028

  Bernard, Anne ^a   Erbs, Philippe ^a   Demuyter, Philippe ^a   Jund, Richard ^a  

^a Inst Rech Contre Cancers l'A   (France)

Author keywords

Carbamylphosphate synthetase; CPA1; Mutational analysis; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMINASE; HISTIDINE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM SULFATE; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYSTEINE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; PROLINE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030843519     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19970915)13:11<1021::AID-YEA158>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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