Structural and transcriptional analysis of the pyrABCN, pyrD and pyrF genes in Aspergillus nidulans and the evolutionary origin of fungal dihydroorotases

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 599-611

  Aleksenko, Alexei ^a   Liu, Wenguang ^a   Gojkovic, Zoran ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^a   Piskur, Jure ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; DIHYDROOROTASE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PYRIMIDINE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; UREASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PYRIMIDINE METABOLISM; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CROSSING OVER; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE-HYDROLYZING); CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIHYDROOROTASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHYLOGENY; PYRIMIDINES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032781877     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01507.x     Document Type: Article

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