Isolation and confirmation of function of the Coccidioides immitis URA5 (orotate phosphoribosyl transferase) gene

Gene

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 233-242

  Yu, Jieh Juen ^a   Zheng, Li ^b   Thomas, Pei W ^a   Szaniszlo, Paul J ^b   Cole, Garry T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

CDNA sequence; Coccidioides; Complementation; Genome; URA5

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; YEAST CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; COCCIDIOIDES; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0033590620     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00556-3     Document Type: Article

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