The Drosophila melanogaster ade5 gene encodes a bifunctional enzyme for two steps in the de novo purine synthesis pathway

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1239-1253

  O'Donnell, Allyson F ^a,c   Tiong, Stanley ^b,d   Nash, David ^b   Clark, Denise V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Department of Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURINE SYNTHESIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOXY-LYASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PURINES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034089031     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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