Cloning and chromosomal mapping of URA3 genes of Pichia farinosa and P. sorbitophila encoding orotidine-5′-phosphate decarboxylase

Yeast

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 905-912

  Suzuki, Chise ^a   Yoshida, Nao ^b   Okano, Etsuko ^a   Kawasumi, Toshiyuki ^b   Kashiwagi, Yutaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CHEF; Osmotolerant yeast; Pichia farinosa; Pichia sorbitophia; URA3

Indexed keywords

OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PICHIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; PICHIA; PICHIA FARINOSA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0042594423     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1017     Document Type: Article

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