Isolation and sequencing of a plant cDNA encoding a bifunctional methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase:methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase protein

Pteridines

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 171-177

  Chen, Liangfu ^a,c   Nargang, Frank E ^a   Cossins, Edwin A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Phoenix Intl Life Sciences Inc ^*  (Canada)

^c MDS Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bifunctional protein; cDNA; Methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase; Methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase; Pisum sativum L.

Indexed keywords

METHENYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLOHYDROLASE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; PLANT DNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEA; PLANT; PLANT CELL; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; PISUM SATIVUM; SATIVUM;

EID: 0033497097     PISSN: 09334807     EISSN: 21954720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/pteridines.1999.10.4.171     Document Type: Article

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