Cloning and characterisation of the adenosyl phosphosulphate kinase gene from Aspergillus nidulans

Current Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 408-412

  Clarke, David L ^b   Newbert, Roger W ^a   Turner, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Allosteric inhibition; APS kinase; Aspergillus nidulans; ATP sulphurylase

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADENYLYLSULFATE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; METHIONINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0031452820     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050295     Document Type: Article

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