A non-stop antisense reading frame in the grp78 gene of Neurospora crassa is homologous to the Achlya klebsiana NAD-gdh gene but is not being transcribed

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 307-312

  Monnerjahn, Christian ^a   Techel, Dieter ^a   Mohamed, Salaheldien Ali ^a   Rensing, Ludger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisense reading frame; Glucose regulated protein; Heat shock protein; NAD dependent glutamate dehydrogenase Neurospora crassa

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OOMYCETES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033953625     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00651-5     Document Type: Article

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