Cloning and molecular analysis of the Aspergillus terreus arg1 gene coding for an ornithine carbamoyltransferase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-212

  Ventura, Luisa ^a   Pérez González, José Antonio ^a   Ramón, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

arg1; Aspergillus terreus; General amino acid control; OCTase; Ornithine carbamoyltransferase

Indexed keywords

ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACIDS; ASPERGILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ASPERGILLUS TERREUS;

EID: 0343416806     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00077-3     Document Type: Article

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