Nucleotide sequence of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe lys1+ gene and similarities of the lys1+ protein to peptide antibiotic synthetases

Yeast

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 479-484

  Bhattacherjee, Vasker ^a   Bhattacharjee, Jnanendra K ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aminoadipate reductase; lys1+ gene; Lysine biosynthesis; Peptide synthetase; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

AMINOADIPIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, FUNGAL; L-AMINOADIPATE-SEMIALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032579779     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19980330)14:5<479::AID-YEA236>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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