Saccharomyces kluyveri as a model organism to study pyrimidine degradation

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1209-1213

  Beck, Halfdan ^a   Dobritzsch, Doreen ^b   Piškur, Jure ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Nonconventional yeast; Nucleic acid precursors; Pyrimidine; Structure function relationship

Indexed keywords

PYRIMIDINE;

CATALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI; SHORT SURVEY; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID PRECURSORS; PYRIMIDINES; SACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA; LACHANCEA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI;

EID: 55349093988     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00442.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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