Gene sam1 encoding adenosylmethionine synthetase: Effects of its expression in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Yeast

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-10

  Hilti, Norma ^a   Gräub, Remo ^a   Jörg, Martin ^a   Arnold, Peter ^a   Schweingruber, Anne Marie ^a   Schweingruber, M Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adenosylmethionine synthetase; Methionine sensitive growth; SAM dependent enzymes; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; HAPLOIDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENES, FUNGAL; METHIONINE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0342615012     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(20000115)16:1<1::AID-YEA501>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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