Analysis of a transketolase gene from Kluyveromyces lactis reveals that the yeast enzymes are more related to transketolases of prokaryotic origins than to those of higher eukaryotes

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-21

  Jacoby, Jörg J ^a   Heinisch, Jürgen J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate metabolism; Evolution; Kluyveromyces lactis; Transketolase

Indexed keywords

TRANSKETOLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KLUYVEROMYCES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PICHIA; PLASMIDS; RATS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSKETOLASE;

EUKARYOTA; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031039891     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050171     Document Type: Article

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