A Second Pathway to Degrade Pyrimidine Nucleic Acid Precursors in Eukaryotes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 380, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 656-666

  Andersen, Gorm ^a,b   Björnberg, Olof ^a   Polakova, Silvia ^a   Pynyaha, Yuriy ^a   Rasmussen, Anna ^a   Møller, Kasper ^b   Hofer, Anders ^c   Moritz, Thomas ^d   Sandrini, Michael Paolo Bastner ^a,b   Merico, Anna Maria ^e   Compagno, Concetta ^e   Åkerlund, Hans Erik ^a   Gojković, Zoran ^b   Piškur, Jure ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 hydroxypropionic acid; metabolic pathways; nucleic acid precursors; uracil degradation; urea

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIHYDROURACIL; HYDRACRYLIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID PRECURSOR; PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEIC ACID PRECURSOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; URACIL; URACIL PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; UREA; URIDINE PHOSPHATE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI;

EID: 45649084019     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.05.029     Document Type: Article

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