Genetic and molecular analysis of the temperature-sensitive mutant un-17 carrying a mutation in the gene encoding poly(A)-polymerase in Neurospora crassa

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 447-454

  Tanaka, Shuuitsu ^a   Takayanagi, Noriko ^a   Murasawa, Kennichi ^a   Ishii, Chizu ^a   Inoue, Hirokazu ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neurospora; Pleiotropic phenotype; Poly(A) polymerase; ts mutant; un 17

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA FRAGMENT; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH INHIBITION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHENOTYPE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; TEMPERATURE;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 39749090575     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.82.447     Document Type: Article

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