Identification of the GGPS1 genes encoding geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases from mouse and human

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids

Volumn 1437, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 333-340

  Kainou, Tomohiro ^a   Kawamura, Kei ^a   Tanaka, Katsunori ^a   Matsuda, Hideyuki ^a   Kawamukai, Makoto ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotenoid; Geranylgeranyl diphosphate; Isoprenoid

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; DNA; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE; ISOPRENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FARNESYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; GERANYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PANTOEA ANANATIS; PROKARYOTA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033602433     PISSN: 13881981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-1981(99)00028-1     Document Type: Article

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