The ylo-1 gene encodes an aldehyde dehydrogenase responsible for the last reaction in the Neurospora carotenoid pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1207-1220

  Estrada, Alejandro F ^a   Youssar, Loubna ^a   Scherzinger, Daniel ^b   Al Babili, Salim ^b   Avalos, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CAROTENOID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NEUROSPORAXANTHIN; PROTEIN YLO 1; XANTHINE DERIVATIVE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YLO 1 GENE;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

NEUROSPORA;

EID: 49249123034     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06349.x     Document Type: Article

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