Analysis of al-2 mutations in neurospora

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Díaz Sánchez, Violeta ^a   Estrada, Alejandro F ^a,c   Trautmann, Danika ^b   Limón, M Carmen ^a   Al Babili, Salim ^b   Avalos, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AL 2 ENZYME; APO 4' LYCOPENOIC ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENE DESATURASE; CAROTENOID; DIAPOLYCOPENE; GAMMA CAROTENE; GENE PRODUCT; LYCOPENE; NEUROSPORAXANTHIN; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AL 2 GENE; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; ILLUMINATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENTATION; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STOP CODON; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 79960446260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021948     Document Type: Article

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