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Nitrogen metabolite repression of arginase, ornithine transaminase and allantoinase in a conditional ethionine-resistant mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with low activity of catabolic NAD-specific glutamate dehydrogenase

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Middelhoven, W.J., Hoogkamer-te Niet, M.C. Nitrogen metabolite repression of arginase, ornithine transaminase and allantoinase in a conditional ethionine-resistant mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with low activity of catabolic NAD-specific glutamate dehydrogenase. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 48, 417–432 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00448414

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