Cloning and functional analysis of the orotidine-5′-phosphate decarboxylase gene (PbrURA3) of the pathogenic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Yeast

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 739-743

  Reinoso, Cristina ^a   Sorais, Françoise ^b   Niño Vega, Gustavo A ^b   Fermiñán, Encarnación ^a   San Blas, Gioconda ^b   Domínguez, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Complementation; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; URA3

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GENE PRODUCT; GENOMIC DNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PLASMID DNA; POLYPEPTIDE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA PROBE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INTRON; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 23844546194     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1248     Document Type: Article

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