Leucine biosynthesis in fungi: Entering metabolism through the back door

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-15

  Kohlhaw, Gunter B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE; 3 ISOPROPYLMALATE DEHYDROGENASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; ISOENZYME; ISOPROPYLMALATE ISOMERASE; LEUCINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CANDIDA MALTOSA; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FUNGAL STRAIN; HANSENULA POLYMORPHA; KLUYVEROMYCES MARXIANUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHANEROCHAETE; PICHIA ANOMALA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

2-ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE; 3-ISOPROPYLMALATE DEHYDROGENASE; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CANDIDA; CANDIDA MALTOSA; FUNGI; KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES MARXIANUS; NEOSPORA; PHANEROCHAETE; PICHIA; PICHIA ANGUSTA; PICHIA ANOMALA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

EID: 0037338355     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.67.1.1-15.2003     Document Type: Review

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