Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) carbamoylphosphate synthetase gene structure records the deep lineage of plants

Gene

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 105-114

  Zhou, Zongmin ^a   Metcalf, Anthony E ^a   Lovatt, Carol J ^a   Hyman, Bradley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine metabolism; Evolution; Gene structure; Pyrimidine metabolism

Indexed keywords

CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

ALFALFA; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIMIDINE METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE-HYDROLYZING); DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033968396     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00552-1     Document Type: Article

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