Characterisation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae ARO8 and ARO9 genes encoding aromatic aminotransferases I and II reveals a new aminotransferase subfamily

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 238-248

  Iraqui, I ^a   Vissers, S ^a   Cartiaux, M ^a   Urrestarazu, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aminotransferase subgroup I; Aminotransferase subgroup I subfamilies; Aromatic aminotransferase; Autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) element; General control of amino acid biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOADIPIC ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMMONIA; AROMATIC AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MINICHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSAMINATION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUBGROUP A;

EID: 0031884617     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050644     Document Type: Article

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