Human molybdopterin synthase gene: Identification of a bicistronic transcript with overlapping reading frames

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 698-705

  Stallmeyer, B ^a,d   Drugeon, G ^c   Reiss, J ^b   Haenni, A L ^c   Mendel, R R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDOPTERIN; SULFITE OXIDASE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0033364822     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302295     Document Type: Article

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