Alanine: Glyoxylate aminotransferase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae-encoding gene AGX1 and metabolic significance

Yeast

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-73

  Schlösser, Thomas ^a,c   Gätgens, Cornelia ^a   Weber, Ulrike ^a   Stahmann, K Peter ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Fachhochschule Lausitz   (Germany)

^c Industrie GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alanine: glyoxylate aminotransferase; Amino acid metabolism; Fungi; Glycine biosynthesis; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ALANINE GLYOXYLATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; CARBON; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; GLUCOSE; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; PLASMID DNA; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; GLYCINE; GLYOXYLATES; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OROTIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSAMINASES;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0742272467     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1058     Document Type: Article

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