The iscS gene deficiency affects the expression of pyrimidine metabolism genes

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 372, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 407-411

  Mihara, Hisaaki ^a   Hidese, Ryota ^a   Yamane, Masahiro ^a   Kurihara, Tatsuo ^a   Esaki, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cysteine desulfurase; Cytidine deaminase; Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase; iscS; Pyrimidine metabolism; Uridine phosphorylase

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DIHYDROPYRIDINE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOSIDASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE; URIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; YEIA PROTEIN; YEIT PROTEIN; YEIT YEIA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; ISCS GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DIHYDROURACIL DEHYDROGENASE (NAD+); DIHYDROURACIL DEHYDROGENASE (NADP); DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PYRIMIDINES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; URIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 44749092175     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.05.019     Document Type: Article

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