Arylamine N-acetyltransferases in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes: A survey of public databases

Current Drug Metabolism

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 628-660

  Vagena, Eirini ^a   Fakis, Giannoulis ^a   Boukouvala, Sotiria ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arylamine N acetyltransferase; Eukaryotes; Fungi; Gene nomenclature; Non human NAT database; Phylogenetic tree; Prokaryotes; Taxonomy database

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE 1; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE 1A; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE 2; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIA; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FUNGI; GENOME; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 52449114745     PISSN: 13892002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920008785821729     Document Type: Review

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