Pleiotropic phenotypes caused by an opal nonsense mutation in an essential gene encoding HMG-CoA reductase in fission yeast

Genes to Cells

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 759-771

  Fang, Yue ^a,b   Imagawa, Kiwamu ^a   Zhou, Xin ^a   Kita, Ayako ^c   Sugiura, Reiko ^c   Jaiseng, Wurentuya ^a   Kuno, Takayoshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CODON, NONSENSE; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PRAVASTATIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 66749182719     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2009.01308.x     Document Type: Article

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