Rescuing a dysfunctional homologue of a yeast glycyl-tRNA synthetase gene

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1182-1187

  Chen, Shun Jia ^a   Lee, Chih Ying ^a   Lin, Szu Ting ^a   Wang, Chien Chia ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA HOMOLOG; GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

AMINOACYLATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE FUSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC STABILITY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

GLYCINE-TRNA LIGASE; PSEUDOGENES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 81555196382     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb200240a     Document Type: Article

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