Isolation of the Aspergillus nidulans sudD gene and its human homologue

Gene

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 323-329

  Anaya, Paul ^a   Evans, Susan C ^b   Dai, Cuiping ^a   Lozano, Guillermina ^b   May, Gregory S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Evolution; Fungi; Suppressor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN; SERINE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME 18Q; DATA BASE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARCHAEA; ASPERGILLUS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; HOMO SAPIENS; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 19244376200     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00115-2     Document Type: Article

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