Functional analysis of multiple AUG codons in the transcripts of the STA2 glucoamylase gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-20

  Vivier, M A ^a   Sollitti, P ^b   Pretorius, I S ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucoamylases; Starch degradation; Translation initiation; Yeast

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN 1,4 ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; MUCIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CODON, INITIATOR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUCAN 1,4-ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032981304     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050936     Document Type: Article

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