The acuH gene of Aspergillus nidulans, required for growth on acetate and long-chain fatty acids, encodes a putative homologue of the mammalian carnitine/acylcarnitine carrier

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 171, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 386-396

  De Lucas, J Ramón ^a   Domínguez, Ana I ^a   Valenciano, Susana ^a   Turner, Geoffrey ^b   Laborda, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetate; Acetyl CoA transport; AcuH; Aspergillus nidulans; Carnitine carrier; Colt; Dif 1; Fatty acids; YOR100C

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACYLCARNITINE; CARNITINE; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACETATES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARNITINE; CARNITINE ACYLTRANSFERASES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA; FATTY ACIDS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARACHNIDA; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032980210     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050725     Document Type: Article

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