The extremely halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii has two very different dihydrofolate reductases

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1493-1505

  Ortenberg, Ron ^a   Rozenblatt Rosen, Orit ^a,b   Mevarech, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; THYMIDINE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034021158     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01815.x     Document Type: Article

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