The Neurospora crassa gene responsible for the cut and ovc phenotypes encodes a protein of the haloacid dehalogenase family

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 828-838

  Youssar, Loubna ^a   Schmidhauser, Thomas J ^b   Avalos, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; HALOACID; HALOACID DEHALOGENASE; PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AL 1 GENE; AL 2 GENE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CON 10 GENE; CUT GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; OVC GENE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WC 1 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAROTENOIDS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HYDROLASES; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 13444269393     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04424.x     Document Type: Article

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