Article
Molecular and genetic analyses of Drosophila Prat, which encodes the first enzyme of de novo purine biosynthesis.
Genetics - 1 Feb 1994
Clark D V
Abstract excerpt
The Drosophila Prat gene encodes phosphoribosylamidotransferase (PRAT), the enzyme that performs the first committed step of the de novo purine nucleotide biosynthesis pathway. Using information from amino acid sequence alignments of PRAT from other organisms, a polymerase chain reaction-based approach was employed to clone Prat. Amino acid sequence alignment of Drosophila PRAT with PRAT from bacteria, yeast, and...
Topics
- Amidophosphoribosyltransferase
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Genes, Insect
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Purine Nucleosides