Trifluoroleucine resistance and regulation of α-isopropyl malate synthase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 152-160

  Cavalieri, D ^a   Casalone, E ^b   Bendoni, B ^a   Fia, G ^a   Polsinelli, M ^a   Barberio, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

isopropyl malate synthase I; Regulation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Trifluoroleucine resistance

Indexed keywords

COENZYME A; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; LEUCINE; MALATE SYNTHASE; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; ENZYME REGULATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

2-ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COENZYME A; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; ZINC;

EID: 0032982287     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050952     Document Type: Article

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