The favorable features of tryptophan synthase for proving Beadle and Tatum's one gene-one enzyme hypothesis

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 511-516

  Yanofsky, Charles ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; CARBON; CHYMOTRYPSIN; COAT PROTEIN; DNA; HEMOGLOBIN; INDOLE; INSULIN; LYSOZYME; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPSIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN SYNTHASE; VITAMIN;

CODON; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AUTOBIOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; TRYPTOPHAN SYNTHASE;

EID: 15544391009     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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