Cloning, and molecular characterization of the GCV1 gene encoding the glycine cleavage T-protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Gene

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-20

  McNeil, J Bryan ^a,b,d   Zhang, Fang rong ^a   Taylor, Brian V ^a   Sinclair, David A ^c   Pearlman, Ronald E ^b   Bognar, Andrew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d AMGEN INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Folate coenzyme; Mitochondria; Serine; Serine hydroxymethyltransferase; Yeast

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELL ENZYME; DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCINE; GLYCINE CLEAVAGE SYSTEM; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; HAPLOIDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFERASES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031579469     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00670-1     Document Type: Article

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