Mapping and expression of a bifunctional thymidylate synthase, dihydrofolate reductase gene from maize

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 733-739

  Cox, Kevin ^a,b   Robertson, Dominique ^b   Fites, Roger ^b  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifunctional enzymes; Dihydrofolate reductase; DNA synthesis; Endoreduplication; Maize; Thymidylate synthase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CDNA LIBRARY; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CLONED GENE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT GENETICS; RNA ANALYSIS; THYMIDINE PHOSPHATE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; RNA, PLANT; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033369958     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006324328355     Document Type: Article

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