Translation elongation factor 2 is encoded by a single essential gene in Candida albicans

Gene

Volumn 229, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 183-191

  Mendoza, Alfonso ^a   Serramía, María J ^a   Capa, Laura ^a   García Bustos, José F ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fungi; Promoter; Protein synthesis; Terminator; Yeast

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR 2; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGUS; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 2; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033580419     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00024-4     Document Type: Article

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