Characterization of a branched-chain amino-acid aminotransferase from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Yeast

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 189-194

  Eden, Amir ^a   Benvenisty, Nissim ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aminotransferase; Branched chain amino acids; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID AMINOTRANSFERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 0032579183     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19980130)14:2<189::AID-YEA210>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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