Sensitivity to treatment with polyunsaturated fatty acids is a general characteristic of the ubiquinone-deficient yeast coq mutants

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL., 1997, Pages 121-127

  Poon, Wayne W ^a   Do, Thai Q ^a   Marbois, B Noelle ^a   Clarke, Catherine F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Coenzyme Q; coq mutation; Linolenic acid

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UBIQUINONE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030867418     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-2997(97)00004-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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